Enhancing digital trust is a shared responsibility

Enhancing digital trust is a shared responsibility

- Panelists included executives from GSMA, AICTO, UAE Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT), Mobily, and stc Group

Dubai, UAE – The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) seminar titled “Enhance Digital Trust for a Sustainable, Connected, Intelligent World”, sponsored by Huawei and held during the SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023, concluded that digital transformation will only realize its potential social and economic benefits if responsibilities are shared by different stakeholders with specific roles. The seminar explored the opportunities and challenges posed by ICT and digital transformation. Leaders from the Arab ICT Organisation, GSMA, Huawei, International Telecommunications Union (ITU), UAE Government, the UAE Computer Emergency Response, Mobily and stc Group called for multi-stakeholder collaboration including governments, policymakers, industry associations, academia, corporations and civil society to play their part to support ICT development.

During the opening ceremony of the SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023, His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahyan, UAE Cabinet Member and Minister for Tolerance and Coexistence called for responsibility within the ICT industry as the industry develops and said: “In UAE, we share the aspiration of having a digital world that is sustainable, secure and meets present and future needs, committed to satisfying best international standards and ready to