Abdel Eljaroshi
Project Management Specialist
IT&IS Engineer
ABDELSALAM KHALIL ELJAROSHI
In a poor excuse of a national services portal, Libyan Information Agency launched a website claiming it to be a Libyan Electronic Services Portal.
The news was spread on local newspaper, and the General Information Agency of Libya informed local newspapers on Saturday (the day of officially launching the trial version), GIAL informed them that the portal will provide services to Libyan citizens through the internet to reach the eGov concept.
I hope they do reach level of competency, because most of the terminology used in this country isn't exact to be fair. In November 2006, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, my study buddies decided to choose and mandate a graduation project for a degree in IT&IS Engineering at WGUni, they asked me to propose a subject, and without any second thoughts I said:
Establishing and Maintaining eGov in Libya
Why: Libya, because even bureaucracy did not succeed in this country, clients do not come first, and they are always wrong. So that was the challenge: Establishing a non-bureaucratic totally independent electronic services based community, in a society that can never leave the paper work, and also could never be organized with it, or without it.
The project was a study to defuse issue facing implementation, analyze the risk, and come out with an applicable plan to classify needs of services, and execute them to offer services from server based applications, to client end.
And now look what happened, 3 years from that project, Libya is trying an itsy bitsy portion of the eGov frame. I hope they succeed, but based on what we anticipated back in 2006, it will need not a lot of financial resources, but a whole lot of patience.
As for Libya Portal www.bawabtlibya.com, it lacks everything, as for now it is just a blog for newscasts and posts, nothing more, nothing less. But will it be a portal to the new Libyan electronic government, that we'll have to wait for to see.
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