The Minister, Tarek Mitri said the challenge of modernising the public sector was great, and there was a lot to learn from the private sector and academia.
“We have to be able to take advantage of the experience of people in the academic community,” Mr Mitri said.
The Government had reiterated in a policy statement some general principles about efficiency, accountability, transparency and the need to have a human resources policy.
Mr Mitri said the 2010 Budget was late because the Government wanted to make sure that some of the statements about e-government, a knowledge-based economy and the rest were not simply principles.
“We want them to find their way into the Budget, and into concrete Ministerial programs and priorities,” he said.
The Minister’s remarks came during the opening of the Eighth International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The meeting was attended by Government officials, bankers and academics from over 30 countries.
A speaker at the conference, Associate Professor Ibrahim Osman, called on the Government to establish a center aimed at improving decision-making on research and development.
He said the average spending on research and development in the region constituted only 0.2 per cent of gross domestic product while internationally it was 2.5 per cent.
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Quelle/Source: PS News, 15.06.2010
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