The Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism Mr. Zayed R. Alzayani inaugurated the 2nd edition of eCommerce and Internet Security Forum for teachers
under title of “eCommerce…Bahraini Platform...For Global Market” in cooperation with the Bahrain Regional Centre for Information and Communication Technology (RCICT) and with the support of Bin Hindi Informatics and iMachines.

During the opening ceremony, the minister delivered a speech pointing out the importance cooperation with government and private bodies in spreading awareness on ecommerce and identifying the best secure solutions available on the internet.
He confirmed that the Kingdom of Bahrain has achieved an advanced position in information and communication technology field, which ranked the first in the Middle East and North Africa in terms of the spread of Information and communication technology at the level of individual use, according to the World Information Technology Report of the World Economic Forum 2016. The e-commerce sector in the GCC is expected to grow to US$ 20 billion by 2020, according to the latest market estimates issued by AT Kearney Management Consulting.

The forum includes two workshops, the first training workshop led by the Director of Technology Solutions at Microsoft Gulf and Oman Mr. Gamal Magdy, under the theme of "Technology Solutions in the field of e-commerce and Internet security"

The second training workshop is about “"Secure shopping techniques and the best means of protection on Android devices" and presented by Head of Enterprise, Mobile Business at Samsung Gulf Electronics.  Mr. Mohammed Zuhair Gharaibeh.