I just read this in knet magazine
V O L U M E I I , I S S U E 4 P A G E 7
Knet organized a ‘Smart Card Workshop’ that was held over four
days at the Holiday Inn Downtown and conducted by Aconite.
Jenan Al-Shatti, Unit Head for the E-Government Project, related on
the importance of this workshop; “The training undertook to explain
in some detail what the smart card is, what its uses are, the need for it
in Kuwait, and how it could be used as a form of payment. The
advantages were discussed, after which the different organizations
collaborated to set the specifications particular to Kuwait.
The Government of Kuwait plans to replace the present civil ID card
with a similar card carrying a chip, which will be, in effect, a smart
card. This card can be used to effect payments for some government
issues, and this payment will be routed through Knet. For this reason, teams from Knet,
Agency for Information Technology and the
The attendees were Abdulla Al-Ajmi, Haifa Al-Ali, Mohammed Al-Sarraf, Ghadna’a Zeraie, Jenan Al-Shatti,
Ruqayya Al-Mehri, Hussam Al-Dulaimi and Shrouq Al-Omaim from Knet; Fahad Al-Mutawa and
Ebrahim Al-Felakawei from the Ministry of Finance; Ebtisam Al-Awadhi and Nawal Al-Jomah from the
Central Agency for Information Technology, and Mustafa Abdulaziz, John Zachariah and Ebrahim Majdy
from PACI.
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