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Message of
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Mr. Abdur Rauf Chaudhry
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Chairman, Steering Committee, OIC Ombudsman Association (OICOA)
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It gives me immense pleasure to launch the official Website of the OIC Ombudsman
Association (OICOA). This is an era of instant communications.
People have the option
to talk and see each other in real time overcoming the constraints of much frequent
physical meetings. Technology has today made it possible for people to communicate
with each other globally, in real time using multiple modes of text, images, audio
and video.
This multi-dimensional communication capability is being exploited by
all and sundry today irrespective of the regional and cultural divide and has revolutionized
administrative and bureaucratic system. The OICOA Website is launched with high
hopes and a conviction that it will provide a golden opportunity to put in place
an electronic broadway to bring the Ombudsmen of Muslim States in particular and
world over Ombudsman community in general closer than ever before to share their
knowledge, experience, capabilities, resources and ideas for strengthening the cause
of Ombudsmanship for the common good of our peoples and reduce their sufferings.
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Further, I am glad to share that in accordance with the decisions reached through
“Islamabad Declaration” adopted in the first Conference on Networking of Ombudsmen
in OIC Member States, held at Islamabad on 28-29 April 2014, actions towards implementation
of the decisions of the Conference have been initiated and accordingly a formal
OICOA Secretariat has been established, annexed to the FTO premises in Islamabad.
For ensuring its efficient functioning Secretary OICOA (Mr. Abdul Khaliq) along
with nucleolus staff for the OICOA Secretariat has been appointed. The OICOA Secretariat
is currently developing a Profile Directory of the Members which will be posted
on the Website to promote interaction and know each other well. Further, in order
to promote cause of Ombudsmanship in brotherly Muslim States, OIC Secretariat is
planning to contact the respective Governments through their embassies in Islamabad
of the OIC Member States who do not have Ombudsman Institution so far, inviting
them to consider establishing this august and noble institution having strong linkage
with the Islamic era which originally ascribed to the second Caliph Omar’s (RA)
Institution of the Qadi-al-Qadat, then the Diwan-al-Mazalim.
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I believe the Website is user friendly and will provide the legal, procedural framework,
organizational and administrative set-up of OIC Ombudsman Association as well as
the members of the Association. The OICOA Secretariat intends to develop this website
into a dynamic medium for interaction between Ombudsmen internationally. A dedicated
e-mail address will also be made available to each member of the Association for
mutual communication on instant basis.
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Suggestions to improve it are welcome.
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