Vision 2030 puts Saudi Arabia in the right way to achieve power stability and reduce emissions

Saudi Arabia has been successful in consolidating its position, which is one of the world’s most popular digital powers based on the prestigious strategic focus of the “Vision 2030”, which has kept a digital transformation in the heart of the economic and social reform system.

This trend has been expressed by heavy investments in the infrastructure of the communications and information technology sector, resulting in the construction of the technical market, which is the largest and fast -growing day in the region.

The progress report for the “Vision 2030” for the year 2024 is estimated to be the digital economy in the state as 495 billion reals ($ 132 billion), which is equivalent to 15 percent of GDP, with a remarkable development in the digital business environment, and the advanced provisions of the local market.

Transformation outputs

The “Abshar” electronic platform is the first product of this transition; It is a starting point to expand government digital services, sophisticated platforms such as “Tawaclna” and “Nafal”, and these platforms indicate a serious change in the relationship between the state and the citizens through the inevitable and most effective services.

Saudi Arabia has established Digital Government and Data and Artificial Intelligence Body (Saya) to consolidate digitization efforts and to lead the process of investing heavy data; It helped to accelerate digital transformation and increase the position of the kingdom in international indicators. Saudi Arabia ranked sixth in the world in the United Nations E -Governance Development Index in 2024, skipping the time target and reached fifth in 2030. The first came regional, the second in the G20 countries, and in the fourth world of the Digital Services Index.

“The First” worldwide

Successes are not limited to general indicators, but expanded to sub -forms; Saudi Arabia ranks first in the world in open government data and government digital skills, and is the seventh place in the Electronic Participation Index, which reflects the maturity and integration of the digital system.

Growth in 2024 increased from about 180 billion reals ($ 48 billion), and women’s participation in the technology sector increased from 7 percent to 35 percent in 2024 in 2017, and more than 381 thousand qualitative jobs were created in Technical Fells.

99 % Internet Spread

Among the digital infrastructure indicators, Saudi Arabia continues to rank the second rank worldwide in the Etisalat Development and Information Technology Development Index, respectively, and over 3.9 million homes with optical fiber networks.

In the cyber security sector, after the National Portal “Hussein”, after the establishment of the National Academy of Cyber ​​Security, to obtain the digital environment and increased the confidence in the electronic services system, according to the World Competition, the first rank of the Cyber ​​Security Index for the year 2024.

The cyber security market in the state is estimated to be 13.3 billion Reals ($ 3.5 billion), the private sector offers 69 percent, while the public sector is 31 percent. The sector has over 19.6,000 experts, and has 355 facilities in the market, which provides advanced cyber solutions.

Development of artificial intelligence

In the Artificial Intelligence File, Saudi Arabia is the third world in the world, in the Observatory of the Artificial Intelligence Policy, its affiliated security index, has made great progress in the world index of eleventh rank and Artificial Intelligence Development worldwide. It was the first country to receive an accreditation of ISO 42001: 2023, and recorded a significant success by receiving 22 medals in the World Youth AI competition.

In this trend, sophisticated artificial intelligence apps such as “Deep Sick” are operating in Aranko data centers in Dammam.

With this fast performance, the Kingdom continues to improve its digital competitiveness, which runs through a clear national plan intended to transform the state into a pioneering regional center in the field of technology and innovation and verify its active role in the new world economy based on knowledge, data and artificial intelligence.