Invest Easy

The Invest Easy (One Stop Shop) is an online portal that enables business owners and investors to get the business procedures done easily in a short time.

This project is headed by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MOCI). The project is a joint initiative with participation of ITA and 5 other government entities:

Ministry of Manpower.
Royal Oman Police.
Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Oman Chamber of Commerce.
Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs.

The Invest Easy is aiming at achieving the following:

More efficient licensing and registration processes.
A single login for Government circulations, information and online services related to business.
Online access to the portal 24/7 and transactions can be paid online through the ePayment Gateway.
Multi-channel access points to services: web application, mobile application, web services, and service providers like SANAD, lawyers and auditors.
A secure environment where businesses can conduct secure transactions.

Invest Easy

The project contract was signed on 8th of December 2013 and it was planned to be executed as 6 milestones where each milestone is to take 4 months duration to be achieved. In each milestone, a new mobile app version will be launched and a refreshed website with a new set of services will be implemented. At the current stage of the project, all six milestones are achieved successfully.

Statistics

At the moment the project has launched the following:

77 e-services and 6 versions of the Invest Easy portal.
25 mobile services and 6 versions of the mobile app.
The project has initiated a call center.
The project has established the first e-Services Support Center in Oman.
The e-services launched are used already by over 260,000 users.
The 23 entities who are integrated has consumed over 6 million data.

Recognitions:

Certificate of highest grade from the Global Entrepreneurship Network of UNCTAD (4 May 2016).
WSIS Prize 2016 Champion in ICT Applications - e-Business Category (4 May 2016).
Winners of Al Roya Economic Award 2016 for Best Government to Business e-Service.
Winners of GCC Award 2015 for Best Government to Business e-Service.
Winners of Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in e-Government 2011 in the e-Economy Category.
GCC Award for Best Joint Government Service 2013.
Winners of Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in e-Government in the service for Government Officials Category 2011.
Winners of GCC Award Winner 2012.
Winners of Best Governmental Service in Business Sector at the GCC Awards 2015.
WSIS Award 2012.
Winners of Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in e-Government 2016 in the Best Service Supporting doing Business.
Winners of Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award in Kuwait – 21 November 2016.