Project Details


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Leverages Automation deliver IT-as-a-Service to Realize Saudi Vision 2030


Description

Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA), has successfully deployed Converged Infrastructure solutions to deliver IT-as-a-Service and realize their ambitious goals for Saudi Vision 2030.
According to the National Transformation Program 2020, set to develop the capabilities needed to achieve the goals of Vision 2030, MEWA’s core strategic objectives are centered on improving financial efficiency, enhancing service quality, supporting national companies and contributing to diversification. With such a critical role to play in the nation’s innovation agenda, MEWA aimed to automate its data center and create a centralized platform to host and deliver agile digital services, enabling all three ministries (Agriculture, Water & Environment) to unlock new efficiencies to meet the demands of the national vision.

Project website

http://www.mewa.gov.sa


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Coverage
  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bangladesh
  • Bahamas
  • Bhutan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Central African Republic
  • Canada
  • Czech Republic
  • Chad (Republic of)
  • Chile
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Comoros
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cape Verde (Republic of)
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Gambia (Republic of the)
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Ireland
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Liberia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malaysia
  • Mauritius
  • Marshall Islands
  • Malta
  • Mauritania
  • Republic of North Macedonia
  • Maldives
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Mali
  • Malawi
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro (Republic of)
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal (Republic of)
  • Niger
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Congo
  • Qatar
  • Korea (Rep. of)
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • Samoa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serbia
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • San Marino
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somali (Democratic Republic)
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • South Sudan
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Slovenia
  • Kingdom of Eswatini
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tunisia
  • Türkiye (Republic of)
  • Tuvalu
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
  • Ukraine
  • Russian Federation
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Uruguay
  • United States of America
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Viet Nam
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Status

Completed

Start date

03 February 2018

End date

15 August 2018


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • Citizens and MEWA staff

WSIS values promotion

The virtualization project improved overall operational effectiveness in MEWA, by running many applications on a single physical converged solution, we are able to bring down hardware and license costs. By reducing the amount of hardware, we also reduce the rate of failure. By having a unified interface for accessing all of our systems, and by having a reduced number of physical servers we are able greatly simplify our system and its management. By eliminating many physical machines we reduce power consumption, cooling requirements, and space requirements. System resources used to virtualized new web and smart application operating systems compared to total system resources available. Network speed and ping time compared to previous state are improved with efficiency in speed and connectivity


Entity name

Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (mewa)

Entity country—type

Saudi Arabia Government

Entity website

http://www.mewa.gov.sa

Partners

EMC