E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Beirut, July 2003 BY Hazem M. Aboulfadl UNPAN Consultant Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Overview  ARADO is one of Arab League organizations that is responsible for the Administrative Activities, Administrative Development and Management domain in the entire Arab World.  Countries under ARADO supervision: Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Aim  Increase the e-Document inputs to UNPAN Document System  Provide electronic Information covering the administration and management field in the Arab world  Help organization to benefit of the most latest studies in administration field by providing many of the latest studies and researches, in addition to convert and archive the old materials and studies Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Provide e-services to help improving the administration and management field in Arab world

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role  Electronic Document.  ARADO inputs to UNPAN Document System. Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Comparison between organizations inputs in Arab World  Electronic Information (Dynamic Content).  Provided Databases.  Used Technologies.  E-Conferencing and Online Training Steps to provide the Electronic materials  UNPAN Project IT Back Office at ARADO

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > Electronic Document  ARADO inputs to UNPAN Document System Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > Electronic Document  Comparison between organizations inputs in Arab States Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > Electronic Document  Steps to provide the Electronic materials Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Scan the documents to convert it to an electronic image format (JPG, GIF)  Covert the scanned documents to an electronic word-processing format (word or PDF format) Document’s size Enhancement using text compression technology, to reach the size between 300KB – 5 MB.  Suggest the keywords and titles. Upload the documents to UNPAN Document System based on the renaming system using the provided forms.

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > Electronic Information  Provided Databases Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Contacts Database  Experts Database Legislation Database

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > Electronic Information  Used Technologies Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Data Mining and Data Warehousing  Database Indexing ASP and ASP.Net  Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic.Net COM and Scriplets

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > E-Conferencing and Online Training  What to be provided: Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  E-Conferencing hall for conference broadcast  Online Training Labs for long distance learning and training E-Hall 1- Equipment. 2- Leased Line. 3- E-Terminals 1- Tech. Support. 2- Operators. 3- Translation Unit. Audio/Visual Broadcasting Unit Client Client Main Meeting/Training Room

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Role > UNPAN Project IT Back Office at ARADO Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO) - ASP Programmers - Graphics Designers - Hardware Maintenance - Server Administrators E-Information Database Server Data Update Unit Scanning Unit Data Entry Data Control UNPAN Documents System Data Mining Unit E-Documents ARADO IT Back Office – UNPAN Project Technical Support Unit

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme Future Plans  Electronic Document ARADO is planning to provide more electronic materials to UNPAN Document System to reach 150 documents every month (1800 document per year) by year 2005 and to be increased to 250 document (3000 document per year) by year Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Electronic Information (Dynamic Content)  Arab Management Science Citation Index (ARAMSI)  ARADO Dissertation Portal  UNPAN Project IT Back Office at ARADO ARADO Book Store for Arab Administrative Books and Studies  Hire more IT Specialists and Internet Portal Professionals  Purchase Hardware and Software Tools to Increase the efficiency of the IT Units and information handling teams

E-information Management in Public Administration via the UNPAN Programme ARADO’s Recommendation Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)  Add E-Conferencing capabilities to UNPAN website  Add an Online Training section to UNPAN website

Thank you Hazem M. Aboulfadl UNPAN Consultant Arab Administrative Development Organization (ARADO)