Registration for HM Award for Excellence in eGovt begins

Muscat: Information Technology Authority (ITA), has announced the registration for the 5th edition of HM Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in eGovernment until August 21, 2016.
This year, the award contains 11 categories distributed among government, private and SMEs sectors. The government sector entities can compete in eight different categories, namely: Best e-Service including (G2E, G2B), Best e-Services via Mobile including (G2E, G2B), Best whole of government Project, Best service supporting doing business, Best e-participation for decision making initiative, Best e-transformation achievement. Whereas the private sector’s large organisations can compete in two categories, namely: Best Public eService and Best Public Mobile eService. Private sector ICT Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can participate, in one category: Best SME eService.
The evaluation of participating projects will be held from August 21 till August 31, while the jury panel will commence in October and the award ceremony will be in December.
The whole award process starting from registration, verification, up to jury evaluation and results will be carried out through a secure web system and will be published on the award website www.ita.gov.om/hmaward.
The Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in eGovernment was started in 2010. To contact the Award Management Team at ITA for more information via email: [email protected]; or by telephone: +968 24166800. The Award website www.ita.gov.om/hmaward.