e& Group CEO Hatem Dowidar underscored the urgency of bridging the digital divide. With 2.5 billion individuals on the earth remaining disconnected, he emphasised that connectivity is a elementary driver of progress, calling for collective motion to speed up international entry.
His remarks got here throughout a keynote tackle in the course of the plenary session on the World Governments Summit 2025 (WGS), held in Dubai from eleventh to thirteenth February. e&, as the worldwide know-how group and Know-how Companion of the WGS 2025, is actively collaborating below the summit’s theme, “Shaping Future Governments.”
The corporate contributes to the dialogue on how know-how can reshape authorities operations and citizen engagement, driving smarter, extra related governance.
Dowidar joined Vodafone CEO Margherita Della Valle and Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani within the panel dialogue “Can We Innovate Our Approach to a Extra Linked World?” He emphasised that what’s good for enterprise can be good for society—connecting individuals unlocks alternatives throughout fintech, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and past, driving each financial development and societal advantages.
He highlighted the necessity for regulatory frameworks that foster innovation and collaboration, guaranteeing AI and connectivity work for everybody. Addressing the AI divide, Dowidar identified that whereas solely 20 % of the worldwide inhabitants speaks English, 70 % of the educational of AI in the present day is predicated on English.
He additionally underscored the significance of sovereign AI, emphasising the necessity for safe cross-border knowledge flows.
As key contributors within the WGS 2025, e &’s management will have interaction in various periods this week, sharing their experience throughout essential dialogues on innovation, digital transformation, and inclusion.
Alongside Hatem Dowidar, senior executives from throughout e &’s portfolio will take part in hearth chats, panel discussions, roundtables, and moderator capacities.
Masood M. Sharif Mahmood, CEO of e& UAE, will be a part of a fireplace chat on “What Does the Nice Digital Leap Must Turn into a Actuality?” highlighting the transformative journey within the digital age. Khalid Murshed, CEO of e& enterprise, will discover the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.
Khalifa AlShamsi, CEO of e& life and e& worldwide, will average and interact in roundtable discussions, together with one targeted on “The Way forward for Investments,” exploring the evolving panorama of investments in know-how and governance.
Dena Almansoori, Group Chief AI and Knowledge Officer, will focus on how AI can unlock its projected worth, emphasising the essential function of Chief AI Officers in driving this transformation. Ali Al Mansoori, Group Chief Folks Officer, will contribute insights on human-centric methods in constructing future-ready organisations.
e& participation at this summit goals to galvanise a world effort that embraces digital transformation for the higher good, demonstrating that, because the evolving governance fashions are converging, collaboration is a elementary technique to sort out the world’s most urgent interconnected challenges, from digital divides to financial volatility, and local weather challenges.
Championing the function of know-how, connectivity, and digital intelligence, e& management will convey actionable perception to focus on how AI, digital finance, clever infrastructure, and connectivity can form governance fashions of tomorrow, drive financial resilience, and allow human-centric digital progress by embracing clever applied sciences for the higher good.
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