Dr. Al Aamer said that government departments are teeming with many success stories which call for pride, citing the role of Bahrain Center for Excellence in promoting progress, development and excellence in the public sector, referring to dedication of government officials and personnel who achieved aspirations of the Bahraini people successfully with divine grace.
These remarks came during a presentation by Dr. Mohammed Al Aamer on the successful implementation story of the General Census, using administrative records of the Kingdom of Bahrain, which was completed last October. This as an example of one of the success stories of government departments verified by the “Success Stories Forum” organized by Bahrain Center for Excellence at the Regency Intercontinental Hotel on Monday.
Dr. Al Aamer stressed on the values, processes and strategies that help to achieve the success of the General Census project, which was received with an international acclamation.
“The GCC countries are also keen to benefit from our experience of using the administrative records in public enumeration,” he said.
Al Aamer said that the success of the census cements the high national values of transparency, competitiveness, sustainability, methodology and optimal use of the state-the-art technologies, pointing out that no success stories are absolutely free of any challenges or obstacles. Dr. Al Aamer pointed out that the obstacles and challenges encountered by the enumeration teams were surmounted, of which, he said was the lack of integrated databases and using remote sensing technology for the first time in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the region as a whole, in addition to time standards available to complete the project, as well as the lack of staff.
All such obstacles and challenges have been overcome through conducting field tours to cover the shortage of data and to feed the system with auditing rules to ensure data accuracy, assisted by teachers and university graduates as well as unemployed people to fill the shortage of staff in addition to overtime working and the establishment of telecommunications center.
To maintain confidentiality of data modern electronic security measures have been utilized in order to prevent any data leakage.
Dr. Al Aamer emphasized that the success story of the public census had left an indelible mark in this field in the Kingdom of Bahrain, replacing traditional maps with electronic maps, curtailing the number of processes in a single operation in order to feed data, exploiting technology and human resources optimally, broadcasting data on the Internet, and lessening costs of making data available to citizens and users on the basis of reliance on remote sensing technology.