03/01/2026
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03/01/2026
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 3: Dr. Sayed Issa, the acting Assistant Undersecretary for Financial and Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Social Affairs, says the ministry has completed the installation of 191 surveillance cameras across supply centers and central markets in all cooperative societies. He explained in a press release that the system is designed to provide continuous administrative and security monitoring, with cameras connected to control rooms at the Ministry of Social Affairs in Abdullah Al-Salem, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in Saddiq, and the Ministry of Interior’s Information Systems Center.
The initiative significantly enhances governance and oversight of cooperative societies and enables direct access to and monitoring of each cooperative society’s financial and administrative data, as well as strategic inventory levels, allowing for more accurate tracking of each cooperative society’s performance. The installation of the new system was completed in a record time of three months, finishing three months ahead of schedule, despite initial administrative and technical resistance from cooperative societies. The primary objective of the system is to strengthen governance of cooperative society operations.
In the next stage, it will be linked with several government entities, including the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Kuwait Municipality, the Public Authority for Food and Nutrition, and the Kuwait Fire Force. The ministry’s strategic vision is to restore cooperative work to its leading role by building an integrated system and promoting effective cooperative leadership. This effort aligns with the ministry’s strategic plan to correct and improve the cooperative sector. Following the final evaluation of the first phase, the second phase will begin, which will include conducting a comprehensive electronic inventory in all cooperative societies.
By Fares Ghaleb Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff
