Qatar's government

Qatar had the highest economic growth in the world in 2009.

The Gulf state's economy will expand with a real gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 9.6 percent, said QNB Capital.

Qarar is one of the richest countries in the world . Qatar discovered huge reserves of oil and gas in the 1940s,that completely transformed its economy.

Qatar offers most of its services to its citizens for free and has no income tax. The amount of money they get from selling oil is more than enough for their small yet thriving economy.

The Government Network initiative, being implemented by ictQATAR's i-Gov program, will allow for Qatar's government agencies to be directly linked together over a secure communications platform, allowing for improved data sharing and enhanced security for e-services.

Watch the Video: Ronald Brown, Government Network Section Manager Highlights the Service Objectives of the Network

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The amount of information being shared and sent electronically between government agencies, businesses and citizens is rapidly growing each day. Much of this information is private or confidential. To address the need for a safe and reliable network, the Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR) is creating a secure Government Network. The Government Network initiative, being implemented by ictQATAR’s i-Gov program, will allow for Qatar’s government agencies to be directly linked together over a secure communications platform, allowing for improved data sharing and enhanced security for e-services.

Qatar's people, institutions, and government have made steady progress in adopting ICT into daily life, according to Qatar's ICT Landscape 2009, the first country-wide, survey-based ICT study released on May 17th, 2009.

This first report provides a good understanding of where Qatar stands today compared to developing and developed countries in terms of ICT adoption by all sectors of the society, including residents, government, and the business community. It also looks at the education, health, and tourism sectors, as well as the ICT job market.

Qatar has advanced three places in the Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009 - to 29th. The annual Report, released by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD on March 26th, is the world's most comprehensive international assessment of the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on nations' development and international competitiveness.

This year the Report surveys 134 developed and developing economies that account for more than 98% of world GDP. Last year's report included 127 countries.

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Qatar’s online gateway to government information and services, Hukoomi, is on display at the 28th Information Technology, Communications and Business Solutions Exhibition (Infoconnect & Infobiz), taking place in Kuwait, February 1-7, 2009. The Exhibition is organized under the auspicies of HE Mr. Nabil Khalaf bin Salamah, The Mininster of Electricity and Water and Communications of the State of Kuwait. HE the Minister visited Hukoomi stand at the exibition and listened to a presentation by ictQATAR team highlighting the main features of the exciting portal and taking the many high-profile visitors through the various services on the portal.

DUBAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Qatar's government ordered two domestic real estate companies to merge on Monday, the latest in a series of mergers and acquisitions in the Gulf Arab region where firms are struggling to cope with the global turmoil.

Barwa Real Estate BRES.QA, an affiliate of state-owned Qatari Diar, and Qatar Real Estate Investment Co QREC.QA, in which the government owns a minority stake, said they were still in the early stages of examing terms and conditions of the merger.

Consolidation in the oil-exporting region has been on the rise since late last year as the financial crisis and an oil price slump ended an economic boom, forcing firms involved in everything from property to investment to search for ways to weather the downturn.

The Qatari real estate merger would be the fourth in the world's biggest exporter of liquefied natural gas in three months, and follows a planned merger between two private investment companies in Kuwait on Sunday.

"The purpose will be to create a much bigger entity which can take the pressure due to the financial crisis," said Samer al-Jaouni, general manager of Middle East Financial Brokerage Co in Dubai. "Qatar is trying to take action before things get worse."

Al-Jaouni said that real estate prices in some areas under development in Qatar had fallen by 30 percent to 40 percent from their peak.