1. National e-Government
Green IT Strategy
Dr. Zakareya Ahmed Al Khaja
Greener & Smarter ICT 2012
Kingdom of Bahrain
16th May 2012

2. Agenda
• New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
o Vision
o Strategic Objectives
o Achievements
o Green IT Strategy
• Case Studies
o Integrated Workflow Management System
o Comprehensive Return of Investment
o Re-engineered Services

3. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Vision – ADVANCE
“To Achieve next generation Government excellence; Deliver high quality services effectively; Value efficiency;
Advocate proactive customer engagement; Nurture entrepreneurship; Collaborate with all stakeholders; and
Encourage innovation”
A chieve next generation Government excellence
D eliver high quality services effectively
V alue efficiency
A dvocate proactive customer engagement
N urture entrepreneurship
C ollaborate with all stakeholders
E ncourage innovation

4. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Strategic Objectives
1 2
Increase society participation
Obtain greater innovation and entrepreneurship
and engagement
3
Maintain a higher performing, collaborative, integrated,
and efficient government
4 5
Sustain a heightened protection of Uphold comprehensive and effectively-
information and user rights managed quality service offering
6
Increase partnerships and private sector ICT readiness
7 8
Improve national eLiteracy and government Enhance eGovernment channels and user-
IT skills experience with increased service-uptake

5. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Green IT Strategy Overview
Key Element 1: Greening Key Element 2: Going
IT Green through IT
 Reducing the environmental  Applying green IT solutions to
footprint of IT equipment Green IT make other activities more
Includes data center Strategy environmentally friendly
consolidation, advanced cooling, Includes implementing tele-
and server virtualization Key commuting technologies to
Elements reduce unnecessary travel,
deploying green transportation
planning systems and moving
operations online
Key Element 3: Green IT Governance
 Policies, Standards, Guidelines and Procedures
 Green Compliant Technology Architecture
 Green Reporting (using IT)
 Green Awareness and Training

6. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Key Element 1: Greening IT
“Greening IT” aims to lower, via three key levers, the considerable emissions indirectly caused by IT energy needs
CO2 Emissions caused by IT Key Levers for Greening IT
(Benchmarking 2008)
1
Energy Efficient Data
 2% of Global CO2 emissions are
caused by IT - this is close to the Center
Facilities, Servers, Storage
global emissions of the entire
2 Greening
airline industry
Energy Efficient IT Equipment IT
 IT drives CO2 emissions merely
Desktops, Printers
indirectly by its energy
consumption 3
 According to expert estimates, Greening IT Lifecycle Mgmt
80% of environmental pollution Plan, Build, Run, Recycle ...
caused by IT is due to energy
consumption

7. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Key Element 2: Going Green through IT
Software solutions for energy, buildings, travel & documentation can be used to assist the Kingdom in “Going
Green through IT”
Energy Buildings
 Increasing demand for renewable  IT can be used to effectively manage
energies building utilities,
 Investigate solutions such as Smart-Grids  Develop and implement standards for
 Handle through the IT and business building control systems as part of the
strategies for EWA shared services strategy
Going
Green
Through IT
Transportation Documentation
 Improve fuel efficiency and sustainability Move away from a paper based
of travel environment towards a digital
 Investigate need to implement fleet environment through
management systems to manage  Ongoing business process re-
Government vehicles engineering
 IT strategy for Ministry of Transportation  Shared digital archiving and document
should investigate solutions for Route management technologies
management technology and Public  eFax software and Video conferencing
traffic management solutions

8. New eGovernment National Strategy 2016
Key Element 3: Green IT Governance
An effective Green IT Governance Framework is required to ensure success of the Green IT Strategy

9. Case Studies

10. Case study 1: Integrated Workflow Management System
Entity X Archive
Attachments
680 + 20 pages
Issued document
700 pages Issued document
50 page
700 pages
Zajel handles the 100 pages
Entity Y Archive
interaction between the
parliament and the
government using the
principle Government-to- 100 pages 750 pages
Government (G2G).
Issued document
Issued document 150 pages
100 pages
900 pages Entity W Archive
Attachments
Attachments
680 + 20 + 50 +150 pages 680 + 20 + 50 pages
Entity Z Archive

11. Case study 1: Integrated Workflow Management System
700 pages
(pdf document)
Zajel Archive
100 pages Process Documents 50 pages
(pdf document) (pdf document)
150 pages
(pdf document)

12. Case Study 2: Comprehensive Return of Investment
The eGovernment Authority has developed a comprehensive Return
of Investment (ROI) model that will analyze business, financial,
sociological and environmental benefits of each eService being
developed. The environmental aspects include:
Greenhouse Gas Emission Fuel Saved Papers and Trees

13. Case Study 3: Re-engineered Services
Electricity & Water eBilling service
Before
Read meter
and upload Generate bill Print bill Mail bill
data
Pay bill
online or Receive bill
Deliver Bill
offline by post
After
Read meter
Print
and upload Generate bill Mail bill
bill
data
Note: Users can view Pay bill
their bill history at any Receive bill
online or Deliver Bill
point electronically
offline

14. Case Study 3: Re-engineered Services
Service enables customers to view and pay Electricity and Water bills online with the ability to
register to receive the bill by email on monthly basis
Future Savings
Criteria Factor Current State
25% eBill Generation 50% eBill Generation
Human Resources BHD 73,855.380 p.a. BHD 11,087.520 p.a. BHD 22,175.050 p.a.
Paper BHD 887,910.550 p.a. BHD 221,977.640 p.a. BHD 443,955.270 p.a.
Cost Rent BHD 21,611.460 p.a. Nil Nil
Post BHD 355,117.320 p.a. BHD 92,493.070 p.a. BHD 180,039.510 p.a.
Total BHD 1,338,494.720 p.a. BHD 325,558.240 p.a. BHD 646,169.840 p.a.
Environment Trees used for 8000 reams cost 480 2000 reams cost 120 4000 reams cost 240
4,000,000 bills in 2008 trees trees trees
Trees used for
7000 reams cost 420 1750 ream cost 105 3500 reams cost 210
3,500,000 envelopes in
trees trees trees
2008
Faster and convenient
Payment of bills online
Customer delivery of bills Increase customer
Electronic bill history satisfaction
Avoid lost bills in post
records

15. Thank you