00:00You'll be surprised how tech savvy and tech native the Saudi population is 70% of the Saudi population are below the age of 35 and the majority of them are as comfortable with digital technologies as any other country in the world.
00:20In terms of policy and regulation, when Vision 2030 was launched by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, we identified technology as the key enabler, AI included, and started building the policy, the regulation, the platforms within the country, the data centers for the sovereign data sovereignty that was key for portions of the data.
00:49But in addition to data privacy, we had an open data.
00:53We talked about diffusion and access to compute, but access to data to achieve the same purpose of research, drug discovery, productivity improvement, having a policy also of open access to data was a pillar that was launched before COVID.
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