The one-day meeting witnessed participation by directors of e-Government programs and authorities in GCC countries. They reviewed a GCC e-Government strategic draft, which was prepared by a work team via a two-day workshop in the Qatari capital.
In a press statement, Hassan Jassim Al-Sayed, ictQatar Assistant Secretary-General of Information Technology Sector, said, following the meeting, that the guidelines were based on recommendations of the GCC E-Governments' Ministerial Committee meeting last March.
Al-Sayed noted that the guidelines would support e-Government programs in GCC countries, enhance its efficiency to attain social and economic development in each country, and guarantee mutual projects and initiatives that would benefit GCC citizens.
Moreover, he pointed out that such a meeting, on setting strategic guidelines to improve e-Government programs in GCC countries, would be held every five years in order to cope with the latest and recent developments and practices of the e-Government field.
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Quelle/Source: Kuwait News Agency, 24.05.2012