Salem Al Shair, eServices Director, Dubai eGovernment has been named ‘Young CEO of the Year’ at the Third Middle East CEO of the Year Awards that were announced yesterday (Wednesday, March 22, 2006), at the Burj Al Arab, Dubai. The award was presented by Joschka Fischer, former German Deputy Chancellor and Foreign Minister and Anwar Ibrahim, former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia.
The ‘Young CEO of the Year’ award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated vision and leadership to take their organisation to a new level of growth, achievement and recognition.
It recognizes professionals and individuals who have demonstrated excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance, and personal commitment to their businesses and communities. The winner is selected based on performance and track record in areas such as: the CEO's skills and contribution; financial, marketing, operations and development management; and involvement in the community, environment and region.
“Winning this award is indeed an honour for me and although this is an individual award, it is a reflection of the commitment shown by everyone at Dubai eGovernment to achieve the highest standards of electronic governance,” said Salem Al Shair. “The success achieved by Dubai eGovernment in recent years in promoting the adoption of eServices among Dubai’s residents, has been commendable, especially at a time when Dubai is progressing towards the formation of a digital society.”
The Middle East CEO of the Year Awards, instituted by Datamatix, honours the career achievements of extraordinary CEO’s from the Government, Industry, Service Sector, Banking & Finance, Information & Communication Technology sectors as well as the best young CEO and woman CEO from the Middle East.
Ali Mohammed Al Kamali, Head of Organising Committee, Datamatix, said, “The main objective of these awards is to recognise inspirational leaders in the region who have played a major role in taking their organisations to new levels of excellence and efficiency. Salem Al Shair fully deserves this award as he has been a driving force behind Dubai eGovernment and its initiatives in Dubai, which have resulted in the provision of a host of electronic services to the people of Dubai. I congratulate Salem on winning this award and wish him and his team at Dubai eGovernment the very best.”
Dubai eGovernment is a pioneering initiative in the region to provide online services across the spectrum of corporate and community life in the emirate. It also has a vision to integrateindividually automated government departments under the single umbrella of the eGovernment initiative, thus empowering employees across lines of businesses and levels of government, besides facilitating the lives of citizens and customers of the government. Dubai has taken a lead in the region in deploying eGovernment applications and is among the first few governments in the world to provide such integrated services to its citizens. The eGovernment portal (www.dubai.ae) is a single contact point masking the complexity of the bureaucratic procedures, and guiding access to all services in the easiest possible way. In addition, the eGovernment initiative seeks to improve and enhance procedures by maximizing the benefit from technology, so that users from all walks of life will be able to utilize the portal for their specific needs with considerable ease.
