Muscat Municipality has won an international award for using geographic information systems (GIS) in an effective manner in its Etamid platform. The Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award ceremony took place during a plenary session of the Esri User Conference in San Diego, California, USA on July 10. Etamid is a pioneering project involving numerous government and private institutions in Oman; a digital solution for issuing Non-Objection Certificates (NOC) required for all excavation services linked to various types of projects.
