Sultanate of Oman Wins H.H. Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award
Sultanate of Oman Wins H.H. Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award
28 June 2022
The Sultanate of Oman, represented by the Ministry of Health (MOH), won on Monday the H.H. Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award at its 20th session for the Tarassud Plus project at Bayan Palace in Kuwait under the auspices of H.H. Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Emir of Kuwait.
The Tarassud+ won this award as one of the best projects develops the human capacities in the field of information development.
The Sultanate's delegation included H.E. Dr. Fatma bint Mohammed Al-Ajmi, Undersecretary of Ministry of Health for Administrative, Financial & Planning Affairs, along with Bader Sulaiman Awlad Thani, Director General of Information Technology.
Tarassud+ is the official Covid-19 application of the Sultanate of Oman for citizens/residents/travelers to Oman. The Ministry of Health, Oman, developed and maintained the app and provides features like digital vaccination certificates, RT PCR results, and Covid-19-related statistics.
Furthermore, the application provides awareness materials, alerts, decisions and detection of isolated persons.
In addition, through Tarassud+, the user can access the lab test results, vaccination details, as well as immunization certificate by using the QR code.