KAU Plans e-Book on Saudi Law
KAU Plans e-Book on Saudi LawP.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
JEDDAH, 27 January 2007 — The Research & Development Center of King Abdulaziz University (KAU) intends to publish an e-encyclopedia of Saudi laws containing 22,000 pages.
“The encyclopedia will include all rules and regulations in the Kingdom that were issued through royal decrees and ministerial decisions,” said Mamdouh Ba-Owaidan, the center’s director.
These rules include security strategy to combat extremism and terrorism, anti-money laundering law, copyright protection law and the foreign investment law, he said.
The center has been publishing a print version of the encyclopedia for the past 34 years. “We have decided to publish the electronic version to cope with modern developments,” he said.
Salimeen Mohsen Hareez, a researcher at the center, said his organization was publishing the encyclopedia of Saudi laws in two volumes since the year 2000.
Muhammad Al-Thumali, public relations official at the center, said Internet users all over the world would be able to access the electronic encyclopedia free of charge. He said a large number of people especially businessmen, lawyers and researchers would benefit from the project.
During the last seven years, the Saudi government has issued and updated a large number of rules and regulations as part of its efforts to join the World Trade Organization.
The new e-encyclopedia project goes well with the Kingdom’s SR3-billion e-government initiative, dubbed Yesser (Arabic for “Simplify”), that aims at making Saudi society more digitally literate and streamlining government bureaucracy.
Speaking at the National e-Transactions Conference 2007 in Riyadh recently, Prince Muqrin, chief of general intelligence, emphasized the Kingdom’s plan to launch an awareness campaign in order to encourage the general public to embrace e-governance, while explaining the key benefits to officials of government agencies, businesses and society in general. He also expressed optimism that the Kingdom’s e-government project would be fully functional in 2010 or well before the stipulated timeframe.
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Muhammad Jameel Mulla said 150 electronic government services would be up and ready for public use by 2010. He said the Kingdom aimed at providing easy access to government services by citizens and residents from their households.
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