🏛 Government & Public Sector

Government is becoming an AI early adopter, not laggard. UAE's National AI Strategy 2031, Saudi Arabia's NEOM, Egypt's Digital Egypt program — all explicitly pushing AI adoption across public services. Practical wins: AI citizen-service chatbots in Arabic, document processing automation (vehicle registration, visas, business licenses), and predictive maintenance on public infrastructure. The constraint is data sovereignty — most governments require AI workloads run inside national borders, which favours regional vendors over US hyperscalers. Big wedge for MENA tech firms.