How Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Creates A New Generation Of Tech Champions – Entrepreneur

How Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Creates A New Generation Of Tech Champions – Entrepreneur

September

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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Saudi Arabia, like any other government around the world, has had to move quickly and substantively with its stimulus packages for businesses to get through this crisis. However, in addition to that, the government of Saudi Arabia has not allowed the crisis to pause or slow down its ongoing and ambitious plans for boosting the Kingdom's economy. According to Dr. Ahmed H. Altheneyan, Deputy Minister for Digital Capacities for the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) of Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom's ambitious social transformation projects are aimed at driving diversification across its economy, “with the government today acting as more of