DOHA: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) yesterday launched more than 18 new electronic services within its own departments as part of its strategy to be a ‘Ministry Without Papers’.
This was disclosed at a press conference held at the Information Systems Department of the ministry, addressed by Brigadier Abdurrahman Al Malki, Assistant Director of Information Systems Department, Brigadier Abdul Rahman Majid Al Sulaiti, Director from the ministry’s Strategic Planning Department, and Capt Mubarak Salim Al Bouainain, Asst Director of Public Relations Department.
Several other senior officials of the ministry also attended the press briefing.
Brigadier Al Malki said the ministry adopted the strategy to become a ‘Ministry without Papers’ to achieve financial and technical development in the Ministry.
The project was implemented by the ministry’s Information Systems Department in collaboration with the authorities concerned within the ministry.
The officials told reporters that the project will contribute to saving time as well as logistical requirements for service requests.
They said that most service requests made by various MoI departments to one another will be processed electronically without the use of paper. The intra-ministry e-service project will be completed next year.
“The ministry has, in the past three years, converted some 266 of its internal services into electronic mode, and this year (2015) we have had further progress in this regard,” officials said.
Brig. Abdul Rahman Al Maliki said almost 16,934 internal e-applications were processed this year. These applications are connected with various sectors such as maintenance and service request, request for telephone, systems and other devices.
They are processed through four departments of the ministry — Information Systems, Warehousing and Supply Department, Telecommunications Department and Human Resources Department.
The ministry is working on transferring all documentation and paper work into digital format. “We have digitalised more than 80 million documents until now”. Some 88 percent of the project has been implemented and by next year it will be completed.
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