Kuwaiti government collects charges easily online

Up to KD 15 million worth of fees and fines werecollected as a result of finalizing bureaucratic work via Kuwait's e-governmentwebsite last year, said a Kuwaiti official here.Director General of the Central Agency for Information Technology Center AbdulLatif Al-Suraya told KUNA on Tuesday said this amount of paid money also coveredvarious paper work for individuals and institutions.Number of government services, provided online, has increased to more than 800, inaddition to 200 others, available on smart phones, Al-Suraya added.Number of citizens who used the site reached 900,000 in the first quarter of thisyear, Al-Suraya said, affirming that the service resulted in speeding up governmentbureaucratic and paper works.The recently-issued electronic operations law has preserved rights of those who dothe tasks online, increased citizens' confidence in the advanced service, in additionto linking up 50 government departments through the network.Now, information and data are being pooled at high speed among the government departments.