Just finished publishing results of “Thanaweya Al3ama” after minister of MOE had the speech on the TV at 9:00 am today . At the same time we broadcast the KTV on Qualitynet throught our web site And the bandwidth reaching the maximum in crazy way about 10 M giving no more connections .

About 10 am we publish it on our web site the load also going crazy about 2000 Concurrent connections on each server . all students in kuwait want to check their grade ! also their fathers mothers . in the same time both Qualitynet and Fasttelco publish the results but our traffic already going high from yesterday !

moe on Quality [link]
moe on Quality [link]

But unfortunately United Networks didn’t want to participate this big event as part of main ISPs in Kuwait .

What I liked also the Panasonic 103″ Plasma was there by yousifi company .

Now bye bye thanaweya 3ama students . no more waiting like this going crazy for the results All this after 50 Years of Thanaweya 3ama .

KNET and the e-payment project

When I was checking e-gov

i found that MOF started testing KNET payment gateway on their site and here is the link .

update : the agreement copy here
and i also toke a copy and upload it here

Sinning the agreement of offering Governmental Electronic payment services between Knet and Ministry of finance

The Ministry of Finance signed, on Thursday 8th of May 2008, an agreement with K-Net whereby the latter will offer electronic payment services for collecting state fees, in a step toward transforming to the e-government system.

The News in Ministry of Finance Site

The News in KNET site

I think this is big step toward e-payment and I hope hackers don’t show up when the smell chance of stealing money online.

A PIN (Personal Identification Number) is a 4 digit number used to authenticate a PIN holder with a valid Civil-Id number.

- Any citizen who is resident in Kuwait and is over 18 years of age is entitled to a PIN.

- An 8 character alpha/numeric password is issued with every PIN, to enable the PIN holder to activate or change the PIN number.

What does PIN authentication mean?

PIN Authentication is an electronic process enables a Civil-Id holder to have the facility to use online information from a Private or Governmental Organization via the Internet.

The PIN will be authenticated against the PIN holder’s Civil-Id Number, if the authentication is successful, the individual will be granted access to the information.

The combination of PIN, Password and Civil-Id Number give the individual single point access from the Internet to several Government Ministries and Public Authority applications.

How do I get my PIN?

The PIN is obtained by visiting the PACI offices in South Surra.

By presenting a valid Civil-Id card a PACI representative will process the request and issue a computer generated PIN and PASSWORD..

This will be delivered in a sealed envelope and should not be viewed by anyone other than the owner.

I got my password from InfoConnect exhibition and i login

There Three Places Give Electronic Service Through ePin which are :
1- Public Authority Of Civil Information ( eKuwait another link epin )
2- Ministry Of Education.
3- The Public Institution for Social Security.

1-Public Authority Of Civil Information
give you service where you can check all your family civil id and when one them will expires even if you have maid on your civil id it will show up like the following:

3- The Public Institution for Social Security.
You Can Check your sallary information and you can order certificates online.

2- Ministry Of Education
Link is not working but i heard from the radio that the manager of PACI said that they will work it out with MOE .

And Also they are looking forward to make their service work with MOI
Because i also saw that giving passwords for public to access some service for “Preventing travel Inquiry” using :
username: user_CivilID
pass:*****
I think that it is better to use SSI (Single Sign On) using PACI system.

Ministry Of Defence Won 1st prize in infoconnect exhibition .

There sites:
Ministry Of Defence
Ministry Of Defence 2

They won the prize for cutomizing program called Tasaheel . This program make all the documents electonics there is no more paper work very very good.

update:

Ministry Of Finance won 2nd Place

You can see in kuna news here

I was looking for news from kuwait contest. I was shocked that i found the Kuwait Contest Official WebSite is down ??!!

It suppose to be the committee that rank sites . They suppose to be better than this .

We have saying in Arabic “Bab Alnajar Mkhala3″

Click Here and you will see what i mean.