Working with the BSV blockchain association, the Saudi Digital Academy will collaborate to provide learning and development resources for a variety of audiences, including government agencies.
The Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh is establishing a blockchain academy to educate its talent in emerging technologies and advance the kingdom’s digital transformation and Saudi Vision 2030.
The Saudi Digital Academy (SDA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Swiss-based BSV blockchain industry association. It is reportedly the first full-scale blockchain academy in the Middle East region.
Digital capabilities
The SDA is a key national initiative by Saudi’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), which aims to develop both the human capital and digital capabilities for the future and prepare its young people for careers in the communications and IT sector.
Through the new blockchain academy in Riyadh, the BSV association and SDA will collaborate to provide blockchain learning and development resources for a variety of audiences, including developers, students, start-up entrepreneurs, business executives and government agency representatives.
The academy will focus on the BSV blockchain, an enterprise-grade network that can support government-scale and business data applications with high volumes of transactions at minimal cost.
The BSV Blockchain Academy is the latest in a series of sector-specific educational programmes launched by the SDA.
“Because the Fourth Industrial Revolution involves many emerging technologies, the SDA seeks to attract multiple digital academies in order to provide training across all fields that will be vital to Saudi Arabia’s digital transformation,” said Faris AlSaqabi, deputy minister for future jobs and capabilities, MCIT.
“We continually look to add new fields of learning. Given the high interest in blockchain technology, we are proud to work with BSV’s team to bring world-class blockchain training to Saudi Arabia in this landmark initiative for the Middle East.”
The BSV blockchain’s association and SDA announced their educational partnership during a signing ceremony on the final day of the Leap 2022 global technology conference in Riyadh which took place last week.
“This initiative will teach students, developers, business executives and government representatives across Saudi Arabia the blockchain knowledge necessary to navigate the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” said Mohammed Alsuhaim, CEO of the Saudi Digital Academy.
“The BSV team shares our vision for building true blockchain utility at big scale to power data for a digital Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and we anticipate this is the first step in other areas of collaboration with the BSV Blockchain Association.”
The BSV blockchain enable smart contracts, tokenisation, IoT device management, computation and more. As a public ledger, it also enables transparency, auditability and more transparency for governments, citizens and enterprises.
Applications running on BSV span a range of industry sectors, including government services, data integrity, identity management, supply chain, accounting, RegTech, distributed network intelligence, financial services, online games, and metaverse/augmented and virtual reality.
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Quelle/Source: Smart Cities World, 07.02.2022
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