Within a few years, the Saudi authority for data and artificial intelligence "Sadaya" has managed to achieve a number of achievements in the fields of data and artificial intelligence, accompanied by initiatives and projects that have made the kingdom occupy the highest ranks in the global indicators in artificial intelligence, surpassing advanced countries in that field by obtaining the first rank globally in the pillar of the government strategy for the global artificial intelligence index for 2023, and the second globally in the community awareness of artificial intelligence according to the Stanford University International Artificial Intelligence Index 2023, and jumped in Riyadh to the 30th place globally and the third Arab in the IMD index of cities smart 2023, amid national ambitions Inexhaustible.

These efforts came after the Saudi leadership sensed the transformations that the world is going through as a result of the development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies, the impact of which became clear, especially after the emergence of artificial intelligence technologies, where it was directed to make the best use of this technical progress to achieve the goals of the kingdom's Vision 2030, culminating in a royal order stipulating the establishment of the Saudi authority for data and artificial intelligence "Sadaya" in 2019, and its board of Directors is chaired by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Prime Minister .

Within the framework of this trend, Sadaya has begun to work hard to enhance its role in the fields of data and artificial intelligence according to an ambitious strategic plan that meets the aspirations of the Saudi leadership.within four years, it has achieved qualitative leaps in these fields, accompanied by record numbers in digital initiatives provided to government sectors and individuals, including hosting 220 government data centers in the government cloud "dim", which provided 5 billion riyals of savings and revenue opportunities.

"Sadaya" has achieved financial savings of more than 50 billion riyals through the istishrafq decision support platform, as well as the number of active users in the tawakulna services application has reached more than 17.9 million, more than 240 electronic services are provided to them, not to mention more than 1.8 million digital identity verification requests daily through the nifaf platform, and has also achieved

279 million procedural operations through the shmoos platform to register the data of operations of customers dealing with private sector facilities, and provide a unified database on this for beneficiaries from government sectors.

In a record time, "Sadaya" received international certificates, including 4 certificates from the leading international organization ICMG for excellence in the structure of the technical infrastructure in the world in the fields of: Corporate structuring governance for its work on enhancing the value of work according to specific roles, responsibilities and procedures, ensuring the construction of technology components with high efficiency and compatible specifications, digital transformation for its work on building methodology, digital structural components and employing the latest technologies, in addition to digital structure governance for its work on organizational structure and institutional leadership capabilities, technical orientations and procedures related to digital structure, corporate excellence and customer-centric for its work on the capabilities of understanding the requirements, needs and expectations of the customer, and product and service design decisions centered on the customer experience.

Although the March of its beginnings faced an exceptional global circumstance represented by the corona pandemic, which cast a shadow on the peoples of the world and stopped the movement of life with it, but "Sadaya" mobilized all its forces with the help of its employees from the sons and daughters of the homeland, sensing the national situation that the country is going through as a result of this pandemic and provided innovative solutions that made the lifeline pulsate in all regions of the kingdom through the tawakulna application, then launched tawakulna services, which provides its services in seven languages and can be used in 77 countries in the world, and the tawakulna system received an award the United Nations Public Service 2022 on the category of institutional flexibility and innovative responses to the covid-19 pandemic, in a new confirmation of the kingdom's leadership Technically and digitally.

And "Sadaya" was not limited to this, but was held during the corona pandemic-remotely - The global summit for artificial intelligence in 2020 brought together decision-makers, experts and specialists from different countries of the world, including leading technology companies, investors and businessmen to discuss the dimensions of artificial intelligence in the service of humanity, and the success of this summit invited it to hold an attendance summit in 2022 with the participation of more than 200 international speakers and the presence of a group of policy makers, experts and specialists in artificial intelligence and achieve more than 50 thousand virtual viewers from more than 100 countries, and through the during 2020 with the highest level of security and reliability of virtual meetings.

Sadaya continued its successful career and worked on employing data technologies and artificial intelligence in achieving the kingdom's Vision 2030, as 66 of the 96 direct and indirect vision goals are related to them.Sadaya's role is to lead the national trend of data and artificial intelligence to contribute to elevating the kingdom to leadership within data-based economies and artificial intelligence, and intensified its efforts to enhance efforts to raise the kingdom's ranking in the global indicators on data and artificial intelligence.

