In the second quarter of this year, over 510,000 new accounts have been added to the National Authentication System (Tawtheeq).
The Tawtheeq provides access to government’s e-services with unified login data. According to figures released by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC), number of new added accounts to the Tawtheeq during Q2 of 2021 are 518,105. As many as 128, 572 accounts were added in April 2021 while 187,751 accounts in May and 201,782 accounts in June were added.
The numbers have increased by 91,568 from the first quarter of 2021. A total of 125,016 accounts were added to Tawtheeq in January 2021 while 122,881 and 178,640 accounts were added in February and March respectively.
The Ministry on its Twitter handle said that since its launch, 17 entities of the country have deployed Tawtheeq.
In 2019, the MoTC had launched ‘Tawtheeq’, which acts as a national identity provider for all the government online services. It provides a secure authentication, digital signing, and Single-Sign-On (SSO) services and is a key component in e-services development and security. It delivers improved security, usability, and efficiency for end-users of government e-services.
Key features of Tawtheeq include servicing individuals and businesses, simplified government entities’ connection to service, protecting digital identity from theft and hacking, deploying best info security standards, and fast access to services.
Registration on Tawtheeq also supports services like registering for COVID-19 vaccination and to aces the Primary Health Care Corporation’s app Naraakom. To mention, more than 450,000 government e-correspondences were completed in second half of the year, as a major achievement for the Qatar Digital Government initiative.
The e-Payment Gateway platform allows users among individuals and companies to pay the fees of online services provided by various government departments in the State.
Also more than 37 million SMS (short message service) messages were sent by government entities via ‘SMS Gateway’ during the second quarter of 2021. The service allows government entities to send notifications to their customers and users through SMS, which provides rich service experience for the customers and increases the efficiency of e-services.
