The Roads & Transport Authority - Mohammed Al Munji:
The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has won the Excellence in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Implementation (EGI) Award, presented by GISTEC. RTA winning of this coveted Award has recently been announced during the annual GIS conference held in Dubai.
His Excellency Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the RTA, expressed his delight with RTA winning this prestigious Award upon receiving Abdullah Al Madani, CEO of Corporate Technical Support Services Sector, together with Abdullah Al Bastaki, Director of IT in the RTA. The Award culminates RTA's endeavours in implementing the latest GIS technologies and its relentless efforts to revamp the GIS corporate platform providing a number of tools to assist users in reviewing geographical information, researching & querying information, and analyzing & printing various GIS data reports & maps.
"The RTA is seeking to complement its internal systems with the existing systems of government agencies and other public entities; which in turn will help upgrade various RTA systems, and improve the planning as well as the decision-taking process," said Al Tayer.
RTA Chairman of the Board and Executive Director explained that the RTA is continuously seeking to upgrade its technological systems and its endeavours have been rewarded with the ISO 27001 Certification in Information Security Management; which is considered one the highest certificates in the field of Information Security worldwide, and has also bagged the ISO 20000 Certificate relating to quality standards of IT services conforming to the specifications set in ITIL standards, thus has become the second government department in Dubai to scoop this Certificate and the fifth nationwide. The RTA has also won a host of regional awards to honour its efforts in the IT field. In this regard it has won the second position in the GCC e-Government Award 2009 in the category of the Most Electronically Developed Organizations in GCC countries. It has also clinched the IT Governance Award, which is presented annually by the Information Technology Governance Assurance Forum (ITGAF), Network Middle East Innovation Award, and the Arab Technology Award for the payment of parking fees through the mobile phone project (mParking).
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© Press Release 2013
