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DALLAS, Dec. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's strategic e-government initiative needed a strong security foundation to instill trust in its more citizen-centric environment -- especially as it rolled out its new national ID card initiative. To address this challenge, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) standardized on two solutions from Entrust, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTU) in conjunction with Entrust local partner Moammar Information Systems. MCIT will leverage Entrust Authority PKI and Entrust Entelligence Messaging Server for encryption, digital signatures and authentication capabilities to underpin its national ID project, as well as secure e-mail.
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In the meantime, the Kingdom has already prepared comprehensive humanitarian assistance in the form of foodstuffs, medicine and shelter to deal with a potential large influx of refugees. In 1991, Saudi Arabia cared for more than 150,000 refugees from neighboring countries. If this scenario again arises, the Kingdom will do everything it can to provide for them.
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is being built in Saudi Arabia as an international, graduate-level research university dedicated to inspiring a new age of scientific achievement in the Kingdom, across the region and around the globe. As an independent, merit-based institution, KAUST will employ many of the best practices from leading research universities and enable top researchers from around the globe and across all cultures to work together to solve challenging scientific and technological issues. The KAUST global research and education network will support diverse talents both on its campus and at other premier universities and research institutions through collaborative research agreements, grants, and student scholarship programs. The core campus, located on more than 36 million square meters on the Red Sea at Thuwal, is set to open in September 2009. For more information about KAUST, visit http://www.kaust.edu.sa .
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Logica today announced that the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) has selected it to provide a new payments network solution to enable electronic funds transfers in the Kingdom. The new initiative, which is a multi-million dollar commitment and will be at the heart of SAMA's business, will be supplied, implemented, and supported by Logica in partnership with Oasis Technology.
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