Regulator Aims To Bridge Arab Digital Gap

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Saudi Arabia's national regulator, the CITC, has announced the adoption of a long-term initiative to increase the size and scope of web content in the Middle East. The new initiative, entitled 'Developing Arab Digital Content', aims to encourage the production of more Arabic web pages, in order to encourage internet usage. Commenting on the plans, CITC spokesman Sultan al-Malek said that 'the initiative includes a study regarding content weakness…This will protect the language, spread Arab culture and increase [the number of] users who don't know