"The Saudi Arabian government has agreed to extend all facilities in setting up a telemedicine centre at Riyadh for providing immediate medical treatment remotely to its citizens across the desert country," a hospital spokesman told IANS.
The proposal came up for discussion during a visit of a 40-member Saudi youth delegation Monday to the Narayana Hrudayalaya campus on the city's outskirts, led by its Deputy Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah.
Weiterlesen: Saudi Arabia seeks Bangalore hospital's help for telemedicine centre
The Kingdom has advanced 17 positions from its rank of 58th in 2010, said the UN’s Department of Economic and Social Affairs’ survey on e-government for 2012, which was released on Thursday.
“The importance of cloud computing solutions for us came from the e-Government initiative we need to align with. But cloud computing is definitely the key to the future of the Kingdom’s IT modernization plan - and the biggest benefit of cloud-based infrastructure is IT resource sharing,” said Dr Ayman Fayoumi, Vice Dean for IT at King Abdulaziz University.
Due to Saudi Arabia’s large jump from 58 to 41, it is now among the top 25 emerging e-government leaders. In addition, it is highlighted as one of the countries that made the most progress over the past two years. The top five countries in the 2012 e-government development index are South Korea, the Netherlands, the U.K., Denmark, and the U.S.
Weiterlesen: Saudi Arabia Becomes E-Government “Emerging Leader”
A survey of CIOs by Gartner's Executive Programs reveals that enterprises in the Middle East and Africa are increasing IT spending with CIO IT budgets expected to grow by 14.3 percent this year. Areas of priority for the kingdom are seen as cloud computing, virtualisation and e-Government.