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Over 600 IT employees from more than 40 government entities have been trained in digital government and relevant technical skills at The Qatar Digital Government Centre for Excellence, as part of the Ministry of Transport and Communications’ ongoing efforts to further implement the Qatar Digital Government 2020 Strategy.
Launched last May, the initiative aims to educate and train all government IT employees over the course of the next three years in collaboration with public and private partners, including the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs, Community College of Qatar, Microsoft, Cisco, and others.
“We are delighted to have completed this phase of the initiative, mainly for qualifying such a number of local employees with hands-on experience to guarantee the sustainability of Qatar Digital Government projects,” said Reem al-Mansoori, the Ministry’s assistant undersecretary of Digital Society Development.
“The Centre aims to train local personnel and qualify them for government entities in order to plug the skills gap in industry,” she explained while pointing out that many of government entities have been contacted and their IT training requirements carefully identified.
“That was tremendously helpful in designing the most appropriate tracks and training courses their staff actually need, taking into consideration the types of work they perform as well as their areas of technical specialisation.”
The government of Qatar pays great attention to human capital development, fully understanding their key role in development and performance improvement nationwide.
The initiative taskforce is attracting more think tanks in the field of technology and training in order to help enrich the content in order to be able to meet the needs of government entities for now and well into the future.
The Qatar Digital Government Steering Committee has embraced various unique mechanisms and tools to assist in realising the objectives of the Qatar Digital Government 2020 Strategy, including the Qatar Digital Government Centre for Excellence, which, in addition to its main mission, will become a platform for innovation in digital government services.
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