Kuwait: Zain, the main virtual carrier supplier in Kuwait, took phase in the yearly rite and exhibition of H.H. Sheikh Salem Al Ali Al Sabah Informatics Award held at Bayan Palace, all 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 H.H. the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah and attended by way of H.H. the Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah.
The rite was once attended by way of representatives of the 3 companions at the back of the app: Zain Kuwait CEO Eaman Al Roudhan, Director Common of the Central Company for Data Era (CAIT) Haya Al Wadani, CAIT Deputy Director Common for Data Era 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 reputation. The corporate advanced the app in 2020 in joint collaboration with the Central Company for Data Era (CAIT) and the Ministry of Well being (MOH), with enhance from Kuwaiti volunteers and executive entities all through the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate house quarantines.
This prestigious award has had immense patronage from H.H. the past due Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah and continues to obtain beneficiant enhance from its founder H.H. 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 by way of Zain’s group in joint collaboration with the Central Company for Data Era (CAIT) and underneath direct supervision from the Ministry of Well being. The app’s building and release got here in a moderately brief time frame that coincided with the start of the rustic’s evacuation plan to go back hundreds of Kuwaiti voters again house in the beginning of the pandemic.
All through April 2020, particularly all through the start of the evacuation plan’s first section, Zain advanced ‘Shlonik’ (which interprets to ‘how are you’ within the Kuwaiti dialect) app for smartphones to enhance the large efforts exerted by way of 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 group.
‘Shlonik’ applied the newest tech answers to observe 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 crucial device to pair with the good wrist bracelet that was once dispensed at Kuwait World Airport to someone who underwent house quarantine.
‘Shlonik’ will 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 way of their telephone and civil ID numbers. The app options an interactive COVID-19 evaluation agent to assist every consumer know what to do subsequent.
The Qualification Committee and Judging Panel of H.H. Sheikh Salem Al Ali Al Sabah Informatics Award held more than a few digital classes to check a complete of 308 initiatives from Kuwait and the Arab Global. The classes has resulted within the nomination of 25 initiatives to the judging panel, which consisted of many consultants and professionals from 8 other Arab international locations to make a choice the winners. 9 tech initiatives gained the award for his or her creativity and innovation.