by Sami Zaptia.
Tripoli, 9 June:
Members of the Scientific Committee of the International Libyan Conference on Electronic Government held their first preparatory . . .[restrict]meeting in Tripoli last Tuesday (5 June).
The meeting took place at the headquarters of the General Authority for Information and Documentation and was attended by numerous university Deans from Benghazi, Tripoli, Sabha, Zawya, and the Nalut Mountains Universities as well as Bani Waleed College of Electronics and Technology. It was also attended by the government’s Director of e-government Abdalmajid Hussein and head of the General Authority for Information and Documentation Abdelrauf al-Bebas.
The conference which is running under the banner of ‘the electronic government is our way to transparency and decentralization’ will be held in Tripoli on 14-15 July.
Presiding over the conference will be Abdulsalam Muftah who commented to Libya’s official news agency that ‘electronic government is a new means being implemented by numerous governments in order to ease services to citizens and solve the problem of centralization by implementing e-government in the right way across all the public sector’.
The conference welcomes international participants and the organizers offer help with visas and accommodation. It will be conducted in both Arabic and English and there will be a charge for entry to non-speakers payable upon registration at the reception desk on the first day of the conference..
For more information or to contact the organizers see the conference’s official website in English on: www.egov2012.ly [/restrict]
