Key Achievements
Activating e-government
The UAE has established a national Web Portal to serve as a central repository of government information, and has been achieving the migration of 50% of the federal government services to electronic channels in 2008 and aiming to raise it to 90% by 2010.
The UAE has established a national Web Portal where citizens, foreign workers, and visitors can access an ever increasing number of e-resources from the government. The portal serves as a central repository for government information including things like yellow pages, lists of emergency numbers, links to government agencies, and some electronic forms.
The migration to electronic services, which came in response to instructions by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, has ranked the UAE the 32nd in e-government readiness index among the 192 member states in the fourth-edition of the eGovernment survey conducted by United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). The country, which came 42nd in 2005, has outperformed other Gulf countries. The survey also ranked the UAE fifth in terms of transaction services, just behind developed countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the US, while the country achieved the 12th position in the web measurement index, which rated the online presence of national websites and selected ministries, including health, education, welfare, labor and finance. The UAE also has the highest web measure index in the region, which reaffirms the country's commitment to setting the highest standards of eGovernance excellence.
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