HE The Minister Meets with US Ambassador to QatarDoha – QatarHE Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti met here Sunday with the US Ambassador to Qatar Dana Shell Smith.The meeting discussed the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries in the field of transportation and communications and means of further enhancing them.
Hamad Port has received the “2016 Sustainability Award” from the Gulf Organization for Research & Development (GORD), “Light Industry Ports” category, for its commitment to adopting sustainability best practices.GORD’s “Sustainability Awards” are given to organizations and companies inside and outside of Qatar for their leadership and compliance with sustainability best practices by adopting the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS) criteria.GSAS is a green building certification system developed for the State of Qatar. The primary objective of GSAS is to create a sustainable built environment that minimizes ecological impact while addressing the specific regional needs and environment of Qatar.Hamad Port has received the award on the sidelines of “The Carbon & Climate Change and Sustainability Environment Conference” Summit that GORD holds in cooperation with the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy and the Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment Company. The event is attended by many experts and specialists from the IEA, the UN, the WB and the EU, in addition to several stakeholders and specialists from the public and private sectors in Qatar. GORD is a Qatari governmental organization that leads the way to changing buildings’ design, construction and operations through green practices in the field of energy and efficient construction.
Conference on Information Security in Financial Institutions Opens TodayThe third annual conference on ‘Information Security in Financial Institutions’ host by Qatar Central Bank (QCB) opened today. The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H.E. Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani inaugurated the event, which will shed light on information security, the challenges and infrastructure improvements. Taking place at the Sheraton Doha Hotel, the conference connects high-level executives in the banking and financial sector with experts in the information security field, who will be sharing their expertise on how to protect financial institutions against security risks.
Doha – Qatar-Over 90 Arabic and English language coordinators from 45 independent schools attended the third set of workshops conducted last week by the educational cyber safety program “Haseen”.Attendees at the workshops were introduced to and trained in the cyber safety topics that Haseen covers along with best practices, helping them to better understand the program, its vision, mission and end goals, as well as how to use the Haseen search engine.The workshops also offered a platform for teachers to explore the content of the program, such as the learning resources and activities, and obtain hands-on experience on how to apply and fully utilize the system features.The attendees were also trained in how to guide school administrations on the process of registering new teachers onto the program portal; a multi-feature, interactive platform with icons including rate, comment, share and bookmark that teachers will be using inside classrooms to raise their students’ cyber safety awareness. Teachers who already attended these sessions will - in turn- teach their colleagues.Developed jointly by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the program teaches schoolchildren how to think critically and behave online by raising their awareness and developing an informed and healthy cyber safety culture across Qatari schools.Haseen has 348 learning activities and 148 learning resources, providing comprehensive, customized, and interactive information that sharpens schoolchildren’s critical thinking, problem solving, and teamwork skills.Haseen’s learning activities have been incorporated into both Arabic and English curricula, and will be used to enhance learning across a range of other subjects delivered to students.
HE the Minister Meets with Ambassador of SwedenHE Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti met here with Ewa Polano, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Qatar.The meeting discussed the bilateral relations between the two friendly countries in the fields of transportation and communications, and means of further enhancing them.
Ministry of Transport and Communications leads Qatar’s drive to improving safety across the transportation network Transportation experts arrived in Doha this week for a high-level meeting to discuss the state of safety across the transport network in the region at the Qatar Transport Safety Forum, held under the patronage of H.E. Mr. Jassim Saif Ahmed Al-Sulaiti, Minister of Transport and Communications, and in attendance of H.E. Mr. Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Rumehi, Minister of Municipality and Environment.The event brought together a number of experts from the region as well as the international community to share their experiences and transfer knowledge about best practice across a number of modes of transport. The conference opened with a video that showed the projects of the ministry, followed by a speech by Mr. Rashid Taleb Al Nabet, Director of the Ministry’s Road Transport Planning Department.The speech focused on the importance the Ministry is putting on safety as Qatar prepares itself for the delivery of new modes of transport.The gathering was also addressed by Brigadier Mohamed Al Malki, General Secretary, National Traffic Safety Committee, Ministry of Interior, who gave an in-depth assessment of Qatar’s vision for improving safety on the roads in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.H.E. Minister Al-Sulaiti then inaugurated the exhibition and led the attendees on a tour where safety equipment and technology suppliers from all over the world demonstrated cutting-edge systems that will be implemented in Qatar as part of their far-reaching strategy to make the country’s transport network one of the safest in the region.After the break, the forum hosted a number of international speakers including Susanna Zammataro the Executive Director of the International Roads Federation Programme Centre Geneva, and Jonas Hermanson, Managing Director of Sweroad, who shared how Sweden has managed to become the country with the safest roads on the planet. The rest of the day saw a number of technical theatres from local and international solution providers as well as a mix of workshops, panel discussions and presentations from organisations such as Abu Dhabi Police, Ashghal, Saudi Aramco, ASTAD Project Management and Qatar Rail. Paul Stanley Williams from Qatar Rail safety department gave an insight into their initiatives in improving work zone safety which has culminated in them receiving the Gold RoSPA award for the QR Light Rail Project.The first day came to a close in the evening but not before the Transport Safety Awards ceremony where individuals and companies were awarded for their endeavors in improving safety in the region. Organizations such as Toyota, Continental Tires, Tekfen, Hamad Medical Corporation and Saudi Aramco were bestowed honours for their efforts and the highlight of the evening was H.E. Mr. Jassim Saif Ahmed Al-Sulaiti accepting an award for leadership in transport safety in light of the efforts that have been made in Qatar since the foundation of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. Today’s forum is set to continue with more high-level discussions and will focus on what Qatar is doing now with regards improving the quality of the drivers on their public transport network as well as looking at the future in the Middle East with the implementation of intelligent transport systems and the buzzword in the transport industry at the moment, autonomous vehicles. ‘We would really like to thank the Ministry of Transport and Communications for their constant support in the lead up to this event and I would personally like to thank H.E. Mr. Jassim Saif Ahmed Al-Sulaiti for his personal attention to this conference,’ stated Mohaned El-Mahgoub, Conference Director from IQPC Middle East. ‘Safety is something that needs to be driven from the top and with his vision and direction, I only see huge improvements in Qatar.’