QNA
Doha
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has inaugurated the open data website, the first government department in Qatar to launch this service and provide a specialised data website for the public.
The launch of the website is in line with the ‘Open Data Policy’ of the Ministry of Communications (2014) as well as the Government’s Digital 2020 Strategy for Transparency, Efficiency and Community Participation.
During the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by Director-General of Public Security HE Major-General Saad bin Jassim al Khulaifi and a number of directors of the Ministry of Interior departments, Captain Ali Ahmed Al Bin Ali, head of Electronic Services and Internet Department of the General Directorate of Information Systems, gave a presentation about the website and the information it provides to the public, as well as future development and improvement on the open data policy.
The policy aims to make information and data accessible to everyone, to reuse and distribute them without restrictions and with ease.
According to this policy, the Ministry of Interior’s website includes approved data packages such as traffic data, road accidents and other data of public interest and falls under the purview of the ministry.
The Open Data Policy seeks to achieve the National Development Goals and the Qatar National Vision 2030 of providing efficient and transparent public services and building a knowledge-based society by creating an open and transparent culture in which knowledge bases are accessible.
The policy also seeks to contribute to raising the assessment of Qatar in any global appraisal in which the ‘transparency of the government’ component of the evaluation as well as enhance the confidence and participation of citizens by facilitating access to the data of the ministry, which helps to convert the data and information to tools and applications that help and strengthen partnership with the government to find innovative solutions.
The ministry aims to enable the data to keep abreast of the significant development in the field of open data at the global level as well as in the Gulf region and to reuse the data for the public interest.
Doha
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) has inaugurated the open data website, the first government department in Qatar to launch this service and provide a specialised data website for the public.
The launch of the website is in line with the ‘Open Data Policy’ of the Ministry of Communications (2014) as well as the Government’s Digital 2020 Strategy for Transparency, Efficiency and Community Participation.
During the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by Director-General of Public Security HE Major-General Saad bin Jassim al Khulaifi and a number of directors of the Ministry of Interior departments, Captain Ali Ahmed Al Bin Ali, head of Electronic Services and Internet Department of the General Directorate of Information Systems, gave a presentation about the website and the information it provides to the public, as well as future development and improvement on the open data policy.
The policy aims to make information and data accessible to everyone, to reuse and distribute them without restrictions and with ease.
According to this policy, the Ministry of Interior’s website includes approved data packages such as traffic data, road accidents and other data of public interest and falls under the purview of the ministry.
The Open Data Policy seeks to achieve the National Development Goals and the Qatar National Vision 2030 of providing efficient and transparent public services and building a knowledge-based society by creating an open and transparent culture in which knowledge bases are accessible.
The policy also seeks to contribute to raising the assessment of Qatar in any global appraisal in which the ‘transparency of the government’ component of the evaluation as well as enhance the confidence and participation of citizens by facilitating access to the data of the ministry, which helps to convert the data and information to tools and applications that help and strengthen partnership with the government to find innovative solutions.
The ministry aims to enable the data to keep abreast of the significant development in the field of open data at the global level as well as in the Gulf region and to reuse the data for the public interest.