MoTC and Ooredoo Qatar sign agreement to expand GDC 17 Jan 2021 - 9:51 The Peninsula Doha: The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) and Ooredoo Qatar have signed an agreement to expand the Government Data Centre (GDC). The new GDC, also known as GDC2, will allow various government entities to host their mission-critical IT and network infrastructure in Ooredoo’s QDC5 purpose-built secure Tier III Data Centre facility in Qatar. Connected to the Government Network (GN), GDC2 provides hosting as well as basic and advanced monitoring services to hosted government entities. This will further enhance the ability of the public sector as a whole to acquire data centre capacity, without the need for additional capital expenditure.