Sedaya has a package of distinguished digital initiatives and projects, including: the Sada data set, the "Your Voice" project, the project to improve the quality of historical photos and films, the petroleum products monitoring project, the artificial intelligence platform, and the Ihsan platform, whose total donations amounted to more than 4.4 billion riyals, benefited more than 4.4 million beneficiaries.every year, Sedaya's efforts stand out during the Hajj season, where it establishes an advanced integrated technical system built with national artificial intelligence algorithms in partnership with the Ministry of Interior represented by the Public Security Directorate to serve the guests of mercy.

"Sedaya" provides the highest digital equipment related to data and artificial intelligence to ensure the comfort of pilgrims through advanced digital services such as: Suhor platform, Baseer platform, which was developed to enable the organization of crowds in the Grand Mosque and traffic management according to the capacity at each location, efforts included the construction of integrated technical services to support the Mecca Road Initiative, and reception halls for pilgrims through 15 air, sea and land ports in the Kingdom and in Mecca, roads leading to it and the holy sites.

As the National Reference for everything related to data and artificial intelligence, "Sadaya" has harnessed its efforts to support government sectors in various fields of development, including the field of energy. it has worked with the Ministry of energy on an agreement between their joint center (artificial intelligence center for energy) and Siemens Advanta international company to develop artificial intelligence solutions for the energy sector in the kingdom to increase energy efficiency and enhance the integration of renewable energy sources, which is an important step to develop technical solutions in the electricity and renewable energy sector.

One of the efforts exerted by "Sedaya" is to achieve the quality of life in the cities of the kingdom, where the center of Excellence for smart cities has been established, which includes multiple platforms, including: the national platform for smart cities and the sohrat platform, and what each of them includes live operational indicators to follow the security and vital sectors in Riyadh; to support operators in monitoring the level of services; in order to raise the level of quality of life, in addition to providing strategic indicators, advanced analytics and simulation models that support the construction of future plans and directions in cities.

Sedaya established with the Ministry of Health the center of Excellence for artificial intelligence for the health sector, which aims to develop the national strategy for data and artificial intelligence in the field of health.this partnership resulted in successful scientific experiments such as: the diabetic retinopathy screening project in cooperation with King Khalid eye specialist hospital. it also launched with the Ministry of Environment, Water and agriculture the first specialized center in the Kingdom and the Middle East for sustainability solutions and applications called "artificial intelligence center in Environment, Water and agriculture", and the Smart Planet program to find innovative solutions to help take advantage of the potential of untapped resources and sustain them through artificial intelligence technologies.

Sedaya has contributed to building national capacities through a number of projects and initiatives, including the "Sedaya" Academy, which aims to raise the level of national competencies in the fields of data and artificial intelligence and create human capabilities capable of leading the labor market through many promising programs and activities carried out in cooperation with a group of local, regional and international leading entities in the fields of data and artificial intelligence.

In this context, Sadaya established, in cooperation with KAUST University, a center of excellence in data science and artificial intelligence, as well as the Joint Research Center for artificial intelligence in cooperation with King Fahd University of Petroleum and minerals, to contribute to building a Saudi generation capable of dealing with these technologies professionally and supporting the growth of innovations in this modern knowledge field, being the national reference in everything related to data and artificial intelligence in the kingdom from organization, development and handling.

Sedaya, in cooperation with the General Authority for small and medium enterprises (monshaat) and Elm company, has launched the "Ruwwad package" initiative, which aims to support entrepreneurs from various sectors, companies and emerging institutions in the Kingdom; and facilitate the verification of individual customer data through electronic linking with the databases of the National Information Center.these efforts are in the interest of supporting small and medium enterprises by enhancing the use of enterprise identity in emerging sectors, and achieving the highest levels of security and reliability.

In order to prepare women in the world for the job market in the fields of artificial intelligence, Sedaya launched the "Elevate" program, in cooperation with Google Cloud, which is the first program of its kind in the world for training, and 1000 women representing 28 countries joined in its first phase to train them in the fields of data and artificial intelligence and enable women in the world to practice new jobs in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning in emerging markets and aims to train more than 25 thousand women over the next five years.

In the awareness aspect, "Sadaya" published a series of reports and studies in Arabic to educate the community about data, artificial intelligence and its various applications, and issued a report on generative artificial intelligence and large linguistic models to raise awareness of these technologies, which have become an important element in the world of advanced technologies in our time and contribute to a more sustainable and beneficial future for communities and individuals alike.