Saudi Arabia starts tech initiatives to enhance country’s worldwide position and generate more startups


(MENAFN) On Wednesday, Aug. 25, in order to improve its global level in digital fields, like artificial intelligence, Saudi Arabia started a chain of initiatives.

Hima processing, as one of the initiatives, is a fresh program aiming to encourage novelty in enterprises with a rate of USD 670 million, the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Abdullah Al-Swaha, revealed at the initiating event in Riyadh.

One way of measuring the triumph of making a competent workforce in Saudi Arabia is amplifying the quantity of computer programmers for every 100,000 citizens, reported the minister.

Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, senior of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority said, the Kingdome intends to take a place between the top five countries internationally in AI, and this demands the establishment of 25,000 professionals’ jobs in data science and AI before the year 2030.

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