Cabinet seeks implementation of e-government project countrywide’; Move to spike IT, communications sector: Al-Sherida
The Kuwaiti Cabinet is working on activating the road map of electronic government, said director general of Central Organization for Information Technology (COIT) Ali Al-Sherida on Monday. It will offer more material and moral support to the IT and communications sector, he said in the opening ceremony of the third Kuwait Exhibition of IT and Communications. The event is organized by Connection International Company in the exhibition center here. The COIT is formed under the Amiri Decree No 266 for 2006 and is tasked with laying out policies and plans for IT on the national level and supervising the e-government project, Al-Sherida said. It is also tasked with initiating the state electronic gateway and the Kuwait Information Network (KIN) as well as training the IT cadres.
The first stage of KIN aims to connect the government networks while the second stage will connect the private sector and individual ones to facilitate and accelerate the exchange of information, messages and documents efficiently and in privacy, Al-Sherida pointed out. He hailed the initiative of “Kuwaiti Information Citizen” being developed by the Regional Centre for Updating Information Programs in cooperation with the COIT. The initiative aims to train ordinary Kuwaitis and residents in Kuwait on using computers and the Internet. He also praised the Microsoft and Sesco programs to train Kuwaiti youth cadres on the IT-related jobs.
The third Kuwait Exhibition of IT and Communications offers a rare opportunity for decision makers and professionals to get acquainted with the latest developments in the IT and communications industries, said Connection International board chairman Mansour Al-Mussa. The ordinary visitors can also exchange views and information with professionals on networks, data bases, application of administrative and financial programs, he added. The four-day event, sponsored by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Ismail Khudair Al-Shatti who is also Chairman of COIT, gathers several international IT companies.
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