Best government practices in cloud computing highlighted at workshop

The Information and eGovernment Authority (iGA) organised a workshop titled ‘Best Government Practices in Cloud Computing’ in collaboration with Microsoft and the attendance of more than 100 specialists representing 67 government and semi-government entities in the IT field. Successful enterprise experiences were showcased during the workshop in implementing cloud computing solutions of entities under the umbrella of a government agreement with Microsoft.

Conducting such significant workshop comes in line with iGA’s continuous efforts that aim at enhancing government processes and services more effectively as well as supporting the migration of the public sector to work through the cloud in coincidence with Kingdom’s vision and in order to improve efficiency of this sector, promote greater productivity as well as enable the delivery of advanced services through a national cloud system that saves time and effort; in addition to deliver high-level of security and less operational efficiency.

“Digital transformation has the power to better protect and serve the needs of citizens by building modern workplaces for government entities,” said Shaikh Saif Hilal AlHosni, General Manager for Microsoft Bahrain and Oman. “The Government of Bahrain has formerly begun taking great leaps and bounds to succeed in this journey. Through its technologies and cloud solutions, Microsoft supports government efforts to achieve the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030.”

“Organising this important workshop is a continuation of efforts exerted by the Authority to improve the future of adopting Cloud First Policy on the Kingdom level ensuring the quality of implementing the policy in enterprises,” said iGA Acting Director of Government Systems Support and Maintenance Hesham AlHashemi.