Kuwaiti Ministry awarded ESRI Special Achievement GIS Award

WASHINGTON, July 1 (KUNA) -- The Ministry of Electricity and Water has been offered the Special Achievement in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Award for 2016 by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) - USA during the ESRI annual conference in San Diego, California.
Engineers Bader Humoud Al-Enzi and Hisham Ali Kertsh represented the ministry at the conference late Thursday, and were handed the award by ESRI founder and president Jack Dangermond.
The Special Achievements in GIS Award is an annual prize offered to authorities and organizations with innovative and influential achievements in society using GIS techniques, Al-Enzi told KUNA on Friday.
They are nominated from 138 countries annually for the award which is granted to about 100 entities from the US and 50 entities from outside the US.
Al-Enzi expressed pride of the award, saying it was well-deserved after the ministry implemented a GIS project inputting all its data in one system for users to see, update or obtain reports.
The ministry dedicates the award to His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
Previously, Esri offered awards to a host of individual projects by Kuwaiti youth, the last of which went to Eng. Abdulhamid Al-Saffar from the Central Statistical Bureau in 2014.
Two awards were also given to the Public Authority for Civil Information Environment and Public Authority in Kuwait (EPA). (end) sd.msa