MUSCAT: The GCC Ministerial Committee for e-Government held its 7th meeting in Muscat on Thursday and reviewed a raft of topics, including the launch of a joint advanced electronic portal and a guideline for the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI).
The meeting was chaired by the Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology.
The officials exchanged views about minutes of meetings held earlier by the GCC E-government Executive Committee and its affiliate panels and working teams.
The meeting also studied a request to transfer the powers of the GCC “committee of national centres for emergency response computers” to the GCC E-Governance Executive Committee, along with the powers of GCC 'task teams entrusted with digital trust services'.
Meanwhile, the Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, chaired the 2nd meeting of the GCC Ministerial Committee for Cybersecurity.
In his speech, Eng Said bin Hamoud al Maawali, Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology said that the cybersecurity field saw many developments in the previous decades. This field, he pointed out, has become vital with the increased use of the Internet and the emergence of nascent technologies and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Moreover, the meeting touched on a spectrum of topics, namely approving the structure and tasks of the cybersecurity ministerial committee and approving the executive plan of the committee, among other topics. - ONA
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