Manama, Jul. 7(BNA) – The Jury Committee of Bahrain eContent Award 2013, held under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa – Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Information and Communication Technology (SCICT) and organized by Bahrain Internet Society in collaboration with Bahrain eGovernment Authority has completed its evaluation of eContent projects presented to the Award by the private and public sectors and individual participants while results will be announced at a later date.
On this occasion, the Chairman of the Bahrain eContnet Award 2013 Organising Committee BIS president, Mr. Nawaf Abdulrahman said “The Jury Committee of Bahrain eContnet Award 2013 , formed of 12 judges, continued working for 5 consecutive days to inspect, evaluate and determine the best practices in all eContent projects in Bahrain that were received from the private and public sectors and individual participants. It was noted that there was a regression in the rate of the public sector’s participation this year in comparison to the private sector and a clear competetion on the level of indiviual participations was reccorded, thus showing clear rise in comparison to last year’s”
The Bahrain eContent Award 2013 jury committee comprised an elite of experienced and specialised judges in the field of eContent from the different sectors and they are Essam Hadi; IT Manager, Aluminium Bahrain BSC, Dr. Mazen Mohamed Ahmed Ahmed Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems, IT College, University of Bahrain, Ali Beshara; Regional Expert in Evaluating eInitiatives, Khalifa Ahmed Al Shakar; IT Manager, Al Baraka Islamic Bank, Jamal Ahmed Al Khayyat; Vice Presidence, Gulf Internationa Bank (GIB), Khalid Al Thawadi; CEO, Digital Wave Digital Wave Media Lecturer, Arab Open University, Adel Maymoon; Founder CEO, Tawasul Alkhaleej for Social Media Consultanty and management, Dr. Nawaf Almoayed; Technical Director, Al Moayyed Group, Ahmed Buqais; Senior Associate-Information Security Compliance Officer, Ethamaar Bank, Abdulla Al Hamed; CEO Executive Director, Investate Group several national initiatives, including establishing the Business Directory of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Bank Consultancies and a member of the group of experts working in the e-government survey 2014, Ms. Hana Omar Abdulaziz; Head, e-Learning Systems Development, His Majesty King Hamad Schools of the Future Project – Ministry of Education and holds a Master Degree in IT Computer Science, and finally Mr. Srikant Ranganathan, President sYzYgY Consulting Ltd., specialised in IT consulting.
Mr. Abdulrahman indicated that this award with its results comes to pave the way for Bahrain to participate in the World Summit Award (WSA) as it presents part of the bigger event. It also comes to confirm the BIS’ commitment and initiatives towards enforcing and encouraging innovation, as well as supporting Bahraini innovators and developers in the field of information and communication technology (ICT) and internet.
Mr. Abdulrahman commended the support and assistance provided by the team of the World Summit Award (WSA), represented by Professor Peter Brook, consultant and member of the Bahrain eContent Award 2013 Organizing Committee for, as well as observers Alexander Felsenberg and Jak Boumans in the evaluation process and Gerald Henzinger, Learning Specialist from Knowledge Fox Company who provided technical support for the Jury. Mr. Abdulrahman explained the evaluation process with some detail: “The evaluation process went smoothly with judges demonstrating high professionalism in their evaluation while applying international standards in evaluating all econtent projects submitted by the public and private sectors with strong competition indicated between individual projects.” Mr. Abdulrahman added “as for the evaluation’s final results and names of winners, God willing, they will be announced after the holy month of Ramadan.”
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BNA 1841 GMT 2013/07/07