Department of Information Technology
Director of Information Technology
Biography
H.E. Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Hajri
The Department of Information Technology is responsible for:
- Providing and developing political, economic, cultural, technical and other data and information, to offer an integrated information base for the Ministry's administrative units and its missions abroad.
- Studying, designing, implementing and maintaining automated information systems that help develop the Ministry's work, and submitting technical proposals on them.
- Automated processing of the Ministry's data and information, supervising its entry and retrieval, and issuing the necessary information and reports.
- Providing and maintaining the hardware, software and electronic networks required for the Ministry's automated work systems, in coordination with the relevant administrative units.
- Securing systems, software, networks and information-systems infrastructure against cyber incidents, and establishing the systems and procedures needed to maintain the confidentiality of information systems.
- Preparing recovery plans for cyber incidents, to reduce their occurrence or escalation, in line with information security policies and guidelines and in coordination with the competent authority.
- Linking the electronic systems used at the Ministry with its missions abroad.
- Providing technical support to network users at the Ministry and its missions abroad, and training them on the use of systems, software, computers and their accessories.
- Identifying requirements for automated systems and the specifications of the necessary hardware and equipment.
- Programming, storing, retrieving and updating the information systems and data needed for the Ministry's activities.
- Designing, operating and managing databases and information of all types.
- Proposing training programmes in the field of information technology.
- Creating, monitoring and updating the Ministry's website on the internet.