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B Swaminathan
Dubai: ICT and Computerized Change advancements play an undeniably critical part in empowering these plans, particularly as they gain development and new applications are created. It is assessed that each 20% expansion in ICT speculation brings about a north of 1% development in a nation’s Gross domestic product. Middle-East government elements are supposed to spend over US$15 billion out of 2018 in computerized change empowering advancements. While even the most exceptional nations in the district actually fall behind other worldwide economies as far as Computerized Government as per Public ICT lists. It consequently, gives a guide and proposals to territorial government offices to assist them with beating barriers in the computerized venture and open doors.
Here are some of the leaders from the Middle East and Africa Region speaking about the growth of advanced technologies in the regions.
Abdul Rahman, Head of Sales, EZPos, KSA
Of course we are moving very aggressively towards the sector. The government is also supporting us in all ways of technology. Be it the government and also the citizens are also trying better to adopt more sophisticated way using technology. With the higher education level coming up, we have to adopt better security. In 2024, most of the companies from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are moving towards digital and are expanding across the globe.
Tarek IZEMRANE, Co-founder and CTO, Scaling Smart, Algeria
In the last couple of years we see a great enthusiasm and growth in market in Algeria with the new technologies on board. With more technologies and cyber securities are coming, many private and government institutions see cyber security as vital element. In the last couple of years, the government pushes the investment on training on companies specialized in cyber security. Also, in the universities or high schools, we see all schools had created specialized educational certifications in cyber security. Post COVID there are lot of attacks coming towards us due to the political and social environment.
V C Mani, Head, Sales, North Star Technology, Bahrain
Basically after COVID customers are looking for solutions towards advanced AI computing and solutions and priority will be given for digital transformation through cloud. As of now, one challenge I find in the digital transformation is many enterprises are completely going on cloud. One big challenge is every organization is suddenly shifting towards new technology completely ignoring the old technologies. Another challenge is the lack of skilled resources who will address the needs of the industry. Overall cyber security is the key challenge is every organization is facing and most of the companies are prepared for a better protection of their data. Expectations are increasing in a new way. Most companies expect started asking for AI-driven cyber security to tackle the attacks. Overall, the challenge is not on handling the attacks but how to protect the attacks.
Baheru Zeyenu, Africom Technologies, Ethopia
Telecom services which was monopolized earlier has been made digitalized. With more incentives for digital products and Government itself is pushing more towards digitization, this is one of the encouragement where market is booming. We are also getting offshore projects. That market size also increased and is known for exporting their services. With similar resources and cheaper costs, African countries are getting more potential in these days. In 2024, we anticipate entire Ethopia citizens will have a digital id. We are taking India as a model with respect to creating unique identification for the citizens. Like Adhaar in India, Ethopia will have many projects initiated through the digital id. Many African countries are getting into free trade agreement. Trade facilitation initiatives on digital transformation will be a true game changer not just for Ethopia but the entire African region.
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