BEIRUT, March
20 (KUNA) - Kuwait is exerting great efforts in the field of enabling the
public sector to transform the digital sector to serve the goals of sustainable
development, Kuwaiti officials said Wednesday. The Director of Project Planning
Department at the Central Agency of Information Technology in Kuwait Dina
Al-Gharaballi told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on the sidelines of her
participation in the second Arab High-Level Forum for the World Summit on the
Information Society and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
In Beirut that
"Kuwaiti government agencies are working to develop their services and use
all means of communication technology with the public to facilitate access to
services and transactions.”
And stressed
the keenness of these government agencies to publish everything related to its
transactions and services on the Internet.
The next
challenge in Kuwait is to achieve the stage of making transactions more
integrated by simplifying the procedures and integrating the services, which
includes many steps that combine more than one governmental body, pointing to
the efforts being used in Kuwait to reach this stage. "Kuwait has
published the national strategy for cybersecurity and work is under way on the
project of linking the strategy of sustainable development with ICT," said
Manal AlMazyad, head of public sector governance at Communication and Information
Technology Regulatory Authority.
She continued
“CITRA is in the process of developing a cloud computing policy, a data
classification policy and an information security policy that are all aimed at
enabling the public sector to be digitized.”
She added that
Kuwait's participation in the Forum helps to "inform us of the latest
developments in the field of governance, policies and regulations and link them
with Kuwait's efforts in this regard." The project coordination observer
at the Central Agency of Information Technology, Assistant to Al-Dosari and the
administrative coordinator of the agency, Abdulrazzaq Al-Khaled, will
participate in the forum. The forum, which opened yesterday and will last until
Thursday, will discuss the importance of linking the World Summit with the
Information Society and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to achieve
digital development that will help implement the goals of sustainable
development.