Objectives
In
attempt to expand its solution and services to region, Safa Rayaneh seeks to reach
the following objectives:
- Implementing
SARA Virtual City
in major cities, to help them move towards e-Government and converge
governmental and private urban service providers, in accordance with government's
IT policies and objectives
- Turning
the SARA Virtual
City to a well-known brand; a
multi-lingual, customizable and ready-to-export solution as an eastern
technology, taking into account big budgets in recent years for e-Government
project in the region, such as 800M USD in Saudi Arabia put 150 services
online by 2010
- Making
e-Government services publicly accessible for citizens of any adopting country
- Cooperating
with governments to create an encouraging environment in order to stimulate a
knowledge-based community. We are ready to cooperate with any governmental or
private organization to hit this target, which is also a key part of any all-inclusive
e-Government system. We will provide people with different ways and devices to
interact with government, in order to receiving urban services and give feedback,
through a solid technological solution
- Providing
value-added services for the cities which mainly have or can potentially
benefit from a rich tourism-based economy
Expectation
Our
expectations from our future partners are:
- Facilitating
relationship between government and Safa Rayaneh
- Having
at least one implementation in the country, as a successful example of the
solution's flexibility, customizability and usability
- Having
support to make the governmental culture ready to adopt the solution and to encourage
citizens to use its services
- Getting
supported by government in marketing the solution in the region, because of the
need of G2G relationships in exporting e-Government solutions
Major Benefits
A
list of benefits of the system can be categorized as follows, although a
focused study is required for adopting country, in order to determine the local
effect on performance of existing systems in use. (A demo clip is also
provided, in order to demonstrate the "before" and "after"
status in a sample environment):
- Government-wide
urban planning and information management - Main objective of designers of SARA
Virtual City has been finding the most critical points in all governmental
bodies for the purpose of cost reduction and paving the road toward connecting
all of bodies into a unique data center. In case of SARA's implementation in Iran, and based
on official studies, Over 70% of all base data created by each urban service
provider is related to property information. This is the root of many incompatibilities
and main reason for unnecessarily repeated activities. SARA Virtual
City is basically
designed as a property management system that enables the urban service
providers to benefit from the common and shared data and to move their systems
toward a connected structure of a powerful e-Government.
- Public
access - One of the main points of focus of e-Government solutions is
maximizing number of users. There are many programs to increase computer-literate
people or increase penetration rate of internet users in order to link the
people with e-Government services. In this regard, we have tried to leverage
the power of different user-friendly interfaces, as well as some hardware devices
to make a wide interaction with public.
Results
Implementing
SARA Virtual City,
using its data center plan will result in the following:
- Benefiting
from a 3D virtual environment, which visualizes actual appearance of city, in
place of traditional forms and flat maps
- Providing
transparency in functionality of governmental and non-governmental parties in
public works, and therefore helping in reducing corruption
- Benefiting
from the most recent and proven technologies for transmitting data and keeping
it up to date
- Reducing
activities needed for collecting, processing and updating data center, in
municipalities, as main source of property data
- Eliminating
human resources needed to perform activities mentioned above, in all
governmental bodies which are using the shared base property data that is
originally created by municipalities
- Reducing
data volume, and as a result cost of hardware, storage and related resources by
%70+ in urban service provider organizations which join the shared data pool
- Canalizing
data registration and applying data ownership and security for participants in
data center
- Increasing
accuracy of property data and avoiding redundancy in different public works organizations
- Availability
of continuously updated data, instead of periodically collected data, which is
carried out annually or less frequently and in some cases twice a decade
- Unification
of application of laws and regulations and reduction in corruption, using a
special component for defining rules
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