Bahrain eGovernment Index launched

The Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) has launched the Bahrain eGovernment Index. Acting Vice CE in eTransformation Dr Zakareya Ahmed AlKhajah stated that the Kingdom has emerged a pioneer in the field.

“The index is developing government performance by facilitating procedures and raising quality of services delivered to the public. It is consistent with international indicators that are applied in the eGovernment sector.”

He continued that the index regularly evaluates public entities based on a set of criteria, which focus on maturity of delivered eServices in terms of integration, interaction, simplicity of procedures, accessibility to information as well as level of entity’s adoption to the cloud computing technology and level of commitment to IT as well as HR development.