Building the foundations of an intelligent economy

Fayez Abu Awad, Policy Director MENA at GSMA , discusses how AI, advanced connectivity and strategic digital infrastructure investments can accelerate economic transformation across Qatar and the wider Middle East. What role do you expect AI to play in accelerating Qatar’s and the wider region’s shift towards intelligent economies over the next five years? AI will be one of the defining forces shaping the region’s economies over the next five years but its significance should not be measured