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ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and the certification authority of the International Computer Driving License program in the Gulf States, has commented on the 2010 UN eGovernment Readiness Survey, which showed that GCC countries has maintained leadership in eGovernment readiness among Arab peers.

The Foundation has confirmed that the growing efforts by GCC governments to promote digital transformation and literacy has helped further enhance the region's collective ranking in the 2010 UN eGovernment Readiness Survey, which presented various roles for e-government in addressing the global financial crisis. Bahrain and the UAE occupied the top two rankings respectively among Arab countries in the survey, followed by Kuwait at third, Saudi Arabia at fifth, Qatar at sixth and Oman at eighth.

Relationships with governments are often a top-down affair, a one-way street with citizens on the receiving end of public services often designed with neither their input nor their needs in mind. So it is a pleasant surprise when citizens take centre stage and governments go out of their way to make their e-government programmes more “citizen-tailored”.

The heads of e-government entities in the six GCC countries gathered at a conference in Muscat last month to discuss trends, obstacles, experiences and best practices in e-government with experts and scholars from international organisations including the UN and the World Economic Forum.

The 1st Gulf e-Government conference, organised by the Oman Information Technology Authority (ITA), has put forward a number of recommendations. The three-day conference, which concluded under the auspices of Dr Mohammed bin Ali al Wahaibi, Communications Under-Secretary at the Oman Transport and Communications Ministry, recommended creating practical framework on multiple levels and in different fields to exchange regional expertise and benefit from the best international practices through organising similar meetings, specialised workshops and Gulf e-government awards.

The CEO of eGovernment Authority in Bahrain Mohammed Al Qaed participated in the sixth meeting of the Gulf eGovernment Committee in Muscat, Oman, after the completion of the GCC Conference, exhibition and awards.

The meeting was attended by the executives of GCC eGovernment programs, and headed by Abdul-Latif Alsarea, Deputy General Manager, Assistant Undersecretary for National Projects in Kuwait.

Participants in the first-ever GCC e-Government Conference hosted by Muscat which opened on Monday, agreed, among others, the holding of a GCC conference to discuss the challenges facing the e-Government process, besides exchanging expertise and ideas and coping with the latest developments in the communications and information technology field.

Saudi Arabia’s participation in this event, which continues for three days, comes through the working paper submitted by Eng. Ali Al-Soma as well as the nomination of a number of government agencies’ projects to compete for the conference’s five awards: e-Services, e-Content, e-Maturity; e-Economy and e-Project.

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