ITA celebrates its 3rd anniversary

H.E. Mohammed Nasser Al-Khasibi, Chairman of ITA and Dr. Salim Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA addressed a large gathering of all ITA employees and thanked for their commitment.

In a span of 3years ITA has launched several flagship projects such as the Government Network, ePayment Gateway, Electronic Transactions Law, National Data Centre, Centre for Information Security, Innovation and Support Centre, eOman Awareness campaign, Government training and Community training programs.

Several other projects such as the Government eServices portal, National PC initiative, ICT business and Household survey are all nearly completed and are to be launched soon. Its innovative projects such as the Online Donations Portal have been receiving regional awards.

ITA's progress has been lauded not only at national but also international level as reflected by our excellence in the e-government rankings. As a direct result of implementing the eOman Strategy, Oman now ranks in 84th position in the UN E-Government Readiness Index 2008, a jump of twenty-eight points from 112th position in 2005.

In addition, as a result of the Information Technology Authority's continued efforts, Oman has been ranked in 50th position out of 134 countries in the Global IT Report 2008-09 that was published at the World Economic Forum.

In his speech Dr. Ruzaiqi, said:

"The achievements scaled during this short period of 3 years has been remarkable and this triumph rests on the shoulders of our staff. Whatever we have achieved is due to the hard work of our colleagues in implementing the strategy through meticulous planning and execution. The projects we handle are so different in nature, focus and purpose but together they enable us to realise the main goals of ITA - eOman. This would not be possible without the commitment and dedication of the staff to the multitude of tasks in our hand. ITA is sincerely committed to empowering the government agencies and the public and this is our earnest mission."

"My thanks are due to everyone one of ITA staff and I sincerely believe that this is the cream of the IT industry that is fuelling the creation of the knowledge-based society of Oman. Every success comes with renewed energy for higher performance requiring all the extra effort we can summon. I am confident that our celebrations will continue in the future, as we make more significant achievements as the eOman society. I wish to announce that the 31st May of every year will be marked with celebrations as ITA day," he added further.

As a main agenda of the celebrations this year, ITA honoured its long-serving employees who were with ITA since its establishment by the royal decree 52/2006 on the 31st May 2006. They were presented with certificate of appreciation and gifts on behalf of the management of ITA.