The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) announced the launch of the first 13 of 1,000 technology projects that will be implemented under the recently unveiled Technology Transformation Program.

The younger generation in Africa is the most over-educated and under-employed in the world. They are very creative, smart, innovative and hardworking. However, today, six out of every 10 persons aged between 15 to 29 years in Africa do not have jobs.

Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi Crown Prince, declared that the Public Investment Fund (PIF) would launch five regional businesses with investments in Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, Iraq, and Oman.

Impulse, a venture capital company that brings technology and business solutions into the region and Software AG have announced a strategic partnership to launch Kuwait’s first IoT platform.

RiseUp with ServiceNow is a global program designed to train one million people on the company’s platform by 2024. The program will fuel a new economy of in-demand, job-ready talent in the high-growth ServiceNow ecosystem, with an emphasis on faster, more equitable career paths.