KUWAIT: Zain, the main virtual provider supplier in Kuwait, took phase in the once a year rite and exhibition of HH Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award held at Bayan Palace, all the way through which the Shlonik app was once identified for profitable the Informatics Award on the 20th version again in 2020. The development was once held underneath the patronage of HH the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and attended through HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
The rite was once attended through representatives of the 3 companions in the back of the app: Zain Kuwait CEO Eaman Al-Roudhan, Director Basic of the Central Company for Data Generation (CAIT) Haya Al-Wadani, CAIT Deputy Director Basic for Data Generation Dr Amaar Al-Hussaini, and Assistant Undersecretary for Public Well being Affairs on the Ministry of Well being Dr Buthaina Al-Mudhaf.
Zain expressed its satisfaction on this high-level popularity. The corporate advanced the app in 2020 in joint collaboration with the Central Company for Data Generation (CAIT) and the Ministry of Well being (MOH), with strengthen from Kuwaiti volunteers and executive entities all the way through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate house quarantines.
This prestigious award has had immense patronage from HH the overdue Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and continues to obtain beneficiant strengthen from its founder HH Leader of the Kuwait Nationwide Guard Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah. The truth that ‘Shlonik’ has gained this award displays the fruitful unified efforts of Kuwait’s private and non-private sectors.
‘Shlonik’ was once advanced through Zain’s workforce in joint collaboration with the Central Company for Data Generation (CAIT) and underneath direct supervision from the Ministry of Well being. The app’s building and release got here in a moderately brief time period that coincided with the start of the rustic’s evacuation plan to go back hundreds of Kuwaiti voters again house originally of the pandemic.
All over April 2020, particularly all the way through the start of the evacuation plan’s first segment, Zain advanced ‘Shlonik’ (which interprets to ‘how are you’ within the Kuwaiti dialect) app for smartphones to strengthen the large efforts exerted through the government to take on the pandemic. The app was once designed with world-class requirements in thoughts, with direct and steady supervision from the Ministry of Well being’s workforce.
‘Shlonik’ applied the most recent tech answers to watch the compliance of voters who returned to Kuwait as a part of the federal government’s evacuation plan in house quarantine directions. The app was once additionally an very important instrument to pair with the good wrist bracelet that was once dispensed at Kuwait Global Airport to somebody who underwent house quarantine.
‘Shlonik’ may also be downloaded from Apple’s App Retailer, Google’s Play Retailer, and Huawei’s App Gallery, and is to be had in 5 other languages: Arabic, English, Urdu, Tagalog, and Bengali. Customers can join by the use of their telephone and civil ID numbers. The app options an interactive COVID-19 evaluate agent to lend a hand each and every consumer know what to do subsequent.
The Qualification Committee and Judging Panel of HH Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award held quite a lot of digital periods to review a complete of 308 tasks from Kuwait and the Arab International. The periods have resulted within the nomination of 25 tasks to the judging panel, which consisted of many consultants and mavens from 8 other Arab nations to make a choice the winners. 9 tech tasks received the award for his or her creativity and innovation.