Planning & Development  

Human Resources Development Strategy » Information Sector

Information plays an important role in furthering the religious, social, cultural and economic awareness of the public through the mass media and recently through the internet. The state seeks to raise the public awareness through mass media in order to accentuate the traditional principles and values and link the citizens with their heritage. This link is to provide an incentive for building the present and looking forward into the future. The other private (non-governmental) sectors seek to broaden the awareness scope of the various community categories as well as the wider scope of viewers and readers and concerned people at regional and international levels. The private sector also seeks to illustrate the characteristics of the Omani experience and details that have been experienced by the country since the dawn of the blessed renaissance. The enhancement of information apparatus with its different systems (using a proper mechanism together with providing it

with the best skills and capacities according to a flexible sectoral plan that ensure appropriate investment of resources) shall upgrade the sector performance at a rate consistent with the modern era and commensurate with the developments witnessed in this vital field of knowledge activity.

The Vision for the information sector is based on provision of advanced information system in terms of form and substance so as to cope with the economic and social development process witnessed internally by the country. The vision shall enable the sector to enter into the new millennium filled with confidence and capacity while depending on the national inputs and trained and qualified Omani workforce. The sector also strives to acquire the advanced information technology as the world became a small village because of the satellites technology and the expansion of the internet which crossed the borders of time and geography, Thus posing new challenges