the public’s awareness of all govern-
ment smart apps, and will serve as
a platform for promoting government
apps.
What characterizes the new
mGov App Store?
It is characterized by simplicity, us
-
ability, attractive design, smooth and
precise search engine, apart from its
sharing system. The store also pro-
vides a description about each app
in Arabic and English to enable non-
Arabic speakers to easily use them.
Shifting between both the languages
can be done with a click; which hap-
pens instantly without the need to
re-start the app store. The store also
provides the list of apps offered by
each entity.
The store is featured as well with
push notification services; for exam
-
ple, Roads and Transport Authority
(RTA) in Dubai announced that it will
launch the smart taxi app in 2014.
Once published on the store, us-
ers will receive notifications that the
smart taxi app has been launched by
RTA. This helps make the app known
to the largest number of people pos-
sible, particularly that the main issue
faced by users lies in recognizing the
name of the app upon searching for
it, especially on Apple App Store.
To give an example: for a user to find
‘Ministry of Health App’, he/she will
find it only by searching for ‘MOH’ in
-
stead of the full name. This is, actual-
ly, a big problem that features several
apps, hindering people from availing
the services these apps offer.
RTA’s teams are currently gathering
all service apps developed by gov-
ernment agencies in order to make
them available on the store ac-
cording to geo-categories.
For which operating
systems will the store
be available?
It will be available on Ap-
ple and Google official
app stores.
Will
apps
go
through security
test before being
published?
Certainly, before the
app is published on the
store, it will go through a
thorough check in order
to measure their security
capabilities, which is a criti-
cal process.
We seek to offer a store
that combines simplic-
ity of design and
security. To this
end, we made
sure that the
store corre-
sponds to
the
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