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​​​​Environmental Friendliness

The Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is committed to provide natural resources as environmentally friendly through the presence of smart buildings, electricity, systems for extinguishing devices and archiving, electronic transactions, electronic updates (email text) with an emphasis on a world without ​paper. The Ministry pays great attention to the concept of environmental friendliness that it obtained the Silver Certificate and approved its building as the first smart government building in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the American Smart Buildings Institute (an independent, non-profit entity).

The concept of environmental friendliness includes many practices, technologies and concepts that make protecting the environment part of an individual's personality and daily behavior. Such as, searching for renewable and alternative energy sources then using them, limiting the consumption of non-renewable vital resources and reducing gas emissions and global warming. The Ministry has drawn up laws and taken a number of measures and initiatives that establish the concept of environmental friendliness.

The Ministry Smart Building​

The Ministry's Smart Building

The Ministry's smart building contains many technologies that help protecting the environment. Such as, making use of alternative energy sources, central electronic control of energy consumption, lighting and air conditioning, ideally during official working hours, and the almost complete suspension of their consumption outside working hours. These practices helped achieving the Silver Certificate and approved to make it smart building from the American Institute of Smart Buildings.

Encouraging the Concept of Smart Buildings 

Encouraging the Concept of Smart Buildings

The Ministry of Education organizes many workshops on smart buildings and their benefits, and urges universities and educational institutions to gradually transform into smart university cities according to the highest standards.
Stop Paper Transactions 

Stop Paper Transactions

The Ministry has relied on the complete electronic system for transactions. It is working on linking this system with the comprehensive government system in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Document Management System 

Document Management System

The Ministry has implemented the electronic document management system, which contains - so far - more than thirty million (30,000,000) archived documents to reduce the use of paper in the process of archiving and recycling the user from it.
Electronic Systems and Devices 

Electronic Systems and Devices

The Ministry relies in its contracts and tenders on the use of modern office equipment and display screens that save energy and bear a certificate of environmental friendliness, as well as a strict central system for office computers.
Transformation to Electronic Services 

Transformation to Electronic Services

The Ministry has presented pioneering initiatives in the field of environmental friendliness - and e-government at the same time - the most important of which are the transformation of electronic transactions and services, which perfectly achieve "environmental friendliness", including:
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  • There is no need to come to the Ministry's headquarters to request services, savings on fuel and transportation infrastructure.
  • There is no need for offices and buildings to receive auditors, saving on natural resource consumption.
  • Reliance on electronic transactions to accomplish tasks and no need to consume paper to request services.
  • Relying on text messages and e-mail to follow up requests and communicate of all kinds to save time and effort expended in following up transactions in the ministry.
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