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Case M18: National Statistics & Planning Authority – A Dashboard Isn’t an Enterprise Architecture 💲

Updated: Aug 2, 2025

Indicators Were Measured. But Government Planning Was Never Designed.


Part of the “One Government, One Anatomy” Review

This case is one of 19 ministries and authorities analyzed in ICMG’s government-wide diagnostic across the Middle East.


From Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT), to the UAE’s Federal Competitiveness & Statistics Centre (FCSC), Qatar’s Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA), Oman’s National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), and Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) — data modernization has made significant strides.


But one pattern repeated across all:

Dashboards improved. But government structure didn’t.

Claimed EA Success

Most authorities claimed success based on:

  • Unified statistical data portals and open data repositories

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