More and more companies are starting to use the fast and easy e-services provided by the Invest Easy online portal (investeasy.gov.om).
The new secure portal enables investors to complete their company registration process online in less than three minutes. In addition to starting a new company, the portal also enables existing businesses to manage their interactions with the government.
The Invest Easy project is an inter-governmental initiative led by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI) and the Information Technology Authority (ITA).
The portal has been developed by Nortal, a press release said. “Our goal is to create services that provide a meaningful impact on the communities in which we operate in,” said Peeter Smitt, business area director, Nortal. “The new commercial registration service in the Invest Easy portal is a prime example of this in action. We are not merely programming the software and translating a paper service to digital. We are making the whole registration process less bureaucratic, faster and more transparent than ever before.”
“In the first six months of the new commercial registration service, over 12,000 new companies were registered. Out of these over 1,000 registrations were completed online and the service is gaining more popularity each month. In September alone there were nearly 400 online registrations, which amounted to 16.7 per cent of total registrations,” Smitt added.
In many countries, government e-services have already proven to be an effective way of saving time for the people and reducing public costs. Nortal is using the world’s best practices for developing it e-solutions.
For the Invest Easy portal, the experiences from building the Estonian Business Register and Company Registration Portal were used as the foundation. Estonian e-services are world famous and have earned several awards. When building Invest Easy, Nortal not only localised these processes, to suit the needs of Omani business environment, but also significantly upgraded them.
Invest Easy is leading the way in building an easy, transparent and sustainable business environment where companies can last for generations and bring prosperity to the sultanate and its people. They used to hold the world record for registering a new company that was done in 18 minutes. Now that record has long been beaten by Oman, where the fastest new company registration was done in under three minutes.
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Quelle/Source: Muscat Daily, 12.11.2015
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