Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2021 Nominee

Foreign Trade Portal


Description

The foreign trade system is an open government information system, promoting the use of business intelligence to facilitate access to foreign trade data in support for the knowledge community. The portal offers important trade information including exported and imported commodities and volumes and countries of trade in a friendly way.

Via the cleaning and consolidation of timely trade data, the portal attempts to support business planning in an evidence based fashion where data is sharable as part of the government attempt to empower business society with sustainability and growth tools contributing eventually to the grown of the Qatari economy. Through the support for knowledge-based economy, the government thrives for the support of entrepreneurs especially youth, women and disabled people along with prosperity to population and reduction of poverty.
The use of the portal via external business communities also promotes open trade and international and regional trade cooperation towards the global economic growth and thus poverty reduction.

Project website

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/ft/pages/default.aspx


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-government
  • AL C11. International and regional cooperation 2021
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 1: No poverty
  • Goal 8: Decent work and economic growth
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Coverage
  • International

Status

Completed

Start date

01 March 2019

End date

01 October 2019


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • People with disabilities
  • The unemployed
  • The poor
  • Migrants
  • Business owners, entrepreneurs, Investors and researchers

Replicability

This portal is a one-stop shop for all foreign trading information that Qatar is part of, and the main source of information for all the trading community, investors, and business owners from all around the world, which makes it essential to be available in all countries.


Sustainability

Due to the virtual and informative natures of this project, it proves to be sustainable. Maintaining an information portal that brings high economic value is easier to sustain when done virtually, specially when done by the entity that holds the nation's data and statistics. Moreover, such info is essential for the trading community and bring a lot of positive economic benefits to its users.


WSIS values promotion

The Foreign trade portal promotes government openness to support business initiatives and business owners to make evident-based decisions concerning their business. The portal enriches the business community in the country as a knowledge society which interns promotes well-being, business prosperity , equity of chances and economic growth. The portal offers this through a user friendly, business intelligent system with bilingual access for support of foreign and local business practices alike that provides knowledge support to sustain business communities in the country.


Entity name

Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)

Entity country—type

Qatar Government

Entity website

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/pages/default.aspx