Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 09 | Page 7

NEWS UAE Al Taqnyah automates the Moot Courts Competition Al Taqnyah Business Solutions has rolled-out an end-to-end electronic competition and awards management system to Maktoum Bin Mohammad Al Maktoum Initiatives for Legal Excellence, a key milestone in the e-Transformation journey of the prestigious moot courts competition. The System enables end to end electronic management of the competition from candidate registration till awarding spanning auditing, candidature defense, jury evaluation, report generation and result announcement. Judge/ Ahmed Ibrahim Saif, Chief Justice of Civil Court in Dubai Courts & Chairman of the Scientific Committee of Maktoum bin Mohammed initiatives for Moot court competition commented, “The System not only aligns with the vision of the organisational committee, but exceeds its expectations. It was a key factor in the success of the 2016 edition of the competition, a first edition where all gulf countries were represented, making it a memorable and efficient experience to all competition stakeholders”. “The committee was thrilled to use the system, the convenience and ease of adjudicating process was felt immediately compared to the manual process used last year. The solution also supports us to showcase transparency, and therefore we avoided complaints which we received last year from competitors, as they witnessed all the draws and the rewarding happen live.” He concluded System features an efficient integration between portal technologies availing electronic registration and auditing, business process management systems utilised for jury evaluation and finally open-source technologies enabling real time result presentation and management. ePay receives ‘Smart ePayment Gateway Excellence Award’ establishments, keep pace with the futuristic trends for comprehensive transformation towards smart government and governance systems and fulfil the vision of government establishments for adopting a sustainable global excellence strategy. The ePay service provided by Smart Dubai Government Establishment (SDG) has bagged the 21stMiddle East Smart Government and Smart Cities Excellence Award in the category of ‘Smart ePayment Gateway Excellence Award‘, which is organised by the Middle East Excellence Awards Institute to recognise the strategic role played by government www.intelligentcio.com The ePay service, which enables individual and corporate customers to electronically pay the fees of government services provided by the participating government entities round the clock from anywhere, was launched in 2003, while the 5th generation of the service was launched in 2014. H.E. Wesam Al Abbas Lootah, CEO of SDG, said: “We are working in collaboration with our strategic partners in several government and private entities in Dubai to form an integrated team and combine efforts for employing the modern innovation-based concepts and foreseeing the future with the aim of providing innovative smart solutions and hence achieving sustainable happiness for the society.” Expressing pleasure at SDG winning this award, Lootah said the award reflects SDG’s endeavour to fulfil its vision of making Dubai the happiest and smartest city on earth and its mission of achieving happiness through the provision of world- class smart services and infrastructures for Dubai residents and visitors. He said that the initiative aims to support the emirate’s comprehensive development plans through keeping pace with the innovative technologies and techniques and applying the best global practices and standards towards bringing more happiness to Dubai residents. INTELLIGENTCIO 7