Oman participates in GCC E-Government Executive Committee meeting

Kuwait: The Sultanate of Oman participated on Monday in the 27th meeting of the GCC E-Government Executive Committee, hosted by the State of Kuwait.

Oman's delegation was headed by Eng. Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Al Kharousi, Director General of Digital Transformation and Sector Enablement at the Ministry of Transport, Communications, and Information Technology.

During the meeting, the committee discussed several agenda items, including reviewing the General Secretariat’s report on the implementation of decisions from the 26th meeting, initiatives under the GCC’s guiding strategy for e-government, topics related to shared e-services among GCC states, the unified software procurement for GCC countries and initiatives related to artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies.

The committee also reviewed the general framework for supporting AI applications in public services across GCC countries, as well as the general framework for the climate prediction and disaster management initiative using AI—both of which were prepared by Oman. Additionally, the meeting discussed the criteria for the GCC Digital Government Award.