The Speech of H.E the Minister of Finance
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
We welcome you at the web site of Ministry of Finance
in Qatar, where you will find all the information you
need concerning the Ministry. The launch of this web
site comes along with the initiative of "eGovernment"
which aims to provide governmental services for clients
through the Internet. We believe that this will help the
Qatari general management to pass the bureaucratic
aspect and concentrate on clients.
The goal of developing the public services in such
manner is not limited to convey with fundamental
developments occurred in the last two centuries,
especially in information and communication
technologies, and renewal of the concept of general
management theory, or even contributing in establishing
the state of organizations and supremacy of law which
the country aims to achieve in order to reach the
lasting development, but it is much wider to include all
of what have been mentioned plus other future plans
determined by H.H Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thaini,
the Emir of Qatar, to embody a vision "of a ruling
pattern in the 21st century in which the relationship
between the government, citizens, commercial community,
non-profit sector is developed in parallel with
traditions and customs."
The web site provides comprehensive information about
the ministry and its financial policy, legislation,
international agreements, roles of its departments and
their relation with local and international body.
Moreover the web site displays information about the
managers of the ministry and its latest news. It also
offers a numerous of eServices such as career openings
and live dialogues which may relief you from the
headache of routine visits to the ministry premises.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that
the information and data of the eGovernment project
which is assumed to be finished in 2004 will not be
static. On the contrary, the data will be updated and we
will make sure that it will convey with the structural
changes of any of the ministry activities either if it
is related to its legislation, financial policy, or even
any procedure requested from the clients. More important
we assure our clients that this strategy will be
executed based on aspects of transparency and
legitimacy.
The transparency was always one of the features of
Qatari government work, so it is not any strange that
the Transparency International has classified State of
Qatar in the 32 class from 133 countries in 2003
concerning transparency. Also, eGovernment project of
Qatar has awarded Global Top Award for this year.
The cooperation and support of citizens to the
government and its provided eServices will speed up the
process of transferring State of Qatar from the phase of
"information society" to "knowledge society".
Finally, I wish you a pleasant useful visit to the
web sit of the Ministry of Finance and thank you.
Youssif Hussain Kamal
Minster of Finance
