{"id":254579,"date":"2025-09-04T02:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=254579"},"modified":"2025-09-05T02:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T00:42:32","slug":"al-shawesh-these-are-the-reasons-behind-the-stumbling-of-the-state-digitization-project-despite-billions-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/al-shawesh-these-are-the-reasons-behind-the-stumbling-of-the-state-digitization-project-despite-billions-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Shawesh: &#8220;These Are the Reasons Behind the Stumbling of the State Digitization Project Despite Billions Spent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The economic affairs observer <em>Rafi Al-Shawesh<\/em> wrote: &#8220;The project to digitize state sectors and link them through an integrated network, aiming to improve the quality of services provided to citizens, is a massive national project and one of the strategic pillars for transitioning to a smart government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, despite the massive investments spent on it\u2014estimated in the billions\u2014its impact is still not tangible on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is due to a set of fundamental challenges, most notably:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legislative and political vacuum:<\/strong><br>The absence of a clear and integrated legislative and political framework that defines objectives, regulates relations between sectors, and provides an enabling environment for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Shared economic and financial identity:<\/strong><br>The lack of a unified financial and economic vision that reflects clear national priorities and ensures investments are directed toward specific, measurable goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Absence of comprehensive strategic planning:<\/strong><br>The lack of a clear strategic plan with defined phases, indicators, and outputs, which would unify efforts and mobilize resources to achieve a shared vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Weak governance and leadership:<\/strong><br>The absence of a unified central authority or body with sufficient powers and high competence to assume the task of setting the digital strategy and directly supervising its implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the current situation, it can be described by the popular saying:<br><em>&#8220;Move with the stick and give to Masoud.&#8221;<\/em><br>So Masoud, the struggling citizen, accepts anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic affairs observer Rafi Al-Shawesh wrote: &#8220;The project to digitize state sectors and link them through an integrated network, aiming to improve the quality of services provided to citizens, is a massive national project and one of the strategic pillars for transitioning to a smart government. However, despite the massive investments spent on it\u2014estimated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":254580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[683],"tags":[1048,636,613],"class_list":["post-254579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-articles","tag-digitization","tag-economy","tag-libya"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254582,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254579\/revisions\/254582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}