Ministry of Information Technology: $31.84 Million to Implement 'Paperless Government'

Ibrahim Muhammad: The Central Agency for Information Technology has directly contracted with MS International for Communications to implement the “Paperless Government” project, with a total value of $31,844,940 after reductions. The official newspaper, Kuwait Today, published in its Sunday edition a summary of the Central Agency’s Board of Directors’ approval of the Information Technology Department’s request to reduce the contract amount for Contract No. 67, related to the project, to the aforementioned sum, based on a letter from the Court of Audit.

The “Paperless Government” project aims to digitize transactions of government entities, replacing paper-based documentation processes with electronic procedures, thereby enhancing service efficiency and facilitating transaction processing. The project relies on building an advanced, secure, and scalable digital infrastructure based on electronic cloud services, to strengthen the reliability of government systems, facilitate their integration with other digital platforms, and leverage the latest telecommunications and information technologies to develop services.

The project comes within the framework of supporting the Integrated and Transparent Government Development Program under the National Development Plan, which considers the digital transformation of government operations and services as one of its core policies, while mandating government entities to computerize their services and deliver them through the “Sahl” application and official platforms.

Furthermore, the project contributes to strengthening interconnectivity among government systems and facilitating data exchange between entities, thereby supporting the integration of digital services and simplifying service delivery procedures, in line with the trend toward completing transactions electronically and eliminating paper documents.