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Kingdom was in the middle of the third and final phase of its bold three-phase digital transformation strategy when COVID-19 struck. E-governance dominated the first two phases of the programme. In contrast, the current chapter, due to conclude in 2022, focuses on digital transformation in healthcare, education,
For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They identify a biological material that has some desirable trait, such as the toughness of bones or conch shells, and reverse-engineer it. Then, once they have determined the material’s ‘microstructure,’ they try to approximate it in human-
We are heading into a world where artificial intelligence will increasingly determine issues with our employment, healthcare, financial services, and criminal justice. According to the Ericsson AI Industry Lab report, an average of 49 per cent of AI and analytics decision-makers said they planned to complete their transformation journey
The internet has been a game-changer to our societies and how we do business for decades. We rely on the web so much that it became second nature for many of us to use it and expect it to work all the time, but it might be in danger
In the last few years, 5G took the world by storm. The fifth generation of communications took a long time, but it delivered on promises of superior speeds, lower latencies, and overall better cell service. According to Omdia, 5G networks worldwide added 225 million subscribers between Q3 2019 and Q3
In a first, students enrolling at Batterjee Medical College in Saudi Arabia this year will be able to type their way through the registration process via WhatsApp. The Jeddah-based college has a Dubai-based startup, Arabot, to thank for this digital shift. Arabot has built a chatbot that taps
Any lingering misgivings about blockchain’s standing in the region were laid to rest last month when Saudi Arabia’s central bank chose to use the technology to inject liquidity into the banking sector. In its ongoing support of the financial industry during the COVID-19 epidemic, the Saudi Arabian
