Since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman launched the ambitious vision of Saudi Arabia, its promising generations have fueled the enthusiasm for development and the making of a prosperous future, smarter, easier to deal and a better life, and it continues to lead them towards a beautiful tomorrow, aspiring dreamers of worlds of great progress, renaissance and development.This is Saudi Arabia, the new data and intelligence center. The Kingdom, through the first Artificial Intelligence World Summit, finally presented itself as a major engine and starting point for the future of data and artificial intelligence in the world. The wide global participation of specialists and experts from different countries of the world demonstrated the serious confidence in the Kingdom’s ability to lead an emerging sector in the most difficult times of the modern world, with all local, regional and international partners such as decision-makers, innovators, interested people and technologists.
The Kingdom provided the world with an ideal opportunity to explore new developments in the promising world of data, based on its interest in what data can provide in terms of an augmented and possible reality to explore the future and face future challenges.
Embodying the Saudi leadership’s belief in the transformation towards an economy based on knowledge and data, it worked on the transformation from traditional economic models to an economic model based on knowledge and learning, using modern technologies, including data and artificial intelligence. Towards the future, and the National Strategy for Data and Artificial Intelligence charts a clear path for tomorrow’s journey.
On a local level, the Kingdom has made remarkable leaps in the artificial intelligence sector, and has early adopted the importance of investing in the promising sector, taking several important steps to anticipate and prepare for the future of the sector, with the main and clear goal of “an easier technical life” for the Kingdom’s population. Among the most prominent Saudi steps towards shaping the future of data to achieve Vision 2030 is the establishment of government agencies mainly concerned with artificial intelligence, led by the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAA), which harnessed all capabilities to unlock the latent value of data as a national wealth to achieve the aspirations of Vision 2030 by defining the strategic direction of data. And artificial intelligence and supervision of its achievement.
With the aim of charting the features of the new era for future generations, the Kingdom realized that data is the oil of the 21st century, so the clear vision came to rise to the ranks of the leading global economies based on artificial intelligence. Saudi Arabia has the distinction of being one of the driving forces in the Middle East region, and it enjoys many unique strategic advantages, the most important of which are huge unique sectors, a driving force for investment, large-scale transformation programs, a young and vibrant society, a thriving environment for testing platforms in new and smart cities, in addition to a governance model. A strong patriot for data and intelligence.
Riyadh on the road to “smart cities”
The second and last day of the World Summit on Artificial Intelligence, organized by the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence (SDAA), yesterday (Thursday) witnessed Saudi Arabia signing 3 strategic agreements with IBM, Alibaba and Huawei. SADAA signed another memorandum of understanding with the International Telecommunication Union to support countries’ readiness and international cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence, and to create an internationally recognized system that mobilizes resources and provides support for official bodies to adopt artificial intelligence technology and adopt it to meet their various economic requirements.
The memorandum with “Ali Baba for Cloud Computing” aims to establish a strategic partnership to lead innovation in smart cities in the Kingdom using artificial intelligence technologies, during the work of the World Summit on Artificial Intelligence 2020.
The new partnership will support the Kingdom’s endeavors to develop smart cities with international specifications that can respond more effectively to the needs and desires of the population to improve the quality of life, and will focus on driving innovation and investment in smart cities in the Kingdom. With the aim of transforming the Kingdom’s cities to become more sustainable socially, economically and environmentally, it will also employ data and artificial intelligence to make cities smarter as well as enhance security and safety. Both “Sedaya” and “Alibaba” will also work on developing digital solutions and artificial intelligence applications in many sectors. Including: safety and security, transportation, urban planning, energy, education, health, and others, by making use of the capabilities of the artificial intelligence platforms of “Alibaba” to enable the cities of the Kingdom to manage public services intelligently, and to develop solutions that make them more flexible and responsive to the needs of Its inhabitants.
Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, head of the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, Dr. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi, explained that the march towards developing smart cities that are classified among the smartest in the world is proceeding in full swing in the city of Riyadh, and this partnership with “Ali Baba for Cloud Computing” will support the acceleration of the transformation of our cities, from By enabling artificial intelligence-based technologies that in turn will contribute to sustainable economic development and improving the quality of life of our citizens. While the MoU with Huawei supports strategic cooperation to activate the National Program for Capacity Development, one of the Kingdom’s initiatives aimed at developing local artificial intelligence capabilities. Under the new memorandum, Huawei will support training programs for Saudi engineers and students specializing in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as joint development to raise the capabilities of artificial intelligence for the Arabic language.
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