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Advances in technology have brought about countless changes in the way we interact with the world. In the communication industry, social media has become a ubiquitous platform for sharing everything from dissent to the coolest gigs in town. Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming industries and manufacturing like never before. However, on the flip side, advanced technologies such as AI are being manipulated by perpetrators to create hyper-realistic images and voices of people that could easily convince the unaware audience to react to their intended provocations; spotting such videos/audios is becoming extremely hard as the world of the deep fakes gets murkier.

The 16th Edition of the Telecom Review Summit was a resounding success, generatıng enthusiastic reactions from both participating leaders and companies in the ICT industry, with praise about the event flooding social media channels.

The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) announced that every company or establishment registered in the UAE has automatically become part of the Kashif initiative, which means showing the name and number of the calling party to the call recipient. This enables the call recipient to recognize the calling party and allows them to decide whether or not to respond. TDRA has launched this initiative gradually, starting from mid-2021, in cooperation with the service providers, as part of enhancing customer satisfaction and happiness with telecommunications services in the UAE, and it is expected to have an impact in the future by reducing unwanted calls.

Awarded in December 2010 to Qatar, this year’s FIFA World Cup is the first to take place in the Middle East and the first to be supported by commercial 5G networks.

A data center can provide stable and reliable operating environments with advanced computing, storage and information capabilities. By 2023, the global data center industry is expected to grow further, be more dynamic and deliver optimal efficiency and resiliency.

Zain KSA won four awards at the annual Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit, which honors ICT leaders for their pioneering achievements. Zain KSA won awards for “Best Middle Eastern 5G Standalone Network”, “Best Middle Eastern Cloud Provider”, “Best Middle Eastern CSR Initiative”, and “Middle East CTO Merit Leader of the Year” during the summit’s 16th edition held in Dubai on December 7 and 8 2022.

According to the results of the 2022 State of Open Source Software survey, when asked about organizational usage and adoption of open-source software within the past year, over 77% of respondents indicated that their organizations had increased such usage.

As modern enterprises embrace innovation and digital transformation, higher connectivity and data processing capabilities are the prerequisites for friction-free operations. The combination of emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and cloud computing is set to change business operation models dynamically. Strategizing along those lines, leading cloud services provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched two cloud regions in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia and the UAE — as the two countries’ appetite for technology adoption has been garnering global attention.

“Digital health” is a concept that combines technology and healthcare. It includes varieties of technology that are implemented in the health field, such as software, applications, hardware, services and more.

A learning mechanism on an individual, community or organizational level, digital adoption is the process of utilizing technology and successfully carrying out digital processes to usher in the innovation era.