The first pillar:Enhancing and Adopting Artificial Intelligence in Economic and Development Sectors

This section focuses on supporting the use of artificial intelligence technologies across various sectors to improve service quality and achieve operational efficiency, including:

• Supporting large Omani factories and enhancing their production lines with artificial intelligence in line with the industrial strategy.
• Supporting small and medium Omani factories to adopt artificial intelligence technologies in compliance with the industrial strategy.
• Encouraging the use of artificial intelligence in government buildings for smart consumption of energy, water, and other services.
• Providing incentives for local cloud computing companies to offer artificial intelligence systems as a cloud service (AIaaS).
• Empowering and enhancing projects in economic and developmental sectors with artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Economics Initiative).
• Implementing artificial intelligence in essential services that directly interact with citizens, residents, and investors.

The second pillar:Localization of Artificial Intelligence Technologies

This axis focuses on the following areas:

• Building local capacities and competencies through encouraging partnerships between the public and private sectors.
• Developing the technical infrastructure.
• Promoting research and development in the field of artificial intelligence.

The Third pillar:Governance of Artificial Intelligence Applications with a Human-Centered Vision

This axis focuses on the following areas:

Encouraging the ethical, fair, and safe use of artificial intelligence applications by reviewing and updating laws and policies to stimulate the adoption of AI and advanced technologies, while managing ethical issues by establishing human-centered foundations, community privacy, and governance of data collection processes and the development of AI algorithms.