According to a government official plans for an e-government portal in Saudi Arabia are advanced, and an announcement will be made shortly.
Dr Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel, Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission, has said that the e-government portal will include a transaction and billing engine to facilitate citizen payments to public agencies. There are currently more than 2 million internet users, out of a total population of 23 million.
According to Dr Mohammed the government is looking to connect the forthcoming e-government portal to other publicly-held companies, such as Saudi Telecom, the national telco.
Quelle: Public Sector Technology & Management, 17.09.2004
