“We have decided to publish the electronic version to cope with modern developments,” according to Mamdouh Ba-Owaidan, the centre’s director.
Ba-Owaidan said that the e-encyclopaedia will include all rules and regulations in the Kingdom that were issued through royal decrees and ministerial decisions. He explained that these rules include security strategy to combat extremism and terrorism, anti-money laundering law, copyright protection law and the foreign investment law.
Salimeen Mohsen Hareez, a researcher at the centre, said it has been publishing the encyclopaedia of Saudi laws in two volumes since the year 2000.
Muhammad Al Thumali, public relations official at the centre, said Internet users all over the world would be able to access the electronic encyclopaedia free of charge. He said a large number of people, especially businessmen, lawyers and researchers would benefit from the project.
During the last seven years, the Saudi government has issued and updated a large number of rules and regulations as part of its efforts to join the World Trade Organisation.
The new e-encyclopaedia project goes well with the Kingdom’s SR3-billion e-government initiative, dubbed Yesser (Arabic for 'Simplify'), that aims at making Saudi society more digitally literate and streamlining government bureaucracy.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Habib Shaikh
Quelle/Source: Khaleej Times, 07.02.2007
