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Microsoft executive praised Saudi Arabia’s progression towards its digital economy

Microsoft executive praised Saudi Arabia during a visit to the country where he lauded the Saudi government’s ambitious vision and initiatives.

Samer Abu-Ltaif, Microsoft‘s Corporate VP & President of Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, praised Saudi Arabia’s transition on the “digital economy” map, which, he believes, represents one of the highlights of its evolution toward future economic development and diversification.

Abu-Ltaif’s comments came after his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, where he lauded the government’s ambitious vision and initiatives, as well as their efforts to advance the course of digitization of Saudi’s national economy. Abu-Ltaif commended Microsoft’s ability to enable the public and private sectors to achieve these transformations, thanks to innovation and expertise that will help it reach technological economic sustainability. Local government efforts were recently praised by KPMG.

Abu-Ltaif declared that Microsoft would contribute directly and indirectly to establishing the Kingdom’s strong and evolving digital structure, ramp up its digital transformation process, and support its ambitious vision of building a digital society, digital government, and a thriving digital economy.

The Microsoft executive praised Saudi Arabia for its response to Covid 19 and highlighted the role that Microsoft’s digital and cloud solutions in both the public and private sectors played in addressing the problems caused by the pandemic, specifically in the field of education.

Abu-Ltaif emphasized Microsoft’s full support to the Green Saudi Arabia Initiative launched by the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in March, by contributing to resist the challenges of climate change; demonstrating Microsoft’s technological ability to achieve the initiative’s chief goal and reach the “zero-carbon” level, which coincides with the Microsoft’s aims to become carbon negative by 2030. Microsoft aims to ultimately eliminate the carbon footprint by 2050, to achieve the planet’s environmental sustainability.



Source: https://www.itp.net/news/microsoft-executive-praised-saudi-arabia-during-a-visit-to-the-country

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