Saudi Arabia

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: 12 months of free AI-powered creative tools

Expands access to advanced data and AI skills that are increasingly required for high-value employment and digital-economy participation.

Activities and approach: Training in data, artificial intelligence and advanced analytics; connection to high-value employment and business opportunities

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Policies supporting easy and affordable internet access

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Digital literacy and capability-building for priority groups

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Digital consultations and participation in service/policy design

High-speed wireless broadband rollout aimed to increase remote-household broadband coverage and extend service beyond commercially attractive areas.

Activities and approach: High-speed wireless broadband; infrastructure investment incentives

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Shared infrastructure, applications and data exchange across government

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Data exchange and integration among entities

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Reusable shared applications reducing duplicate development

Builds practical AI capability across educators, higher education, entrepreneurs, and general learners, reducing skills-based exclusion from an AI-enabled economy.

Activities and approach: AI academy; educator and faculty training; entrepreneur training; online learning; practical AI application

Addresses the AI skills divide by providing large-scale training and credentialing intended to enable broader participation in an AI-enabled economy.

Activities and approach: AI skills training; professional certification; digital-economy workforce preparation

demonstrating a high-altitude wireless architecture capable of covering very large remote areas where terrestrial infrastructure is difficult or uneconomic

Activities and approach: 5G connectivity trial using High-Altitude Platform Systems and large-area remote coverage demonstration

testing integration between non-terrestrial and terrestrial networks to expand coverage and create a more resilient connectivity architecture

Activities and approach: Integration and testing of non-terrestrial networks with terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure

Expands access to advanced digital-skills development and innovation environments, reducing capability gaps in emerging technologies and digital-safety knowledge.

Activities and approach: Center of excellence; innovation center; digital sustainability initiative; programs in digital marketing, AR, spatial computing and digital safety

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: National measurement of internet access and usage

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Measure AI adoption as meaningful digital use

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Quality measurement of national mobile internet performance

Expands access to advanced generative AI tools at national scale so that university students can build AI literacy and skills rather than being separated by unequal access to emerging technologies.

Activities and approach: Provide advanced Gemini AI access to university students; support educational use, skills development, and future-job readiness

Reduces digital-skills gaps by providing blended learning and practical training connected to technology-intensive sectors and labor-market needs.

Activities and approach: Digital learning; in-person training; future-sector capability development

Provides voice and broadband Internet to remote governorates and villages outside normal commercial coverage obligations.

Activities and approach: Mobile voice and broadband; public subsidy

Provides broadband Internet and voice services under universal-service obligations in low-density regions.

Activities and approach: Mobile broadband; public subsidy

Extends broadband and voice services to remote communities under a separately awarded universal-service contract.

Activities and approach: Mobile broadband; public subsidy

Three newly awarded universal-service projects delivered Internet and voice services to thousands of remote population clusters.

Activities and approach: Mobile broadband; universal-service funding