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The National Digitization Unit (NDU) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has actually authorized a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with NXN (formerly neXgen), a leading smart city consulting and digital service provider in the Middle East and Africa, marking NDU's initial step in the direction of harnessing open data to attain the digital transformation of the Kingdom.

The MOU underpins an existing partnership between the two entities to sustain and develop NDU's digital transformation agenda in the domain names of digital services development and activation, platform innovation and most significantly information administration. The scope of the arrangement covers 4 strategic motifs of the Kingdom's digital vision which are: Digital Society, Digital Economic Climate, Digital Country and Digital Talent.

The MoU was announced by Mrs. Deemah Al-Yahya, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Digitization System, and Mr. Ghazi Atallah, CEO of NXN, on 10th of October 2017 at the Gitex Innovation Week in Dubai.

This new collaboration in between NDU and NXN is closely straightened with the basic themes of the Saudi Vision 2030 to develop "a vibrant society, a prospering economic climate, and an ambitious nation" and the purposes of the National Transformation Program 2020 to develop the best future for the Kingdom. It additionally comes as part of the Kingdom's strategic digital vision and is lined up to the required set for the recently created Open Information Committee to create an open information environment in the Kingdom.

Today the world is producing information at an unprecedented price with greater than 3 billion individuals attached to the internet, as compared to just 2.3 million people in 1990. For data to be thought about genuinely open, it must be published in bulk, machine-readable styles, and under an open permit, specifies Open Information Measure, a global action of how federal governments are publishing and using open data for responsibility, innovation and social effect. Its searchings for show that in 2015 only 10% of government data was published as open data, a small but substantial rise from 2013, when 7% of datasets were published in full open data format. Thirty-one countries have at least one open dataset, and simply over 50% of the datasets checked amongst the 11 top-ranked countries qualified as completely open.

Saudi Arabia has actually established out on a nationwide trip to create an open data community by supplying information and information services to the public, making it possible for seamless services, deeper understandings, and a vivid information economy driving innovation. Inning accordance with industry records, open and common information can help open "$ 3.2 trillion to $5.4 trillion in financial worth per year across key industries."

NXN will certainly work with NDU and the Open Data Committee hand-in-hand to create the open and common data governance structure that requires a Kingdom-wide classification framework, and a Policy Structure and Requirements Style. These include the complete collection of regulative instruments in addition to technological and process guidelines needed to support the initiative.

NXN has actually invested into developing a multi-million-dollar digital platform "DNX" to offer regional nations with a prepared to utilize platform for digital and smart transformation across the Middle East based upon open and common information. This is significant taking into consideration that Middle East North Africa (MENA) digital transformation market is predicted to broaden at a compound yearly development rate of 15.1% till 2020. Countries, consisting of the KSA, are progressively introducing e-Government and smart city efforts, with the objective to change themselves into digitally-enabled nations.

Mrs. Deemah Al-Yahya, Acting Ceo of the National Digitization Unit, said "Open up information holds big potential in attaining advancement objectives in a rapid changing world. The National Digitization System's choice to join hands with NXN shows our eager need to utilize the benefits offered by digitization to tap into open information to achieve the nation's strategic plans for the future. It likewise can be found in line with our goal to take advantage of global and regional partnerships to drive rapid and lasting nationwide digital transformation, and realize the Kingdom's national digital vision to climb to the leading edge of digital nations with a varied economic situation that improves the nation's talent and innovative spirit,"

" NDU has embraced an ambitious digital agenda to attain its objective of ending up being a digital leader by 2025. This contract is a solid attestation to this passion better enhancing NXN's tactical connection with NDU. It will bring conveniently deployable options for the Kingdom's Smart Cities and Districts with NXN's digital platform, making it possible for different stakeholders across the Kingdom to utilize these innovative solutions in their digital transformation trip. Providing simple and reliable solutions to our customers from our industry partnership initiatives is constantly our overarching objective, said Ghazi Atallah, CEO of NXN.

Atallah added, "Moreover, this partnership remains in line with our technique to construct a quick-to-market community that includes different industry players to make it possible for open, much better linked countries based upon open and shared data. This partnership permits us to profit from NXN's's regional existence and knowledge in dealing with the ever-growing cravings for digital services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, while creating and triggering NDU's digital initiatives and composing key picked Saudi digital sector blueprints.

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