Saudi Arabia's Absher Challenge adds a third track for remote services

RIYADH: The organizing committee of the Absher Challenge has announced the launching of a third category involving remote communication. The challenge is an initiative aimed at encouraging members of the public to help to develop Ministry of the Interior’s services.
The project aims to encourage people who have creative ideas to contribute to developing the ministry’s electronic services and fieldwork through enriching the culture of innovation and the employment of modern technologies.
The Absher Challenge’s first two tracks were: Creativity in support of an existing electronic service offered by the Ministry of Interior, either through improving its procedures or by adding new axes, including field services, and improving the users’ experience; and Innovation in developing a new service for the ministry, whether in a traditional way, or through a new creative service needed by the beneficiaries (individuals, businesses, government).
The new third track is: Creativity with new remote services provided by the ministry in times of crisis.
This third category is to encourage creative technical solutions that facilitate the provision of services and support the security services in emergency situations that require less interpersonal communication and more remote communication.