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For the first time in Kuwait, services offered by eight state institutions would be available for the public through automated systems and the internet as part of the shift towards e-government at the Info-Connect 2005 exhibition.

Secretary General of the technical apparatus in charge of automation of state services Abdellatif Al-Sraye told KUNA Monday that automated services by the ministries of interior, education, justice, and health as well as the Civil Service Commission, the Public Authority for Civil Information, Kuwait Municipality and Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) are now available through the state's e-services website.

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Abdullah, Minister of Communications, Planning and Minister of State for Administrative Development has stressed the importance of combatting computer-related illiteracy. The Minister mentioned in the preface he wrote for the second edition of a special publication on Kuwait's electronic government (e-government) that eradication of such an illiteracy will lay the groundwork for computerizing and mechanizing government projects in Kuwait.

Officials in the private sector have stressed the importance of their sector's role in e-government projects, either through setting up the project or by providing electronic services to the public. The Director-General of Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), Saad Al-Barak, said e-government is a computer project which could succeed or fail just like other computer projects. "Manual work should be reduced to give computers the responsibility and increase production. This is why we should restructure government institutes before launching e-government," Al-Barak said. He stressed many services must be handed over to the private sector, since it is not only a matter of computers, but a matter of competition to provide the best services at the lowest prices possible.

Legal consultants agree the use of Internet technology in the government work (e-govt) calls for new legislation, which accommodates the project, in addition to the amendment of certain unified laws.

These comments were made to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Friday by a member of the central technical committee and also the chairperson of the legislation team, Adel Al-Khudhari, and the Assistant Director of the Kuwait Institute of Judicial and Legal Studies Adel Bouresly.

The government plans to issue visit visas to businessmen and other visitors via the Internet beginning from October 2003, says Al-Rai Al-Aam daily quoting a reliable source from the Ministry of Interior. "This vital project is being launched to coincide with the start of the e-government conference, which will be held under the patronage of the Prime Minister, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah," the source added.

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