Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia immediately boasts the most important pool of digital expertise within the Center East, with greater than 389,000 specialists in digital professions, in accordance with Safa Al-Rashed, appearing deputy minister for Future Expertise and Capabilities on the Ministry of Communications and Data Know-how.
Talking at a panel in Riyadh on Thursday titled “Empowering Tomorrow’s Workforce: Insights from Imaginative and prescient 2030,” Al-Rashed mentioned greater than 200,000 folks have benefited from digital consciousness packages, whereas synthetic intelligence and expertise programs have been launched in a number of universities.
Girls now account for 35 % of the sector’s workforce, surpassing the worldwide and G20 averages — a pointy improve from simply 7 % in 2018.
“Empowering nationwide cadres with future-ready expertise is the muse for strengthening the Kingdom’s place as a world hub for innovation and human capital growth,” Al-Rashed mentioned.
She added that constructing a diversified digital economic system beneath Imaginative and prescient 2030 depends on the Kingdom’s investments in its residents.
“Our little children are the first engine of the sensible economic system, outfitted for steady studying, adaptability and a tradition of innovation,” she mentioned.
Increasing partnerships between the private and non-private sectors and tutorial establishments, she famous, is essential to sustaining momentum.