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Spanning an area of 5,961 km , Saudi A portal that sets the trend
capital Riyadh is booming with a towards an E-Government
current population of 6.5 million
and expected to be 8.3 million. The To achieve its most ambitious plan,
Public Services’ Sector in Riyadh is K&A helped ADA establish a database
transforming to accommodate the at the city level, which includes
urban growth and fulfill the vision 2030 spatial and descriptive data for
objective to enhance the livability public services-in terms of locations,
of the city of Riyadh. It also aims to distances, areas, number of floors,
enhance the National Transformation ownership-and any other information
Program 2020 Key Performance that helps the relevant authorities
Indicators (KPI) for the purpose of develop their future plans and set
achieving a sustainable and balanced priorities. In addition, K&A built a Land
urban development and to improve the Bank database and integrated it into
quality of life for its citizens. the portal in an attempt to facilitate
information sharing among relevant
Having conducted, eight years ago, authorities about available lands -both
a study on the Provision of Public private and public- that are owned by
Services in Riyadh for the Arriyadh the services providers (Ministries) and
Development Authority (ADA), the Amanat of Riyadh.
Khatib & Alami (K&A) is updating the
study following a “Smart” approach K&A assisted ADA in updating the
in services provision planning by planning standards as the main
developing an interactive model using reference for lands planning and
advanced GIS tools and techniques. distribution of services locations in
An electronic portal was designed and Riyadh city and recommended to
activated to connect relevant public establish the Land Registry Center for
authorities (services providers) in public services using the developed
one platform and to allow continuous Land Bank Layer. The main objective
update of current and future public of the Land Registry Center is to
services. consolidate public services land plots
(vacant and built) and their ownership
Delivering ADA’s aim to improve status in an inventory which will
the Level of Services (LOS) facilitate land swapping among public
provision authorities.

ADA aims, through the “Second
Implementation Plan for the
Coordination and Provision of
Public Services in Riyadh-
2017”, to improve the
level of services in Riyadh,
fill the existing gap and
identify the future
needs, capitalizing
on the provision
of public
services as one
of the most
important urban
indicators that
reflect on the quality
of life of city residents.
In the Second Implementation
Plan, K&A designed for ADA, a joint
portal for public service providers in
Riyadh to continuously update the
data, periodically monitor and follow-
up on services implementation, and
measure their consistency with the
planning standards.
The portal will enable ADA measure the
efficiency of public services distribution
and allocate the services on three
levels: neighborhood, municipality, and
the city. It will also provide a road map
for services implementation following a
priority plan on a five-year basis (2020,
2025, 2030).

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