JEDDAH: Hemaya, a Saudi information security association, aims to be a leader in the community by raising awareness of the safe use of technology. The association, which is the first nonprofit of its kind in Saudi Arabia, uses cybersecurity experts to help raise awareness on information security. Its services range from consultations, training, workshops, campaigns, and most
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In the Middle East, cyber sovereignty hampers economic diversification
January 6, 2021 Share
Rapid and unprecedented transformation in the Middle East, whether political, social, or technological, is forcing governments to reckon with enormous changes. Many governments are responding by attempting to pursue two contradictory paths forward cyber sovereignty and digital transformation and they might end up not achieving either.
Since its start a decade ago, the Arab Spring has changed the Middle East s geopolitics and tech landscape. Regional governments were not ready to deal with the budding, tech-savvy millennials in the streets of Cairo, Benghazi, and Sana a. The Twitter- and Facebook-empowered generation ended the multi-decade-long reigns of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh. The removal of these long-serving autocrats sent shockwaves across the region and made its capitals much more attentive to technology s influen
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