Tribune news network
doha
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry organized a round-table discussion with a number of technology companies, in aim of discussing the main challenges facing the technology sector and seeking solutions that will help develop it.
Saleh bin Majid Al-Khulaifi, Undersecretary for Industry and Business Development Affairs participated in the session.
Thesession is one of a series of meetings held by MOCI with the private sector in aim of discussing and evaluating the challenges and obstacles of number of major sectors in the country, one of which is the technology sector.
This comes within the framework of the ministry’s efforts to support main sectors and provide all companies working in them with their needs, simplify the current procedures, review international practises, and come up with useful solutions that will help establishing a creative business environment in Qatar.
The session discussed a number of crucial topics, some of which are the main challenges facing the technology sector and how to defy them, the effective strategies that can be implemented to attract and keep the best technological talents in Qatar, the obstacles that prevent direct foreign investments in technology in Qatar, the strategic measures that may be implemented to make Qatar more attractive to international investors in technology, in addition to identifying the procedures that MOCI shall adopt to support the sustainability of environmental technological system in Qatar to the fullest.
Moreover, main projects and initiatives launched by MOCI to support the technology sector were highlighted, in addition to a number of suggestions that will support the projects and prevent challenges. It is worth to be mentioned that MOCI has organized earlier this year a number of round-table discussions on the challenges facing construction, real estate, and retail and consumer goods, and the solutions that will help developing and supporting those sectors and the companies working in them.
