Ali Al-Sharida, director-general of the Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT), made the remarks during a symposium held today at the Kuwaiti Ministry of Defence Development Center.
"It is not impossible to put the e-government project in place in spite of stumbling blocks ahead due to the instant administrative condition," he said.
However, the CAIT is seeking to put a package in force aiming to improve the level of services at all cabinet ministries, Al-Sharida added.
Unfortunately, there are no channels of coordination among the ministries, a situation which poses impediments to the development and revamp of work at all state ministries, he said.
Concerning technological agreements hammered out between Kuwaiti ministries and their counterparts in several other countries, the Kuwaiti official said his agency had not approached for abolishing such deals, rather it recommended that they should be deemed a springboard for the e-government scheme.
Meanwhile, he stressed the importance of the private sector's role in overhauling state services, believing that the government could not do without this sector any more by virtue of its remarkable growth over recent years.
This requires a sustained partnership between the public and private sectors.
An agreement has been recently clinched between Kuwait and Singapore on how to tap the latter's fruitful experiment in the introduction of electronic services at state authorities and establishments with a view to wiping out bureaucracy, he concluded.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Kuna
Quelle/Source: Kuwait Times, 04.06.2007
