Ministry of Interior launches open data website

Doha, March 02 (QNA) -The Ministry of Interior has become the first government department in Qatar to launch the open data website for the public.This 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 of Public Security Major General Saad bin Jassim al Khulaifi, and a number of directors of the departments of the Ministry of Interior.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 within the context of 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 the 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 of the Interior.The Open Data Policy provides efficient and transparent public services and helps build a knowledge-based society by creating an open and transparent culture in which knowledge bases are accessible.This 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 of Interior, which helps to convert those data and information to tools and applications that help and strengthen partnership with the government to find innovative solutions.The Ministry of the Interior 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 these data for the public interest.