Survey on Rayyan World Cup stadium launched

Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim al-Thani, QSA president (left), briefing the media about the e-survey.The Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee in partnership with the Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) has kicked-off its survey on the 2022 FIFA World Cup stadium set to be built in Al Rayyan municipality. QSA yesterday said it is carrying out its e-survey to help citizens and the expats in the country to understand the dynamics of sustainable living in the coming decade.Qatar has promised five new stadiums for the 2022 edition of the FIFA World Cup and the stadium at Al Rayyan will be one of the brand new facilities to be used at football’s showpiece event.Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim al-Thani, QSA president and Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee’s Legacy Committee Chairman, said the second survey would be run for over three weeks.“By interacting with the communities and collecting their feedback - as to how they see the development - will allow us to align and realign our future development programmes according to the wishes of the people,” Sheikh Hamad said in a chat with local media.“We have to look at the options to sustain our projects linked to the World Cup,” the QSA president said.“We have to look at the legacy of the World Cup beyond 2022 and that matters to us. The role of the legacy committee is to ensure that we co-ordinate, integrate and develop appropriate mechanisms and means for ensuring that whoever is going to be in the execution business should understand that the development (in the coming years) will be sustained and maintained beyond 2022,” he said.“We are looking at this from many aspects. Whatever investments we make in our infrastructure - soft and hard - will be sustained and utilised in the most appropriate manner.“We want to know how we can ensure that this legacy will have a more competitive dimension (after the 2022 FIFA World Cup). At the end of the day, we are aiming, as a country, to ensure that we have a more modern and smart, if you like, city and society,” Sheikh Hamad said.“This will only come through installing and developing the best practices in terms of infrastructure and other associated requirements.“The bottom line - in terms of legacy - is that we will have a very critical role to play in terms of be it framework, guidelines and the precedent to meet this kind of expectation and standard. That’s the role of the legacy committee,” Sheikh Hamad said.Sheikh Hamad said e-surveys was the best way of collecting accurate data in a short period of time.“In Qatar we have a robust IT structure. We have decided to employ technology to get the feedback. We use e-survey linked to our website run by the Qatar Statistics Authority, the QOC website and some other government portals,” Sheikh Hamad said.“We will never be able to reach out to each and every individual living in the country but for speed and accuracy on our results from our surveys, e-surveys are best. Also, we can release the results in a timely manner. If we do surveys manually (by going door-to-door), we will be stretched in so many different ways. It will take a long time, it would become a tedious process,” he added.The QSA chief added that the choice of relying on e-survey was a deliberate decision keeping in mind Qatar’s eco-friendly policy at all levels of government operations.“Those not familiar with the use of Internet would be helped by trained staff visiting ‘majlis’ or common places of gatherings to get verbal answers to the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee/QSA questionnaires,” he said.Sheikh Hamad said the drill of collecting feedback from the residents - Qataris and the expats - was not a FIFA requirement. The QSA chief said the Al Wakrah survey in February this year helped create a positive impact for both parties.