Yesser and World Bank Group Jointly Host Webinar on Post-Covid-19 Technology-Driven Business Transformation

Yesser and World Bank Group Jointly Host Webinar on Post-Covid-19 Technology-Driven Business Transformation

The CEO of the e-Government Program (Yesser) Engineer Ali bin Nasser Al-Asiri stated that it endeavors to transfer the best global practices to Saudi Arabia to ensure business continuity in the Kingdom's government agencies in the post-Covid-19 era. Engineer Al-Asiri's comments came as he inaugurated the webinar titled "From Remote Work to Smart Work“ and organized by the program in partnership with the World Bank Group (WBG) virtually on Tuesday, February 2, 2021, with the participation of a group of government decision-makers, experts, and academics from the Kingdom and around the world. During the webinar, Engineer Al-Asiri indicated that there is a dire need to determine the global successful experiences related to work in light of the effects of the pandemic and its aftermath, as well as to explore the prospect of adopting them to support and empower the government sector considering its vital role in advancing national development. He added that Yesser is keen on benefiting from the latest technologies in order to achieve this objective, pointing out that technology offered a lifeline to countries to overcome all the challenges caused by the pandemic, as evidenced by more than 142 million technology-enabled service exchange processes between government agencies in the