Best
Government
Portal
Best
Government
e-Service
Best
Government
e-Service
Best
Government-
to-Government
Shared Service
Best
Application
for Smart
Devices
Best
Government
e-Participation
Initiative
Best
e-Initiative
UAE
Portal of Dubai
Electricity and
Water Authority
Kingdom of
Bahrain
Portal of Ministry of
Health
UAE
Remote registration
of cases
Sultanate
of Oman
Electronic Elections
System
UAE
Fawri’ service for‘
automatic work and
entry visa application
submission
Sultanate
of Oman
Employment‘
Collaboration’ Project
System
UAE
CityGuard
UAE
DEWA›s smart
phones and device
application
UAE
eCommunication
Sultanate
of Oman
Talk To Muscat
Sultanate
of Oman
ITA e-Inclusion
UAE
Animal Identification
and Registration
System
Sultanate
of Oman
One Stop Shop (OSS)
Sultanate
of Oman
Data Exchange Portal
open data as part of the global trends
and one of the pillars for development
of applications and smart solutions.
The conference also urged for cre-
ating a GCC website for linking data
from all GCC countries according to
the designed policy. The website will
contain various subjects including ICT
indicators.
The conferees additionally recom-
mended developing a cooperative
mechanism to limit attacks on web-
sites in GCC countries, develop-
ing a plan to address security risks
that may associate the application
of BYOD technology, taking into ac
-
count the committee’s recommenda-
tions to assess projects submitted to
the GCC eGovernment awards, and
provide participants with reports on
the strengths and weaknesses of the
projects submitted.
Children Educational Program
It was also recommended to add a
category for the best cooperative
projects (across GCC) and develop
an educational programme for GCC
children on eGovernment and knowl-
edge based society including the cre-
ation of a children portal.
Recommendations included devel-
opment of a unified IT curriculum for
schools in the GCC; supporting Ara-
bic digital content through developing
a reference guide for writing in gov-
ernment websites - American project
plainlanguage.gov can be considered
for reference; cooperating to develop
and adopt the eAuthentication sys-
tem and regulatory frameworks in the
GCC countries and adopting a mech-
anism for regulating and developing
common services such as ePayment.
People with Special Needs
The conference called for focusing
on people with special needs while
formulating and implementing gov-
ernment Strategies; implementing
GCC education programmes to raise
the level of adoption of eServices
and mServices to increase confi
-
dence and improve the cyber secu-
rity culture; establishing a unified App
Store; enhancing the GCC vision to
move towards the concept of smart
government and smart cities; devel-
oping GCC unified policies on cyber
laws and guidance in order to ensure
consistency including digital signa-
ture; and developing a cloud comput-
Develop a unified IT
curriculum for GCC
schools
Local Winners
11
January
2014
