
The Ministry of Culture and Information joined SADAD Payment System on January 10, 2009 to allow the beneficiaries of the companies and individuals pay for the Ministry services from Om AlQura government newspaper advertisement, books registration, extraction of Permits and licenses and penalties payments easily through SADAD using all the available banking channels in the kingdom.
The very beginning of the Saudi Media indicates that the first creation of this media was a sequence of steps that had been carried out on a good scientific basis. With the growing interest in the media locally and internationally, a Royal Decree was issued on 9/10/1382H to convert the Directorate General of Press and Publication to The Ministry of Information to manage the Media. On 1424H, the Council of Ministers decided to change the name of Ministry of Information to the Ministry of Culture and Information.
Accompanied by the emergence of the Ministry of Culture and Information, the development of new media protocol to ensure that the Saudi citizen freedom of expression derived from the Islamic approach and policy of the country, that Includes the diffusion of virtue and morality and the teachings of Islam. The Saudi media is considered throughout history, a distinct and proactive Media and a strategy tool for internal politics in the Kingdom, it was also marked by the ability to address the ongoing media attacks from the outside. As well as using the Saudi media appliance as an intermediary to generate a sense of national loyality and to fight the erratic thoughts and catalyst of the definition of Saudi Arabia different cultures.