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