Ministry of Justice migrates Legal Portal to Microsoft Cloud

The Ministry of Justice completed the cloudmigration procedures as part of its digital transformation planunder the umbrella of the strategic partnership that the State of Qatar,represented by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC)signed with Microsoft a year ago, to establish Microsoft cloud regionsin the State, to be an approved national platform for cloud computingservices for Qatar and the world.In this regard, the Ministry of Justice has completed the procedures fortransferring the data of Qatar Legal Portal (Al-Meezan), which is themost comprehensive official legal website for Qatari legislation since1963 until now, to the Microsoft Cloud computing environment, while therest of the services are being transferred to the Microsoft Cloud usingthe latest digital technology, making it available at Azure marketplatform, and allowing users to access portal services from anywhere inthe world.On this occasion, Director of the Information Systems Department at theMinistry of Justice Khalid Mohammed Ibrahim said that the cloudtransferring plan came within the framework of the Ministry's digitaltransformation plan, and under the directions of HE the Minister of JusticeMasoud bin Mohammed Al Ameri, to speed up its procedures in line withthe requirements of Qatar Digital Government program and the objectivesof Qatar National Vision 2030, which aims to maximize the return ofknowledge and technology to the country's economy and communitydevelopment.He added that the move of the Ministry's services to cloud computingwill enable it to expand safely and quickly in its digital services,facilitate the mechanism for accessing them, and reduce costs, whileensuring that the legal systems and regulations approved in theprovision of services, and the requirements of compliance systems thatenhance the ministry's classification in global indicators.