Eng. Bassam Albassam

Deputy Minister of Telecom and Digital Infrastructure

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia

Eng. Bassam Albassam, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Digital Infrastructure, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in Saudi Arabia, remarked that COVID-19 has devastated national economies, which revealed the fragility of global supply chains. Since ICT is the key of kick starting recovery, it’s quite critical to give full play to ICT infrastructure. Those with more developed digital infrastructure are better able to respond to the pandemic, set out a road of economic recoverybuild resilience for the future. He also suggested that policymakers need to be more future-looking,manage to formulate more core-based technological capabilities.