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SAMENA TRENDS

EYE ON THE REGION

Saudi Arabia is En Route to being the Most Technologica-

lly Advanced and Most Sustainable Country in the World

consumption and had to prove they were
able to continue its levels of service to
a raft of new customers. stc has been
working closely with the government to
ensure and support the shift of learning,
health services, and government services
to a primarily online format, through its
digital connectivity infrastructure. During
last year’s lockdown, for stc employees,
remote working was activated as soon as
the World Health Organisation announced
the epidemic and the percentage of the
stc workforce working from home reached
93%.

In KSA, stc is fast building economic
resilience through its larger enterprise
ecosystem that includes contractors,
suppliers, and knowledge, material, and
technology partners. The activation of a
Vision 2030 aims to create more e-health, other in-demand online services. variety of connected services is allowing
opportunities for young Saudi talent to While the COVID-19 pandemic caused its partners to flourish and generate
thrive in a bustling environment that havoc for so many businesses around additional economic value. Through a
will see the Kingdom use its digital the world, lockdown meant people were number of high-profile global partners, stc
transformation to become an economic spending more and more time at home has quickly established itself as a digital
powerhouse that is less reliant on oil causing a surge in demand and usage hub for the MENA region. Huawei, Ericsson,
and more so on its public service sectors of digital products and services. This Rakuten Mobile, and Intel have all recently
such as health, education, infrastructure, presented a huge opportunity for stc signed agreements to work with stc on a
recreation, and tourism. that suddenly saw a spike in online

stc Group has been has been demonstrating
visible impact through the implementation
of its sustainability framework and ground-
breaking digital technology currently being
rolled out across the nation. Examples of
these impacts include the company-wide
focus and achievements in measurable
reduction of resource consumption, direct
economic impact through increasing
stakeholder value, care for human capital,
and building long-term resilience through
risk mitigation and good governance.

The company is not only providing
customers with digital services with
super-fast network speeds, but also
helping its customers in reducing their
environmental impacts too, largely by
facilitating opportunities in online learning,
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