Kuwait eyes digital transformation and industrial revolution

Kuwait eyes digital transformation and industrial revolution

KUWAIT: Ushering rapid digital transformation, bolstering cybersecurity, and implementing the fourth industrial revolution are integral goals within Kuwait’s Vision 2035, said the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD) on Sunday. In an interview with Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) prior to the UN Sustainable Development Summit in New York on September 18–19, Secretary General of SCPD Dr. Khaled Mahdi said that implementing digital transformation would smooth the path for Kuwait to be part of the fourth industrial revolution.

He added that government services in Kuwait would make huge leaps through digital transformation, noting that sustainable development in all aspects would boost the capital of human resources and help future generations excel. There would be no development without investing in future generations, and this matter is within Kuwait’s 2035 Vision, as pointed out by Mahdi. Sustainable development is not a recent development; Kuwait has been working on it since establishing the Future Generations Fund in the era of the late Amir Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah in 1979, a step aimed at ensuring the prosperity of future generations, added the official.

In regards to the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Dr. Mahdi affirmed that Kuwait was eager