GOV AWARD

The ITP .GOV Awards were introduced in 2015 to honour the achievements of the government sector in the GCC in the ICT field. The awards programme was established to highlight the world-leading progress that the Gulf region has made in the field of smart government and the use of information technology to drive progress and improve lives. The awards are held in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Each ceremony recognises the most impressive government departments as their projects, implementations and individuals go head to head in 16 awards categories.

For more information about the award please visit the award website

Winning Project: Center of Digital Innovation (CoDI)

.GOV AWARD

The ITP .GOV Awards were introduced in 2015 to honour the achievements of the government sector in the GCC in the ICT field. The awards programme was established to highlight the world-leading progress that the Gulf region has made in the field of smart government and the use of information technology to drive progress and improve lives. The awards are held in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Each ceremony recognises the most impressive government departments as their projects, implementations and individuals

For more information about the award please visit the award website

Winning Project: FEDnet

Title

The Middle East Excellence Institute over the past 25 years has provided elements of success for institutions of the region, to be the most innovative in keeping up with the concepts of innovation and excellence, whilst upgrading the system of government infrastructure for sustainable Smart Cities to keep pace with rapid global developments on information services strategies for Smart-governmental organizations.The award ceremony will be part of the 25th Silver Jubilee Ceremony of the 25th GCC Smart Government and Cities Conference.

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Award Goals:

The Middle East Smart Government and Smart Cities Excellence Awards aims to encourage the public and private sector to develop a culture of excellence in Smart Service transactions and e-Knowledge and raise it to the highest global standards in all the e-government sectors to build effective communication and exchange experiences .among various regions.

Winning Project: FEDnet

His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award

His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award Mission: Advancing human capabilities in the field of informatics development It is an annual award organized by HH Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award since 2001, and is awarded For the best technical projects characterized by creativity and innovation.

Award Goals:

The award aims at highlighting the best achievements of the smart transformation, the successes of leaders and institutions, and highlighting the practices of excellence in shaping the future of smart services through honoring the best competitive development initiatives in the region. The Middle East Excellence Award Institute will honor the winners and institutions at a special ceremony on 25 April 2019 in Dubai

Winning Project: National Customer Relation Management System (NCRM)

WSIS AWARD

A global competition to select the best applications and e-content, that aims to reduce the digital gap between the countries. the competition includes representatives from 168 countries and held every two years since 2003.

The competition focuses on multimedia-based projects that effectively and creatively influence the digitization of cultural, scientific and educational content.

This competition is one of the activities associated with WSIS.

For more information about the award please visit the award website

Winning Project: Smart Government Project

WSIS AWARD

A global competition to select the best applications and e-content, that aims to reduce the digital gap between the countries. the competition includes representatives from 168 countries and held every two years since 2003.

The competition focuses on multimedia-based projects that effectively and creatively influence the digitization of cultural, scientific and educational content.

This competition is one of the activities associated with WSIS.

For more information about the award please visit the award website

Winning Project: UAEPedia

Smart Government Awards

This competition is exclusive for Arab governments and official entities

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Award Goals:

• Enhancing the electronic/smart governments' websites and social media pages.
• Encouraging creativity in the design of websites, web pages and smart applications of Arab governments.
• Awarding the best pages and electronic tools that have been designed according to international standards for electronic/smart governments' websites.
• Discovering and promoting the creative spirits and minds working in the field of e/s government.
• Reaching better e/s government websites and pages and constantly improving the quality of services and the possibility of benefiting from them to serve the Arab citizen
• Appreciating and recognizing the efforts of Arab governments and official entities that have established their websites, social media pages, and applications with smart tools to provide services to their citizens and residents.
• Encouraging the construction of more e-government

Winning Project: UAE mGov App store

GCC eGovernment Award

The GCC eGovernment Award is presented to the government entities, within the GCC countries, which follow international best practices in utilizing ICT tools in order to provide services and information to the various categories of their stakeholders. The award is announced alongside the GCC eGovernment Conference and Exhibition, that is held every two years. The first conference was held in Oman in December 2009, whereas the second was hosted by Kuwait in November 2011, United Arab Emirates in 2013 and the Kingdom of Bahrain accommodated the fourth in 2015.

For more information about the award please visit the award website

or you can watch a TV Interview about the award here (the Interview in Arabic)

HH Sheikh Salim Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award

An annual award aimed at developing human capabilities in the field of information development, and consolidating the role of community institutions in information development

• Developing IT skills and various innovations.
• Preparing the youth to contribute to the development of IT Culture.
• Developing and highlighting the Arabic digital content.
• Raising the spirit of competition, excellence and innovation in the IT field.
• Activating the role of IT Culture in society
• Utilizing Information Technology to understand and foresee the important issues of society.
• Raising the community awareness about safe IT practices.
• Increasing the level of community readiness for digital processing.
• Preserving the community cultural identity in the global IT system
• Highlighting Kuwait culture through the internet.

Alecso Apps Award

‘ALECSO Apps Award’ is an annual award dedicated to the best Arabic applications in the fields of education, culture, science and educational games. It is held within the framework of a wider project implemented by the Arab League Education, Cultural and Scientific Organization. The project aims to provide the necessary technological and institutional environment to contribute to the emergence of an Arab industry for the smart phones and tablets applications, by contributing to the development of a common Arab vision for the sector, the development of specialized Arab human resources, and facilitating the mobile applications productions and distribution.