In the Middle East, cyber sovereignty hampers economic diversification
January 6, 2021 Share
Rapid and unprecedented transformation in the Middle East, whether political, social, or technological, is forcing governments to reckon with enormous changes. Many governments are responding by attempting to pursue two contradictory paths forward cyber sovereignty and digital transformation and they might end up not achieving either.
Since its start a decade ago, the Arab Spring has changed the Middle East s geopolitics and tech landscape. Regional governments were not ready to deal with the budding, tech-savvy millennials in the streets of Cairo, Benghazi, and Sana a. The Twitter- and Facebook-empowered generation ended the multi-decade-long reigns of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, and Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh. The removal of these long-serving autocrats sent shockwaves across the region and made its capitals much more attentive to technology s influen
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Turkey reveals its three-year cybersecurity plan
30 Dec 2020
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The country hopes to defend its citizens from cyberattacks through a set of new measures.
As Turkey has faced 325,000 cyberattacks in the last three years, Ankara rolled out a new national cybersecurity plan on Tuesday.
Signed by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the plan underlined the role of information technology in sustainable development and also raised a caution about the risks that come with it.
The action plan stated that cyber threats may negatively affect all sectors including communications, transport, energy, banking, finance and health. Therefore, it added, measures were accelerated to tackle the increasing threats in cyberspace.
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