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Services digitized
Digitization is already being tracked as a public output, not just a policy promise.
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Pillar brief
Responsible State Agencies
This pillar is the state-capacity layer of Vision 2040. It decides whether plans stay as rhetoric or turn into faster approvals, cleaner institutions, and better project discipline.
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Services simplified
Simplification matters because a digital bad process is still a bad process.
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Governance index rank in the latest official report
The long-run target is rank 20, so state-capacity improvement still has a long runway.
Target frame
What Oman is trying to do
- Improve government efficiency, project delivery, regulatory quality, and oversight across the state machinery.
- Make service delivery faster, cleaner, and more digital without pushing complexity back onto residents or businesses.
- Strengthen accountability around resource allocation, public projects, and institution-level performance.
Current read
Where execution stands now
- Oman has real forward motion here: a performance and follow-up unit, Ejada-style productivity work, service digitization, service simplification, and modernised data and open-data policies are all on the board.
- The weak point is still depth of transparency. Output counts are improving faster than public visibility into timelines, service quality, failed projects, or agency-level execution gaps.
- This pillar is also the hinge for almost every other one. If it improves materially, many economic and social targets become easier to hit.
Regional lens
How the UAE and Saudi files compare
UAE comparison
- The UAE digital government strategy set sharper public service targets earlier, including 100 percent digitized services, 90 percent on a unified platform, and 90 percent customer satisfaction.
- That raises the competitive bar for Oman from simple digitization counts to end-to-end service experience.
Saudi comparison
- Saudi has formalised a Digital Government Strategy for 2023-2030 and has been using national digital identity, once-only principles, and shared platforms as state-capacity multipliers.
- The regional benchmark is now less about whether governments digitize and more about whether they can integrate, automate, and publish cleaner performance signals.
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