[30/March/2008]

SANA'A, March 30 (Saba) - Interior Minister Rashad al-Alimi said that the government is working to issue a draft law for combating electronic crimes.

In a symposium on "progress towards building infrastructure for Yemeni geographic database", al-Alimi said that the internet made big changes in ways of collecting, saving, dealing and publishing geographical information to be as a public service.

He added that the project of building infrastructure for geographic database in the country is a national initiative to unify the various geographic data, pointing out the project would offer standards, policies, databases and technical measures to support the process of geographic information exchange among concerned bodies.

Al-Alimi urged all government bodies in cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology to bring this project into success to serve development in the nation.

The two-day symposium would discuss the role of information technology in various applications and current situation for the geographical information system in the country in addition to showing the experiences of some participating countries in this regard.

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