Saudi Arabia has participated in the Global Forum on Technology held by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
The Kingdom’s participation at the forum, represented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), aimed at exchanging expertise and views on the developments in the IT sector at the national and global levels.
Participating in a panel session titled “digital technology gap,” Daniah Orkoubi, the Undersecretary of MCIT for Technological Foresight & Digital Economy, reviewed the procedures the Kingdom has taken to lay the foundations of an efficient digital infrastructure under the targets of the Saudi Vision 2030.
She also reviewed the Kingdom's programs to empower Saudi women and support digital talents.
Orkoub pointed out that the Kingdom also has the largest number of digital talents in the region, with 340,000 male and female workers in the communications and IT sector.
She highlighted the Kingdom’s efforts to bridge the digital gap through several initiatives, chiefly the Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Program, in a way that contributes to achieving inclusiveness and prosperity of human communities.
