Ministry Holds Workshop on Smart Qatar Platform Development
Doha-QatarThe Ministry of Transport and Communications today organized a workshop on building the TASMU Smart Qatar Central Platform, with a number of local and global technology companies.The event introduced TASMU’s strategic partners to the architecture of the TASMU Smart Qatar Central Platform through discussions that covered best practices to set up the platform.The workshop featured a presentation about TASMU Smart Qatar Program’s vision and strategic objectives and ongoing efforts to harness the power of technology and innovation and its focus on harnessing the power of technology and innovation to drive sustainable economic diversification, improve the quality of life and enhance the delivery of public services across priority sectors.TASMU experts also showcased the platform architecture that was developed by TASMU team, Q-CERT and information technology sector at the MOTC. It covers all platform-related elements, including information security, data collection and classification, IoT, and others.“The advancement in digital technologies has opened up new opportunities to transform the way cities, countries and ultimately the way we live. Over the last decade, Qatar has made significant progress towards becoming a leader in the use of information technology to transform the key economic sectors that play a key role in driving Qatar’s economic diversification and growth strategy and that deliver impact to the daily life of citizens. Qatar is adapting and integrating the use of cutting-edge technologies from around the world that will help deliver exceptional outcomes for its citizens along with a sustainable economic development plan focused on innovation,” said MOTC’s Assistant Undersecretary for Digital Society Development Affairs HE Ms. Reem Al-Mansoori, in opening remarks.“It is of absolute interest for us to facilitate the ecosystem in order to achieve TASMU’s ambition of delivering the 100 plus services in the catalogue. Such achievement will be delivered by developing the national central platform, which would enable the nation wide data collection and functional services,” she added.“It is clear that the future looks bright for Qatar and continuous growth will be seen after new technologies are implemented and mandated across all sectors. The road to becoming a smart nation may have obstacles, but with TASMU and the government’s willingness to innovate as well at the private sector’s willingness to cooperate, there is an opportunity for Qatar to reimagine its future and ensure a sustainable economy for generations to come.”The platform will be providing the technology services that TASMU’s priority sectors need to avoid duplication and to empower and accelerate establishing each sector’s platform.This approach would help strike a balance between ownership and responsibility, as well as fulfilling sectoral needs and benefiting from all existing efforts in this respect. It would also help achieve inter-sector cooperation.The presentation was followed by interactive discussions and perspective exchange between attending companies where ideas were explored and requirements clarified. This comes ahead of launching the RFP for platform development, which signals the beginning of a multiyear partnership.
