Challenges and opportunities abound in the Arabic digital content sector

Ninety percent of people in the Arab World want to read their internet in Arabic, say recent statistics from the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Sounds simple enough until you realize that only 3% of the internet is written in Arabic, despite the fact that it’s the fifth most widely used language worldwide, spoken by at least 293 million people.

Many entrepreneurs are working to change this. Recent months have witnessed a noticeable increase in digital publishing and a fierce competition in the Arabic e-books market.

To help accelerate this growth, Egypt’s TIEC (Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center) has announced an annual Start IT-DAC competition to develop and promote the Arabic digital content industry by encouraging entrepreneurs to build projects in this field. The competition was announced alongside an Arabic digital content workshop in early March.

Link:

Challenges and opportunities abound in the Arabic digital content sector