Top experts for Bahrain eGov Excellence Award 2017

Manama : Bahrain’s eGovernment Excellence Award 2017 has announced its jury members who will be in-charge to evaluate the nominations for the 9th edition of the Award. 

The award is organised under the patronage of HH Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak AlKhalifa, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Information & Communication Technology. 

This year, the jury committee is chaired by Louise Thomasen, a global consultant and expert in eGovernment and ICT with over 30 years’ experience working cross the field of technology and society. 

The awarding categories encompass seven distributed into three sectors – the Government, Multi Sectors and the Citizen. The Government category comprise the ‘Best eGovernment Website’, ‘Best Government-to-Government eService (G2G)’, ‘Best Practice in Community eParticipation’ and ‘Best eGovernment Integrated Services for Individuals or Businesses’. The Multi-Sectors category include ‘Best Application for Smart Devices’. As for the Citizen category, the two awards ‘Best eConcept’ and the ‘eCitizen’ which will be awarded based on the largest number of transactions accomplished and biggest value of financial transactions completed via the eGovernment portal (bahrain.bh) during one year. 

Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak AlKhalifa will award winners during a ceremony specifically organized which will be announced at a later stage. 

For more information visit www.egovaward.bh .

Jury members

Louise Thomasen, a global consultant and expert in eGovernment and ICT (Chairman),

Mohamed Tayeb Mahmood, independent consultant in the areas of ICT, excellence and strategic planning, 

Dr. Mazen Ali, independent consultant in the areas of ICT, 

Amani Shajera- Information Systems Department Chairperson of the IT College in the University of Bahrain, (Head of Studies & Research Department at the Supreme Council for Women/ Business Administration College lecturer at the UOB).

Dr. Mohamed Baqer, Director of Strategy & Performance Unit at UOB, 

Ahmed AlMahri, Business Development Assistant Manager at Benefit Company.