Today, the Ministry of Information launched the Sultanate of Oman Information Portal under the patronage of Sayyid Hamoud bin Faisal Al Busaidi, Minister of Interior, as part of the activities of the Fourth Media Family Forum (Our Media: A Renewed Commitment).The portal includes comprehensive information on the Sultanate of Oman in three languages (Arabic, English and French). The website’s home page includes major news in all its sectors, in addition to presenting words of His Majesty's pronouncement, and news monitoring about the Sultanate through the publication in the international media.
The home page also offers a wide variety of publications, in addition to a review of the most important Omani achievements. In addition, the home page provides Omani files on sport and youth, security and defense, economy, Omani figures, the health sector, the education sector, the logistics sector, civil society institutions, heritage and culture, social welfare, tourism and other files. The portal’s home page also displays in a distinctive manner the events held in the Sultanate; it displays the event, venue and time, in addition to showing the directions to the site where the event is held through the Global Positioning System (GPS) to facilitate the task of reaching the events locations.
In another important corner, the media portal displays live statistics provided by the National Centre for Statistics and Information, with a direct link from it, reviewing many important and approved official statistical aspects. This data is updated periodically from the National Statistics Centre.The electronic library of the media portal contains a large number of different medias, including the photo library, which includes a large number of sections in a variety of forms, a library of books and various Omani publications, in addition to the publications of the Ministry of Information, master's and doctoral theses, laws and media covenants.
In keeping with the technical development, the (Media Portal Application) also features many technical advantages through which it supports the two operating systems, Android and iOS. It supports 98% of Android devices in various versions from the fourth version to the last and it is linked to the parent website of the media portal and updates the content automatically.The Sultanate of Oman's media portal is an encyclopaedia that provides integrated information in different interactive media templates for all audiences of the virtual world and as an effective network that will automatically publish and interact continuously and provide the information the recipient needs on the worldwide information network (the Internet).