The SPA officials also briefed the visiting Deputy Premier and Information Minister of Sudan on an explanation of the mechanism of work and publication through the Agency's official portal http://www.spa.gov.sa/ and the new media in different platforms. For his part, Dr. Othman lauded the quantum leap achieved by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on the level of employing technology in a remarkable and exemplary manner, and adapting it to contribute to the achievement of media work that keeps pace with the development and renaissance being witnessed by the various media, the readable, audible or visible which seeks to maintain its status under the global information revolution, which coincides with a new media taking the social media websites as information platforms to provide the media message according to traditional templates and other innovative and new. He also praised the outstanding media work being carried out by the SPA by qualified and specialized Saudi media cadres. --SPA 21:37 LOCAL TIME 18:37 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w511013