Commissioned by the born of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said - kept him God - sponsored by His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq Al Said, Ceremony and the distribution of Sultan Qaboos Prize for Excellence in e-government services 2011, which will be held this evening, the status of the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Sultan Qaboos
University, with the participation of President Bill Clinton, former President of the United States of America, in the presence and anticipation of the government institutions involved for the honor of winning one of the categories of the award.
He knew the former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who is taking part in this ceremony, his initiatives leading in the application of e-government program and employing the Internet and digital technology for the development of government services, it is the first U.S. president to order an e-Government Portal has also seen his presidency launched the first website for the White House.
Also issued a Bill Clinton in 1996, a presidential order to the heads of the federal government to use information technology to facilitate public access to U.S. information relating to these institutions, which this is one of the early leaders in the world who have adopted employ digital technology to facilitate public access to government information and services online and effective use of information technology in the public domain.
And one of the most important achievements in the era of U.S. President Bill Clinton that the government financial allocations for the employment of information technology in the development of education multiplied by 3000% has resulted in an increase in the percentage of schools connected to the Internet from 35% in 1994 to 95% in 1999.
It began preparations for the Information Technology Authority to regulate the award in its second year in a row since April last; by holding a number of workshops to introduce the award and the mechanisms of registration and evaluation by a specialized workshop on best practices of e-government, in order to facilitate the registration procedures and ensure the availability of a mastery of the projects participating in the Fourth of July began the process of recording projects electronically until the end of last September.
During this stage, sort of projects and ensure that they satisfy the requirements and standards by those on the organizing committee, and then evaluated by an independent jury comprising a tenth international arbiters of: (United States of America, United Kingdom, Denmark, Syria, Sweden, Ireland, Italy , Slovakia, India, Palestine), took into account the body in the members of the jury to be of the talent and expertise in the field of information technology and communications, and during the period from October 15 to 18 met the jury of the resort Hngerla paper Al Jissah to issue its final decision neutrality and independence of the total, to announce those results in a ceremony today.
This and take part in this year's 44 projects electronically representing 23 government institutions competing for the various award categories are: Best e-content and the award for best project of a special institution of government alone and the award for Best e shared between more than one institution and the award for Best sophisticated electronically, and the economics prize-mail in addition to Best online service, which were spread across several areas: the prize for the best online service provided to the government sector and the award for the best online service provided to the private sector and the award for the best online service for citizens and the award for best e-services provided to government employees and the award for the best service for mobile communications.