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TASMU Smart Qatar Central Platform

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Description
Description
TASMU Central Platform is the lead enabler of the Smart Qatar vision. This cloud-based IoT platform will facilitate smart city service orchestration and will be a single point of contact for the citizens, service providers and the other smart city ecosystem players in enabling end-to-end smart city experience. The Central Platform will have the potential to transform the lives of everyone in Qatar by generating economic opportunities and providing services, available for consumption through the TASMU Marketplace Portal and Mobile Application.
Expected Impact

Nationwide digital transformation into a Smart City, including a digital culture, by enabling Smart City Services and potentially Government Services to citizens and visitors of Qatar. This impact will be increased through increased use, providing data driven decision-making and machine-learning based recommendations to better Qatar, its Services, both public and private, and ensure that the Qatar National Vision 2030 KPIs are met or exceeded.

Partners
Ministry of Transport and Communications, Ooredoo (Private sector), Microsoft (Private sector), Malomatia (Private sector), Delta Partners (Private sector), PwC (Private sector), Accenture (Private sector), ATOS Consulting (Private sector), Tata Consulting Services (Private sector)

Goal 9

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 9

9.1

Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
9.1.1

Proportion of the rural population who live within 2 km of an all-season road

9.1.2

Passenger and freight volumes, by mode of transport

9.2

Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries

9.2.1

Manufacturing value added as a proportion of GDP and per capita

9.2.2

Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment

9.3

Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets
9.3.1

Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added

9.3.2

Proportion of small-scale industries with a loan or line of credit

9.4

By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities

9.4.1

CO2 emission per unit of value added

9.5

Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending
9.5.1

Research and development expenditure as a proportion of GDP

9.5.2

Researchers (in full-time equivalent) per million inhabitants

9.a

Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries and small island developing States
9.a.1

Total official international support (official development assistance plus other official flows) to infrastructure

9.b

Support domestic technology development, research and innovation in developing countries, including by ensuring a conducive policy environment for, inter alia, industrial diversification and value addition to commodities
9.b.1

Proportion of medium and high-tech industry value added in total value added

9.c

Significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020

9.c.1

Proportion of population covered by a mobile network, by technology

Goal 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Goal 17

17.1

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.1.1
Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source
17.1.2
Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

17.2

Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

17.2.1
Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI)

17.3

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.1

Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources 

17.3.2
Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

17.4

Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

17.4.1
Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services

17.5

Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

17.5.1

Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries

17.6

Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

17.6.1

 Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed

17.7

Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

17.7.1

Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies

17.8

Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

17.8.1
Proportion of individuals using the Internet

17.9

Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

17.9.1

Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

17.10

Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

17.10.1
Worldwide weighted tariff-average

17.11

Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

17.11.1

Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports

17.12

Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

17.12.1

Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

17.13

Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

17.13.1
Macroeconomic Dashboard

17.14

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.14.1
Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development

17.15

Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development 

17.15.1
Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation

17.16

Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.16.1

Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

17.17

Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships 

17.17.1

Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

17.18

By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

17.18.1

Statistical capacity indicators

17.18.2
Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics
17.18.3

Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding

17.19

By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

17.19.1
Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries
17.19.2

Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

Name Description
Use of Artificial Intelligence to provide immediate short-term improvement and automation to services which utilize manual methodologies.
Providing strong data enablement in order to integrate sectors to provide efficient and interlinked services and smart solutions in order to fulfil and exceed Qatar National Vision 2030 KPIs.
Providing cost-effective, government-backed solutions and enable a fostering & inclusive environment for startups to ensure a competitive marketplace which sets standards for quality of service.
Machine Learning (ML) enablement to aggregate anonymized data and Open Data to provide insights for improvements, provided that appropriate data is available for each sector.
Staff / Technical expertise
Ooredoo Consortium and Partners (Enablement, Cloud in Qatar etc.)
Financing (in USD)
Large financial investment ($350M) and continuous ecosystems re-investment for economies of scale. TASMU Digital Valley (international and national investment)
Other, please specify
TASMU Investment Lab (Startups and innovation)
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Timeline
24 December 2019 (start date)
31 January 2028 (date of completion)
Entity
Ministry of Transport and Communications
SDGs
9 17
Region
  1. West Asia
Geographical coverage
Doha, Qatar
Other beneficiaries
National enterprises in Qatar (i.e. Visionaries, Developers, Start-Ups, Small Enterprises, Medium Enterprises, Large Enterprises)\\r\\nInternational Enterprises\\r\\nCitizens and Residents of Qatar\\r\\nTourists visiting Qatar, including those attending FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™
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Contact Information

Reem Al-Mansoori, Assistant Undersecretary of Digital Society Development Sector

digsoc@motc.gov.qa