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KUWAIT, Jan 28 (KUNA) -- GCC states are keen on setting a firm foundation
for Gulf e-government and Information Technology cooperation with the
objective of conflating all the states' e-government systems into one network,
said an expert here on Tuesday.
Director of the Central Apparatus for Information Technology in Kuwait,
Abdullatif Al-Serayea, told reporters here on the sidelines of a GCC meeting
on e-government and IT, that the meeting would result in ideas that would be
further probed into in another meeting set for next March.
He emphasized that the meeting today would deal with ways to enhance
establishing a GCC e-government network, noting that Kuwait and some of the
other GCC states have achieved with varying degrees of success a modicum of
linking various government ministries and agencies through an e-government
network. In Kuwait, he pointed out, up to 56 such agencies have been linked
and more are in the pipeline for the future.
Besides, he said that the official Kuwaiti government portal offers its
users 830 e-services. (end)
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