The Sultanate of Oman ranked fifth in the Arab world in the government readiness index for artificial intelligence for the year 2020, issued by the consultancy firm Oxford Insights, while it ranked 48 globally in this year's index, with an average of 52 points (out of 100 points) compared to the 59th position in 2019.
In the value of the sub-indices for the year 2020, the Sultanate scored a high index of data availability, reaching 96.4, 73.58 in the infrastructure index, 64 in the digital capacity index, 62.3 in the governance and ethics index, 45.5 in the human capital index, and 44. 2 in the Innovation Capacity Index.
According to a report issued by the Arab Monetary Fund, the Sultanate has launched a set of initiatives to promote the concept of industrial innovation and adopt new technologies, most notably the "Government Innovation Initiative" which was launched by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology with the aim of stimulating creativity and innovation in the government sector and allowing the opportunity to compete in presenting realistic proposals for the development of government projects and raising their efficiency by finding creative solutions to the challenges they face in the field of services, processes and procedures.
Through the initiative, the Sultanate aims to support innovation and creativity in government agencies to present effective proposals that contribute to finding smart solutions to develop government performance and increase its efficiency in the available fields, by using unconventional patterns and employing emerging modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, Blockchain, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and virtual reality applications, and other steps that are considered a quantum leap that supports advanced government performance.
Source (Oman Daily Newspaper, Edited)
