If you are like most people in Qatar, your Facebook and Twitter probably have friends and followers from all over the world. And while it’s great to have international friends, when their native language is different than yours and they post or tweet in it, you may have no clue what they are saying. I [...]
15 Dec
Did you hear Gerd Leonhard speak in Doha last week? No?! Well you missed out! Gerd is a media futurist – someone who takes a look at the current media landscape and tries to help businesses and individuals prepare for the future. He was among the first to recognize that the Internet would destroy the [...]
13 Dec
ictQATAR’s Section Manager on Numbering, Interconnection and Internet Domains, Mohamed Al-Bashir, shares his insight on how government can and are taking advantage of new media to serve their constituents. Visit Mohamed’s blog! Public service organizations around the world are jumping on the new media and web 2.0 bandwagon— engaging citizens through social networks, blogging, developing [...]
09 Dec
Has the buzz worn off yet from Qatar’s historic winning bid for the 2022 World Cup? No? Well great – it should last for awhile, but now comes the hard part – delivering on everything that was promised. In many ways, Qatar promised the moon, and technology was certainly a focal piece of the bid. [...]
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30 Dec