“One of the KSA’s key challenges is to ensure that its education system is geared toward supporting the growing private sector as a means of aiding diversification and reducing reliance on state-run industries,” the report states.“The scenarios demonstrate that ensuring that highly qualified Saudi workers with relevant skill sets are available in an innovative economy is crucial to the country, in reducing national unemployment and the economy’s current reliance on foreign labour."Saudi Arabia, like the rest of the Gulf, is heavily reliant on foreign workers - around 33% of the population is made up of expatriates - and has had mixed results with schemes the government has introduced to try and encourange Saudi nationals into the workforce. Unemployment among Saudis currently stands at around 11%.
Existing communications and computer architecture are increasingly being limited by the pedestrian speed of electrons moving through wires, and the future of high-speed communication and computing is in optics, experts say. The Holy Grail of results would be "wireless interconnecting," which operates at speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than current technology. The new discovery, made by researchers at Oregon State University, the University of Iowa and Philipps University in Germany, has identified a way in which nanoscale devices based on gallium arsenide can respond to strong terahertz pulses for an extremely short period, controlling the electrical signal in a semiconductor. The research builds on previous findings for which OSU holds an issued patent.
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