Over 400 officials and senior executives from government departments and private companies are due to convene at a conference next month in Dubai to promote the new economy to the Arab world and discuss ways of tackling with issues surrounding the 'digital divide' - an increasing problem of IT knowledge deficiency between industrialised and developing countries.
This is the second time Dubai has hosted the Gulf E-Business International Conference, which is organised by the Federation of GCC Chambers, the Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) and the Gulf Organisation for Industrial Consulting. The three day conference will commence on 16 April and will present key speakers from America, Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East who will address the importance of e-business in the Arab world and the challenge of bridging the digital divide.
Mohammed Abdullah Al Mulla, secretary-general of the GCC Chambers, said the world is experiencing a digital revolution in which the Arab world can not afford to be left behind. He said: 'Until [the revolution] developing countries were talking about an industrial gap. Today they are talking about a digital divide. The challenge we face is what can this region do to develop a social and business culture that is cohesive with the information age we are living in today.'
In a press release, Rahman Ghanem Al Mutaiwee, Director General of the DCCI, said: 'We know that the path is long and tedious and needs big decisions proportional with the big changes. We see this conference as a step in this direction towards a new era of dealing with the economic changes in the Gulf countries that will surely have significant implications. The advantages and disadvantages of these implications will emerge in the light of our understanding of these changes and our flexibility in reacting to them in the frame of a unified vision of the Gulf countries.'
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