The Foreign Information Agency, the government organization in charge of providing comprehensive information about Qatar to the world, has launched its ambitious information portal. Providing rich information about Qatar in three Languages (Arabic, English & French), the site aims to give a view of Qatar’s ambitious developments and progress on various fronts, including education, economy and culture.

It tells the world the unique story of Qatar, its history, its present and its bold steps to the future. The site provides news and in-depth information about Qatar’s politics, geography and history, economy, energy and industry, sports, environment and tourism. It also contains links to Qatar’s most important sites.

iHorizons, the region’s leading Internet software developer and content management solution vendor, was in charge of designing and implementing the portal, and will be maintaining and developing it. Mr. Mohamad Takriti, iHorizons CEO says: “we have been working with the FIA for more than a year now to create a unique portal for Qatar on the net, and to reflect the progressive and energetic state of the country to the whole world.” He ads “using iHorizons advanced Internet technologies, the site provides dynamic, rich content, and enables its users to easily browse and search the site, and interact with it through elements like live votes. It also provides up to date news, weather and financial information related to Qatar. We are very proud of this one-of-a-kind portal in the region.”

iHorizons Knowledge Server, the leading Arabic content management system in the region, enables site editors to easily create, manage and publish content (including text, images and audio/video files) using its easy-to-use interface and powerful features. This same system powers some of the richest Arabic websites like Al Jazeera Net, the Qatar National Olympic Committee, the National Council for Culture, Arts and Heritage, and many other unique Arabic sites that iHorizons has developed in the past eight years.

The site will shortly be available in 10 languages, making it one of the world’s few sites offering such language diversity. It has other ambitious plans like providing live coverage of important events in Qatar and detailed agendas of such future events. A large FIA team of multilingual journalists and writers specialized in various areas create and publish content for the site around the clock.