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Artificial Intelligence
Explore Opportunities in Oman’s Growing Tech and Innovation Ecosystem
Following the Royal Directives of His Majesty the Sultan in November 2023, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology launched the National Program for Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies, evolving from the 2022 Executive AI Program to be more comprehensive in addressing economic and social aspects, and aligned with global advancements, especially in generative AI. The program is part of the National Digital Economy Program, which aims to increase the digital economy’s contribution from 2% in 2021 to 10% by 2040 and improve Oman’s global ranking in digital economy and AI readiness indicators.
Vision: To build a competitive advantage for the Sultanate in Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Digital Technologies.
Objectives :
- Strengthen partnerships among public and private sectors, academia, entrepreneurs, and civil society.
- Promote AI adoption in developmental sectors (education, healthcare, security, social services).
- Support economic diversification by integrating smart technologies into targeted productive sectors.
- Localize industries producing AI components through engagement of private sector and startups.
- Update education and research to meet AI technical requirements.
- Develop flexible regulations that enable adoption of advanced technologies.
- Establish benchmarks and indicators to measure progress compared to regional and global peers.
Promoting and Adopting AI in Economic and Development Sectors
- Support large, small, and medium Omani factories in adopting AI in line with the industrial strategy.
- Encourage smart consumption of energy and water in government buildings.
- Provide incentives for local cloud computing companies to offer AIaaS.
- Empower economic and development projects with AI.
- Apply AI in essential services for citizens, residents, and investors.
Localizing AI Technologies
- Build local capacities through public-private partnerships.
- Develop the technical infrastructure.
- Enhance research and development in AI.
Human-Centric AI Governance
- Promote ethical, fair, and safe use of AI applications.
- Review and update laws and policies to support responsible adoption.
- Establish foundations that protect societal privacy and govern data collection and algorithm development.
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Recognition of Authorized Vehicles for Entry into Food Security Warehouses
Start Date: 2022-10-01
End Date: 2025-08-17
Digitization of Documents and Maps for Land Transport
Start Date: 2022-01-01
End Date: 2025-08-17
Generative AI-based Chatbot at the National Center for Statistics and Information (NCSI).
Start Date: 2022-10-01
End Date: 2025-11-20
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It is a comprehensive national framework approved by the Cabinet on 19 September 2024, aimed at promoting and adopting artificial intelligence across economic and developmental sectors, localizing its technologies, and governing its applications with a human-centered vision, in line with the objectives of Oman Vision 2040.
- Stimulate the use of artificial intelligence to improve the quality of government services.
- Support targeted productive sectors for economic diversification.
- Build national capacities and competencies and link them to the labor market.
- Localize industries and core components of artificial intelligence.
- Promoting and adopting artificial intelligence in economic and developmental sectors.
- Localizing artificial intelligence technologies.
- Governing the applications of artificial intelligence and advanced digital technologies with a human-centered vision.
- Organized the “Engineer It with AI” competition and launched 8 new applications.
- Oman advanced 5 ranks in the Government AI Readiness Index.
- Implemented innovative projects such as Oman GPT and Oman AI Studio.
- Developed the National Open Data Portal.
Education, healthcare, defense and security, social care, tourism, transport and logistics, oil and gas, manufacturing, fisheries, mining, and renewable energy.
- Oman GPT: A large Omani language model.
- Oman AI Studio: A platform to accelerate innovation and localize applications.
- “AI Economies” Initiative.
- Pilot projects with other government entities.
By organizing specialized training workshops for public and private sector employees, supporting research and academic initiatives such as the UNESCO Chair for AI Ethics, and engaging universities and entrepreneurs in project implementation.
By providing open data for researchers and developers, and supporting innovative projects through local and international partnerships.
- Participate in initiatives and competitions organized by the ministry.
- Utilize the National Open Data Portal.
- Apply for support programs for AI startups.
- Collaborate with the ministry on research or applied projects
