Tech in 2022: These are the biggest trends shaping the digital future of the Middle East
New levels of investment, digital adoption and deployment have further reshaped businesses and the consumer experience this year. These trends look set to endure into 2022 and beyond.
COVID-19 has helped to herald a new era of digitisation across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), transforming consumer behavior and investment in sectors such as e-commerce, education and FinTech.
This looks set to continue in 2022, although its impacts may vary.
In this new article for ZDNet, I explore developments from the past year — and look ahead to 2022 — in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), 5G mobile networks, continued record investment in MENA’s start-ups, as well as where CIOs are spending their IT budgets.
The story includes new and original insights from Dubai-based Carrington Malin, an entrepreneur, marketer and writer focused on emerging technologies, and the author of a weekly news digest of AI news from around the Middle East; the GSMA’s Head of the Middle East and Africa, Jawad Abbassi; Ramez El-Serafy, CEO of Flat6Labs and Dina El-Shenoufy, Flat6Labs’ CIO. It also features further commentary via Miriam Burt, managing vice president at Gartner and the firm’s GCC Research Lead and Jyoti Lalchandani, IDC’s group vice president and managing director for the META region.
