Dubai eGovernment signs partnership with UAE Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to help re-engineering ministry's services

Dubai eGovernment will cooperate with MAF in supervising the business process re-engineering activity of the Ministry. Dubai eGovernment will evaluate the business processes of MAF and examine the scope of integrating the tools of information technology to fundamentally reshape the workflows and processes within the ministry.

"The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries undertakes a host of activities aimed at ensuring sustainable agricultural development. The nature of our work needs the constant application of new technologies and processes to ensure our effectiveness," said Abdullah Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Acting Undersecretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. "Re-engineering our services is crucial and we have chosen Dubai eGovernment as our partners because of the expertise they have demonstrated in executing re-engineering processes."

"The MoU reflects the advances Dubai eGovernment has made in providing consultancy services to various organisations and government departments on business process re-engineering with the goal of promoting competitiveness and efficiency by using information technology as a key driver," said Mahmoud Al Bastaki, Business Process Re-engineering Consultant, Dubai eGovernment. "We are confident that together with MAF, we will be able to identify the needs of the ministry by applying the key lessons we learned in re-engineering".

Under the terms of the MoU, the Ministry will set up an exclusive taskforce to oversee the development, supervision and execution of the re-engineering project as well as provide documentation support. Working closely with the taskforce, the team of re-engineering specialists from Dubai eGovernment will critically analyse the vulnerabilities and limitations of MAF's business processes and come up with a master plan to redesign its existing business processes.

Further, the Dubai eGovernment team will take the lead in scouting for the competent IT solutions vendor with best of breed technologies and an impeccable track record to implement the re-engineering project. They will also ensure that all the technologies and processes used in the re-engineering adhere to global standards.