Comprehensive coverage and updates on المواهب التقنية across the MENA tech ecosystem.
A $6m bridge led by Impact46, four years after a $10m growth round led by somebody else. What a bridge is for, and why HR software is a good place to attach financial services.
The UAE launched MBZ-SAT and has a robot due at the Moon's far side in 2026. Saudi Arabia started later and is building through partnership. Both routes are well established.
IT outsourcing now accounts for about 40.3% of Moroccan offshoring export revenue, having overtaken contact centres. The renewed national strategy targets 130,000 additional direct jobs by 2030.
Infrastructure is a procurement problem and adoption is a capability problem. The two run on different clocks, and the region is well ahead on the first.
Startup Genome's 2026 report names them as the region's largest cities in its global rankings — Cairo on scale, Casablanca on position.
Digital readiness scores across the GCC cluster in the forties out of a hundred. That is a workforce measurement, and it moves on a longer timetable than infrastructure does.
Seven in ten technical IT roles in Oman are held by Omanis — one of the harder numbers in Gulf workforce policy to move.
Oman climbed 16 places in the 2026 International Digital Competitiveness Assessment, scoring 47 out of 100 and entering the top 25 for fastest digital progress.