National Information Society Committee Holds Its Ninth Meeting

The National Information Society Committee held its ninth meeting on Tuesday, 24/04/1432H, corresponding to 29/03/2011, at the headquarters of the Communications and Information Technology Commission, chaired by His Excellency the Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission and Chairman of the National Information Society Committee, Dr. Abdulrahman bin Ahmed Al-Jaafari, and with the attendance of its members representing a number of ministries, government entities, and the private sector.

During the meeting, a number of the Committee's activities were discussed, along with following up on the tasks assigned to the entities represented in the Committee's membership, and following up on the activities of the Information for All Programme, which is one of its areas of focus, and the Committee's achievements during the past period were reviewed through the reports of its working groups.

It should be noted that the Committee aims to raise the level of public awareness in support of the directions aimed at transforming the Kingdom into an information society, as it seeks in this context to devote effort to expanding the circle of participation among all segments of society to advance the development process in the country and affirm the importance of the vital interaction leading to fulfilling the requirements of transformation into an information society. At the global level, the Committee plays an important and vital role in encouraging relevant national institutions with the various activities and goals included in UNESCO's Information for All Programme; as it serves as a link facilitating the flow of information between UNESCO, the Information for All Programme (IFAP), and the national institutions concerned with the information exchange process.