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Three of the six GCC members are among the Top 30 global achievers

Interestingly enough, there are wide differences among the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states in regard to their performance on the “Network Readiness Index”. To put it more simply, the extent of their technological readiness.

At least, this was the judgment in the “Global Information Technology Report 2014” issued by the World Economic Forum in partnership with INSEAD, the business school, and Cornell University.

Read more: GCC is tech-savvy but needs human capital

A key organisation that promotes digital skills and cyber safety in the Gulf, has called for internet charges to be reduced in the region to encourage a higher take-up of smart services.

ICDL GCC Foundation said lower prices were important to broaden the adoption of Smart Government services, launched recently in a number of GCC states.

Read more: GCC: Gulf states urged to lower internet charges

he Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) announced on Saturday hosting of the joint meeting between the executive committee for e-Government and committee of undersecretaries of ministries of communications and information technology, and the 13th meeting of the executive committee for e-Government in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).

The two meetings will be held on March 9 and 10, 2014, CAIT said in a press statement, adding that Kuwait will be hosting the two meetings due to its current presidency term of GCC this year.

Read more: CAIT to host two meetings on GCC e-Government

Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT) Director General Abdullateef Al-Suraye applauded formation of a GCC ministerial committee on e-government as indicative of interest of GCC leaders in spreading electronic services across their countries.

The committee, made up of chiefs of the e-government agencies, works to improve the e-services for the citizens of and expatriates in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, Al-Suraye said Sunday.

Read more: GCC countries interested in e-gov't - CAIT chief

GCC states are keen on setting a firm foundation for Gulf e-government and Information Technology cooperation with the objective of conflating all the states' e-government systems into one network, said an expert here on Tuesday.

Director of the Central Apparatus for Information Technology in Kuwait, Abdullatif Al-Serayea, told reporters here on the sidelines of a GCC meeting on e-government and IT, that the meeting would result in ideas that would be further probed into in another meeting set for next March.

Read more: Meeting seeks one e-gov't network for all GCC states

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