Global Initiative ‘Oman’ launched to develop a Digital Zakat Platform

A new global initiative named 'Oman' has been launched in collaboration between Oman's Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs (MOERA) and the Oman Technology Fund (OTF) to build a digital Zakat platform for Muslims across the world. According to media reports, the initiative will launch a competition amongst Omani and Muslim youth across the globe to develop a digital Zakat platform, with the winning project receiving an investment of USD 250,000.

The aforesaid collaboration is expected to further widen the benefit from the Omani experience of running an online Zakat platform locally over the past five years, which has been a massive success by way of modernising the Zakat offering, whilst streamlining the Zakat pr...