Full coverage: Middle East

23.11.2005 Quwait's Council of Ministers (COM) have signed a contract to establish a portal to promote transparency and involve citizens in the governance process.

16.11.2005 UAE nationals will be issued electronic passports beginning early next year, Minister of Interior Lieutenant-General Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan has announced .

11.11.2005 The Dubai Naturalisation and Residency Department (DNRD) is working towards establishing IT connectivity between Dubai International Airport (DIA) and Heathrow Airport to facilitate use of e-Gate card by passengers at the two airports.

11.11.2005 Dubai’s Department of Economic Development (DED) has announced that it will automate two of its internal business processes, a suggestion scheme and the agency’s IT help desk.

10.11.2005 The residents of Abu Shagara area who are facing water shortage or disconnection in the supply should not hesitate to contact th emergency phone number of Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) for redressal of the problem, said Engineer Mohammed Khalifa bin Taresh, Director of the Water Department at Sewa.

10.11.2005 A workshop on eGovernment was opened by the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah (UoS) yesterday.

10.11.2005 Turkey has signed US$23.6 million deal for government portal.
The project will involve the construction of an e-government portal for the Turkish government, provided by Singapore-based CrimsonLogic.

09.11.2005 Forty experts in the areas of information literacy and lifelong learning from all regions of the world are presently gathering for a Colloquium at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt.

03.11.2005 An online course “Introduction to Art and New Media in the Arab States, with a case study of Lebanon” started last Monday with 38 students. This first course of a master class on Art, Design and Technology for the Arab States is part of UNESCO's DigiArts initiative.

02.11.2005 The eGovernment project of Dubai initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF) is well on track with the soft launch of 25 eServices scheduled for launch by December 1, 2005.