Benefiting from Iceland’s experiment in electronic government [Archives:2005/835/Business & Economy]
Mahyoub Al-Kamaly
Yemen has resolved to seek help from the Icelandic experiment in the field of electronic government and the steps it had undertaken in this regard. Electronic government system represents one of the practical solutions to improve proficiency, circulate bonds and statements, to take decisions, sending and receiving electronic messages.
A special workshop, organized for this purpose, affirmed that success of the electronic government would, according to the Icelandic experiment, depend essentially on creating cooperation among the ministries. Those ministries work on implementation of this project and defining authorities of each ministry.
It has revealed that success of the electronic government does not depend on implementing it all at once but rather in phases. It would begin application in one ministry and if it succeeded, it would be applied to another and then merging the two ministries on condition that they are both at the same standard of efficiency.
The workshop was organized in Sana'a on 17 April 2005 by the ministry of communications and information technology in cooperation with government institutions, the preparatory committee for information summit to be held in Tunisia, and the national program for information technology committee, discussed Iceland's experiment in the area of electronic government. During the symposium, undersecretary of the ministry of communications and information technology Yassin Mahmoud pointed out that the development was being based essentially on benefiting from technology in all fields.
The Yemeni official said the electronic government and information society effect a qualitative transfer as it is representing a revolution in the area of information and that of changing the approach and mentality of any society in the world. In addition, the deputy director of the national program office for information technology Samira Abdullah has affirmed the importance of exchange of expertise, adding that they should be accomplished by knowing what we have achieved in information area through decisions and recommendations that have been issued by Geneva summit.
She has praised the preparations that Yemen is making for taking part in activities of information society that would be held in Tunisia in November. The meeting aims to create awareness in the area of information.
It is expected that Israel would take part in the meeting especially after Tunisia had announced that they had extended the invitation to Sharon to attend the summit. Arab countries have expressed their reservations regarding the Israeli participation and may boycott the world conference of information society.
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