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LEADERS' SUMMIT 2024

SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2024 Underscores the Necessity of
Digital Infrastructure & Human Centricity in Sustainable Digital Development

The SAMENA Telecommunications Council successfully hosted
the Leaders' Summit 2024 at Atlantis – The Palm, Dubai. Under the
theme "Evolving toward Integration, Intelligence & Sustainability in
Infrastructure", the Summit brought together industry leaders and
participants from geographies spanning as far as Asia Pacific to
North America, inclusive of South Asia, the Middle East, Africa,
Central Asia, Eastern Europe, among other regions.
In the presence of 350+ attendees – including over 20 regulatory
authorities and over 30 Telecom Operators (including stc, e&,
Zain, Omantel, Mobily, MTN, Airtel, Digicel, to name a few), the
ITU, MBRSC, GSOA, UN Broadband Commission, the United
Nations Development Program, technology providers such as
Huawei and Nokia, and financial institutions, including Citibank
– Leaders’ Summit 2024 reinforced the need to evolve, integrate,
and be sustainable, as underpinned by the Leaders’ Summit’s Leaders’ Summit 2024 provided multiple roundtables and panels
theme, created to aim at catalyzing digital prosperity across as platforms for dialogue on high-priority areas, such as 6 GHz
regions of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The high, diversified spectrum and new opportunities for the Industry and for both
level of participation in the SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit developing and developed nations; sustainable digital development
was instrumental in driving comprehensive digital strategies, needs of the SA-ME-NA region; broadband financing approaches
including on funding and financing of future digital infrastructure to connect the unconnected regions of the world; building cyber
development and securing cyberspace. resilience for the telecom business; and implications of Artificial

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