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Saudi Arabia

Your Investment Hub Sectors Outlook &

Investment Opportunities

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Sectors Overview

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Information, Communication and Technology

The opportunity

Transferring Saudi Arabia into globally competitive ICT hub with a modern technology economy and empowered information society

Investment Themes

Expand high-speed broadband coverage

Enable Country Digitization

Building Smart Cities

Modernize ICT infrastructure.

Establish ICT talents development academy

Developing Media City for digital media and gaming production, publishing, and distribution

Leading Digital Economy

Increase our investments in digital economy

Upgrade the ICT infrastructure to modern technology

Enhancing regulatory framework to support

investments in ICT

Building the eco-system to enable entrepreneurs and innovation in advanced technologies

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ICT Market Overview

Market Size Telecoms Games & e-commerce

$35 Billion 158%

Saudi Market Share in GCC Smart Phone Penetration

70% of GCC Spending 72%

CAGR growth for the last 6 years

8% CAGR

Mobile Broadband Penetration

88%

Packaged software growth rate

12.5% s/w growth

Internet Penetration

70%

ICT 2016 Spending Mobile Subscriptions

E-commerce penetration

51%

Games average spending – Highest / Capita

YouTube average time – Highest / Capita

E-commerce Market Size

$6.8 Billion

$30 /Person/Mon

3 Hrs/Peron/Day

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ICT

Cloud

Services E- Commerce

Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous

System

Investment Categories

Mobility Arabic Digital

Content

+IaaS

+PaaS

+SaaS

+MBaaS

+BPaaS

+SoC Cloud Service

+Audiovisual Production

+Digital Marketing

+E-Books

+E-Learning

+Contents Recognition

+E-commerce as a platform

+E-commerce as a service

+E-Commerce for Hajj and Umrah

+Industrial Internet & IoT

+Smart Cities, Airport, & Seaport

+Intelligent Tourism Management

+Arabic Cognitive

+Mobile App’s Development

+Gaming & Entertainment

+Innovation lab for Mobility

+Cloud Development Platform

Support Centers, Competency Centers, and ICT Academy