{"id":41022,"date":"2019-09-04T15:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=41022"},"modified":"2019-09-10T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T13:30:07","slug":"mcit-and-nokia-to-launch-nokia-rd-unit-for-developing-software-in-ksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2019\/09\/04\/mcit-and-nokia-to-launch-nokia-rd-unit-for-developing-software-in-ksa\/","title":{"rendered":"MCIT and Nokia to launch Nokia R&D unit for developing software in KSA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nSaudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology [MCIT] has entered\ninto an agreement with Nokia to launch the Nokia R&D unit for developing\nsoftware in KSA.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nagreement was signed by H.E Deputy Minister of Communications and Information\nTechnology, Eng. Haitham Bin Abdul-Rahman Al-Ohali, and Amr K. El Leithy, Head\nof the Middle East and Africa Market, Nokia, in the presence of H.E Minister of\nCommunications and Information Technology, Eng. Abdullah Bin Amer Alswaha and\nRajeev Suri, the President and CEO of Nokia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nco-operation aims to establish a Nokia software development unit and Bell Labs Research\nUnit in KSA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\naddition, the co-operation envisages establishment of a maintenance centre for\nbase station components. The centre will primarily serve KSA and will possibly cover\nGulf Co-operation Council members in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally,\nlocal talent development training programmes and collaboration programmes in 5G\nand IoT will be established. Furthermore, it will also envisage MCIT supporting\nNokia in joint programmes together with the Saudi Digital Academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based\non the co-operation, Nokia experts will provide ICT consultancy services, and\npresent trends and opportunities especially in areas such as spectrum\nallocation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both\nparties will work on accelerating the efforts in Digital Transformation of the\nenergy sector, by developing the digital skills of the sector\u2019s staff members\nto realise Saudi ICT Strategy 2023 that aims to establish a strong digital\ninfrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such\ndigital infrastructure will contribute to the acceleration of the Digital Transformation\nprocess and realisation of 2030 Saudi Vision. The co-operation will also\nenhance the role of the ICT sector to build a digital society, digital\ngovernment and digital economy in KSA. .
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\nAdditionally, the co-operation aims to train young talents in digital\ntechnologies to develop local content. It will also establish two research and\nsoftware development units for developing high-quality products by the company\nin KSA. \n\nThe co-operation also\nenvisages the creation of an environment that attracts local and international\ninvestments into the technology industry and enable knowledge transfer, in\naddition to creating job opportunities in line with Saudi Vision 2030 towards\ndiversifying the national economy.

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The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology [MCIT] has entered into an agreement with Nokia to launch the Nokia R&D unit for developing software in KSA. The agreement was signed by H.E Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Eng. Haitham Bin Abdul-Rahman Al-Ohali, and Amr K. El Leithy, Head of the Middle East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[809,3629,78,791,332,79],"tags":[7254,300,10112,790,3666,1296,277,10111,6401,8299],"class_list":["post-41022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-news","category-newsletter","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-ksa","category-software","category-used","tag-bell-labs","tag-gcc","tag-gulf-co-operation-council","tag-ksa","tag-mcit","tag-nokia","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-digital-academy","tag-saudi-ministry-of-communications-and-information-technology","tag-software"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41027,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41022\/revisions\/41027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}