Saudi Arabia implements data driven-government to realise digital economy as part Vision 2030

Saudi Arabia implements data driven-government to realise digital economy as part Vision 2030

More than 300 senior government officials, Chief Information Officers, IT experts, ICT companies, public policymakers, and technology developers will brainstorm at the two-day Data-Driven Government Conference, KSA, in Riyadh from November 9 to 10, 202

Published: Tue 27 Sep 2022, 9:46 PM

Saudi Arabia, which is executing the third phase of the three-stage data-driven government or the National Strategy for Digital Transformation, is currently bringing all the public services under a single digital platform as part of the Smart Government Strategy (2020-2024), that once implemented, will deliver public services through smart phones, on the citizen’s fingertips.

The National Strategy for Digital Transformation that has been aligned with the Saudi Vision 2030 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), will ensure complete eradication of poverty, gender equality, access to education and information to all Saudi Arabian citizens, that will change the socio-economic landscape of the Kingdom.

The Government has already created the Digital Government Authority and Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA), to spearhead the digital transformation programme. In a few years’ time, Saudi Arabia has introduced more than 30 cloud services, established 169 data centres, more than 175 datasets, successfully implemented 8 digital policies, aligned 130 government departments, registered more than 600,000 establishments