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Middle East News

Saudi Arabia signs off on Artificial Intelligence policy

King Salman Bin Abdulaziz has approved Saudi Arabia’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy, which is expected to contribute an estimated 500 billion riyals (US$133 billion) to gross domestic product (GDP) by […]

Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure pays dividends in COVID response and recovery

Saudi Arabia’s investment in digital infrastructure helped ease the burden of COVID-19 lockdown measures, ensured easy access to e-government services and is likely to support the country’s economic recovery, according […]

Dubai mandates use of single digital ID system across government

Dubai residents are to use a single digital identity to access more than 5,000 government services in the city and other parts of the United Arab Emirates. The UAE PASS, […]

Blockchain exiting ‘hype cycle’, says US GovLab chief

Blockchain technologies have passed rapidly through a “hype cycle”, the head of a public sector innovation lab said last week – and what’s coming out of the other side is […]

Biometric HR system launched for Afghan civil servants

Afghanistan’s Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission (IARCSC) has developed a new biometric system which will register the data of all civil servants within the next year. The Human […]

Kuwait cancels contracts for foreign civil servants

Work contracts for more than 3,000 non-Kuwaitis serving in the public sector have been cancelled, in a bid to replace expatriates with nationals in the service. The announcement was made […]

World Bank agrees US$200m social aid package for Iraq

A US$200 million emergency package to provide social support and employment for communities devastated in Iraq’s ongoing armed conflicts has been agreed by the World Bank. The Emergency Social Stabilization […]

Saudi retreat from austerity may hit economic diversification

Saudi Arabia’s decision to reverse cuts to civil service pay and benefits reflect a wobble in the Kingdom’s determination to diversify its economy away from dependence on oil, a UK […]

More of Egypt’s officials protest against civil service law

More government workers have taken to the streets of Egypt to protest against a new civil service law, which they say is incompatible with the country’s constitution. The new law […]

The OECD to launch first global assessment on students’ digital skills

Countries around the world are to be ranked according to their students’ digital skills. The OECD will publish a report report on Tuesday which will discuss the differences in access to and […]