Public sector employees in Kuwait will start signing in and out electronically from October 1 to ensure their punctuality and compliance with official working hours.
The Kuwait Civil Service Commission (CSC) had issued an edict making biometric finger-scanning compulsory in the public sector, according to Al Anba newspaper.
State ministries, government departments and public institutions have finalised all preparations to implement the biometric procedures, urging their personnel to comply.
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Minister of Justice and State Minister for National Assembly Affairs Dr Faleh Al-Azeb affirmed his keenness for the full implementation of e-government project, revealing that there was no e-government when he took up the ministerial position.
He said the egovernment service is almost ready but some final touches are required, indicating that the electronic interfacing is yet to be completed. The minister affirmed that transactions can be completed within few minutes through e-government service, revealed that a number of services of the ministry were recently turned into electronic services with the aim of facilitating procedures for the public.
Gemalto has been selected by KNET, Kuwait’s national shared electronic banking service company, and jointly owned by 11 Kuwait’s banking institutions, to supply its confirm authentication server.
Gemalto’s solution generates one-time passwords for online authentication, enabling millions of safe etransactions in the country via the KNET epayment gateway and delivering a step change in fraud protection. The secure platform is highly customisable and it can support a wide range of authentication and signing methods. Starting with SMS OTP, it will ultimately enable banks to expand towards Gemalto Mobile Protector and Secure Messenger solutions.
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The egovernment portal has collected KD 38 million from January to June 2017, compared to the KD 51 million collected in 2016.
They said statistics on the portal reveal that the most frequently used services are civil-ID related inquiries and payment of violations, as well as queries on travel ban and filed cases.
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Kuwait is one of the pioneering countries around the world in the e-Government system, and has so far realized steady development in the field of communications, a Kuwaiti expert affirmed Thursday.
Currently, all Kuwaiti ministries operate through the e-Gate system, via which education, health, commerce, and personal data services are provided electronically to citizens, Mona Yousef Sahar, an expert at the Ministry of Communications, stated to KUNA.