Nokia and Zain Saudi Arabia have signed an MoU to work with the country's young talent to enable them to innovate and develop applications and services to serve local needs.
The creation of new services and products will allow Zain to reiterate its position as an innovative service provider in the region.
As part of the program, Nokia will provide a cloud computing and IT service platforms with an open Application Programming Interface (API) to allow Saudi Arabia's engineers to create new products for the domestic market. The local talent will gain a global perspective by collaborating with a leading technology firm of Nokia's repute.
Zain will play a paramount role in incubating the creativity of young Saudi generation. Along with Nokia, Zain shall nurture a multitude of local opportunities and evolve them from early conception phases till commercial implementation.
This initiative is an integral part of Zain's advanced data center strategy, and the virtualization and cloudification efforts to build tomorrow's networks now with young Saudi engineers and software developers.
Eng. Sultan Abdulaziz AlDeghaither, Chief Operations Officer, Zain Saudi Arabia
The nurturing of human capital is a key aspect of Vision 2030, and we believe that this collaboration with our strategic partner Nokia will allow us to provide more and better job opportunities for the Kingdom's youth.
Ali Al Jitawi, Head of the Zain Saudi Arabia, Nokia
While we have already deployed our Multi-access Edge Computing to improve the Hajj pilgrimage experience and are working with Zain to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) use cases toward digital transformation, this special program marks the beginning of a new chapter in Zain's digital transformation journey.
