“The encyclopedia will include all rules and regulations in the Kingdom that were issued through royal decrees and ministerial decisions,” said Mamdouh Ba-Owaidan, the center’s director.
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Chief of Intelligence Prince Miqren bin Abdul Aziz said Saudi Arabia has prepared a national strategy for communication and information technology while chairing the first session of the National e-transaction Conference which was opened in Riyadh on Sunday.
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The conference, in which more than 60 national and international speakers are participating, is intended to pave the way for e-government in an integrated environment through the e-government national portal named Yesser. This will enable citizens and expatriates to download data from the Internet.
The initiative, dubbed Yesser (Arabic for “Simplify”), aims to make Saudi society more digitally literate and to streamline government bureaucracy.
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In an exclusive interview with Arab News, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Orainy, adviser to the minister of communications and information technology, and Ali S. Al-Soma, the minister’s adviser for IT and director general of the e-government program, said the e-government portal would allow both citizens and expatriates to access government information on the Internet.
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