Saudi Arabia Ranks Third as One of World’s Most Technologically Advanced Nation
During the past decade the Saudi Arabian government launched initiatives that aimed to make the kingdom, one of the world’s most technologically advanced countries. Last year, the country came out with flying colors for achieving excellent ratings based on the World Bank’s GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) for 2022. To date, the Kingdom now ranks as the third most technologically advanced nation, whilst indexing it in the 2022 GTMI report as one of the world’s very developed countries.
Actually, as early as 2006, the government of KSA established the National Strategy for Digital Transformation, which served as a road map for the country’s digitization. Various technological transformations were mapped out as economic and social reforms that aimed to make the country less dependent on its oil industry.
Last year, in a press conference in Washington DC, the World Bank announced Saudi Arabia’s excellence for achieving an overall general maturity rate of 97.13 percent. The 2022 GTMI report showed KSA’s scores in all four aspects:
Core Government Systems – 96.29%
Fostering of Enablers – 97.69%
Service Delivery – 97.93%
Citizen Engagement – 96.62%
Abdullah Al-Swaha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Digital Government Authority, who was present at the event to acknowledge the accolades, expressed his appreciation for the support given by the Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz and His Highness, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
The high 2022 GTMI scores have actually placed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as belonging to the distinguished league of “very developed countries.”
The different Ministries of the Saudi government have been working on the core initiatives of the Vision 2030 launched over a decade ago. Yet in January of this year, the Saudi Arabian government announced that by 2040, as much as 2.5% of the nation’s GDP will be invested into research and development for more technology and innovations. The goal of which is to grow the country’s GDP by $16 billion by the end of 2040.
How Saudi’s Proactive Digital Strategies Impacted the Country’s Cleaning Industry
When the pandemic struck in 2020 and forced the world to swiftly adapt to digital methods, the situation made iterations necessary in the nation’s cleaning industry. Fortunately, the years of proactive technological transformations enabled The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to swiftly establish frameworks for the digitization of its commercial, financial, logistics and IT sectors. Cleaning companies abound in Jeddah ( شركات التنظيف بجدة ) but during the past two decades, the cleaning industry did not have any technological innovations.
Nevertheless, the industry experienced several groundbreaking innovations during the recent past 5 to 7 years. Automation and sensors for the Internet of Things (IoT) brought greater abilities that enabled companies to face the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. There are robots that team up with a human workforce to assemble super teams that can keep track of physical problems and ensure efficient results. Some other cleaning innovations are in the form of wearables, while others integrated gamification to make home chores more interest1ing to young people.