Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Riyadh allocates 3b riyals for first phase of e-government project

The Saudi government has allocated three billion Saudi riyals for implementing the first phase of e-government project, a senior government official said.

Chief of Intelligence Prince Miqren bin Abdul Aziz said Saudi Arabia has prepared a national strategy for communication and information technology while chairing the first session of the National e-transaction Conference which was opened in Riyadh on Sunday.

In a related development, Saudi Arabia is working on a law for e-crimes.

This was announced by the Saudi Communications and Information Technology (CIT) minister Mohammad Jamil Mullah.

The law is in its final stages, the minister added in statements on Sunday after opening the first national e-transactions conference on behalf of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz.

The minister also launched four projects for e-transactions intended to pave the way for e-government in Saudi Arabia.

The minister pointed out that 74 per cent of homes in Saudi Arabia are having landline telephone service and 34 per cent of homes have computers.

Finance Minister Ebrahim Al Assaf said that his ministry is working to launch an e-procurement portal for government purchases, adding that coordination is underway with some government agencies to have fees paid online.

The governor of the Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC), Mohammad Al Suwayel noted that an e-government programme is to be initiated in cooperation between the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Finance and the Communication and Information Technology Commission.

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