The Arab training meeting on information control technology concludes its work in Amman

Amman (INA) - Participants in the Arab training meeting on information control technology, which was hosted by the Jordanian capital, Amman, and concluded its work today, Thursday, recommended issuing audit guides in the field of information technology control, and allocating sections that are responsible for carrying out control tasks on information technologies in all sectors. The oversight bodies of the members of the Arab Organization. The participants in the meeting, which was held in the Jordanian Audit Bureau, in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions, recommended that they work to intensify theoretical and applied courses and meetings in the field of information technology control according to the latest publications, in a way that serves the control systems of the members of the Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions. and Accounting (ARBOSAI). Representatives of financial control and accounting agencies from Tunisia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and the Sultanate of Oman participated in the meeting, in addition to participants from Jordan. In the closing statement of the meeting, the participants recommended working to unify the views and mechanisms related to the field of information technology control by reaching an approved methodology that is continuously updated according to the latest publications. They also recommended working on allocating a corner in the oversight magazine issued by the Arab Organization for Information Control as a first stage leading to the issuance of a specialized periodical magazine, concerned with the latest publications, to provide the organs of member states with it. The participants in the meeting, in which experts and technicians specialized in the field of information technology lectured, discussed topics about the concept and importance of controlling information technology, the concept of governance of information systems, methods and stages of control systems over information systems, monitoring and evaluation of information systems, in addition to presenting practical cases for the participants on their experiences and those of their institutions. In conclusion, the head of the Audit Bureau, Mustafa Al-Barari, said that the meeting was held to serve the oversight bodies, preserve and maintain public money, and keep abreast of information technology developments in the field of information systems techniques and programs. He pointed out that the meeting contributes to the improvement and development of financial control methods and methodologies from the theoretical and practical sides, in accordance with the work plan of the General Secretariat of the Arab Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions in the field of training and scientific research for the year 2014. In turn, the representative of the General Secretariat of the Arab Organization, Reda Al-Majri, thanked Jordan for hosting this training meeting, and said that this Arab meeting translates the depth of love and brotherhood between the Arab brothers because of the common denominators that bring us together. Arabic. (End) Muhammad Al-Omari