Vision
The vision for KSA IT research and innovation is:
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be recognized as an innovator in IT, with innovative companies, universities that conduct leading edge research and produce world class graduates; a national laboratory system that serves government, universities and industry; and effective linkages between all elements of the system. The Kingdom will be a regional leader across a broad range of IT areas and will be a world leader in areas of special importance to the Kingdom.
This vision focuses on the establishment of an effective innovation system in which research and invention need to lead to economic and social benefits for the Kingdom. To achieve this, it is essential to have strong and mutually beneficial linkages between universities, government, and industry.

Mission
The mission for the KSA IT research and innovation program is:
To enhance the Kingdom’s scientific and technological level in information technology and the application of information technology to the Kingdom’s economic and social needs through a coordinated program of research, development, localization, and transfer of technology.

Strategic Goals
The strategic goals of the program are:
•    To support an expanding and innovative KSA IT industry
•    To advance IT capabilities to meet critical needs in the Kingdom in areas such as computer networking and security
•    To develop innovative high quality IT applications to meet specialized needs in the Kingdom, such as for the oil and gas industry and Islamic applications
•    To adapt and localize IT applications for e-services and e-business
•    To contribute to the global open source software movement
•    To develop world class capabilities in language technologies, especially applied to serve the Arabic language
•    To improve scientific and supercomputing to expand the Kingdom’s capabilities in science and engineering through modeling, simulation and visualization.

Track

• Arabic Language Technologies
  • Speech AND (recognition OR synthesis)
  • Speaker AND (verification OR identification)
  • Speech corpus
  • Sign language
  • Braille
  •  Text AND (mining OR generation OR summarization OR analysis OR translation OR OCR)
• Open Source / Software Localization
  • software engineering AND (OSS OR Open Source)
  • Software localization
  • Business Models AND (OSS OR Open Source)
  • Certification AND (OSS OR Open Source)
  • e-government AND (OSS OR Open Source)
  • Security AND (OSS OR Open Source)
• Advanced Networking and High Performance Computing
  • High performance computing
  • Parallel computing
  • (Geologic OR Environmental) AND (modeling or simulation)
  • (petrochemical OR petroleum) AND (modeling or simulation)
  • Urban AND (modeling or simulation)
  • Advanced networking
  • Parallel programming
  • High-speed networking
  • Grid computing
• IT Security
  • Biometric authentication
  • Data security
  • Data mining security
  • Cryptology OR cryptography
  • Internet resiliency
  • Software testing and evaluation
  • e-government security
  • e-commerce security
• Islamic Applications of IT
  • Monitoring
  • Identification
  • Tracking
  • Counting
  • Simulation
  • Scheduling
  • Crowd management
  • Awareness/education
  • Help/guidance
  • Data collection/processing
  • Data banks

Email:inf.npst@ksu.edu.sa
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