The Second National Action Plan has four main strategic themes: building a sustainable e-government workforce, improving the public experience of government interaction, developing a culture of collaboration, and improving government efficiency. The fulfilment of these themes is expected to lead to efficient and effective delivery of services to citizens of Saudi Arabia.
The plan includes 22 objectives based on the four main themes, and 46 initiatives for achieving these objectives. 30 of these initiatives are to be executed in the first two years of implementation.
This plan is the second part of the current e-government programme called Yesser, which was established in 2005 by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT), with the support of Ministry of Finance, and the Communication and Information Technology Commission.
One of the initiatives planned to build a sustainable workforce for e-government is the training of officials in collaboration with international universities. This initiative was unveiled by Eng Suhail Al Almaee, Director of Strategic Planning and Support Initiatives at Yesser. “We are working with Boston University to train CIOs within the government,” he announced. “62 individuals have already gone to the university and are undergoing training.
To improve and build a culture of collaboration, the government will increase public-private partnership (PPP) in the sector of e-government. PPP was identified as an effective implementation strategy through the examination of successful case studies such as that of Singapore. Increased PPP is expected to reduce project workload on the government agencies and create jobs to increase economic growth.
Abdulaziz Al-Mulhem, Assistant Minister and CIO of Planning at the Ministry of Culture and Information, Saudi Arabia, asserted that the influx of private sector wealth through PPP could solve the problem of constraint of resources and be an effective tool for facilitating opportunities, through options such as jointly owning technology or services.
The particulars of this plan were discussed during a workshop held by Yesser earlier this year, which was attended by 360 officials representing 210 government agencies.
Yesser has been in the news for ICT development earlier this month too. An agreement was signed by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Eng. Mohamed Jamil Bin Ahmed Mulla, and the President of the Saudi General Authority for Survey, Marie bin Hassan Al-Shahrani. Based on the agreement, Yesser will work with the Survey Authority to develop a geospatial database, and help the Authority establish infrastructure for geospatial data, develop its e-services, plan for the transfer and exchange of geospatial data, and create documentation for the process of service delivery.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Sumedha Jalote
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 01.10.2012
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