Apple to build first Apple Developer Academy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Apple has picked Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as the location for its first Apple Developer Academy in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Credit: U.S. Department of State
According to the Saudi Gazette, the Apple Developer Academy will be dedicated to providing tools and training for aspiring female programmers, developers, and designer so that they can establish startups and create jobs in iOS app development.
Additionally, the move could also bolster support of women's empowerment and other social reforms under Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 project.
The Apple academy will partner with the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) via the Tuwaiq Academy and Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University.
"This qualitative move is an investment in the digital minds and skills of our girls in their journey of building the innovative future of the nation and the transformation towards an economy based on innovation and digital transformation," said Abdullah Al-Swaha, the Saudi Arabia's minister of Communications and Information Technology.
Faisal Al-Khamisi, chair of the Board of Directors for SAFCSP and the Tuwaiq Academy, also thanked Apple for choosing Riyadh.
"In our partnership with Apple, we will work together and strive to create an economic ecosystem for business to instill skills that enhance innovation and technology, and ensure a sustainable and prosperous future for our local community and the societies of the world that will undoubtedly benefit from the technical cadres that will receive education and training at the Apple Academy," he added.
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Credit: U.S. Department of State
According to the Saudi Gazette, the Apple Developer Academy will be dedicated to providing tools and training for aspiring female programmers, developers, and designer so that they can establish startups and create jobs in iOS app development.
Additionally, the move could also bolster support of women's empowerment and other social reforms under Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 project.
The Apple academy will partner with the Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming and Drones (SAFCSP) via the Tuwaiq Academy and Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University.
"This qualitative move is an investment in the digital minds and skills of our girls in their journey of building the innovative future of the nation and the transformation towards an economy based on innovation and digital transformation," said Abdullah Al-Swaha, the Saudi Arabia's minister of Communications and Information Technology.
Faisal Al-Khamisi, chair of the Board of Directors for SAFCSP and the Tuwaiq Academy, also thanked Apple for choosing Riyadh.
"In our partnership with Apple, we will work together and strive to create an economic ecosystem for business to instill skills that enhance innovation and technology, and ensure a sustainable and prosperous future for our local community and the societies of the world that will undoubtedly benefit from the technical cadres that will receive education and training at the Apple Academy," he added.
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Yet on the other hand he doesn't protest the "voting laws" in Saudi Arabia but instead opens up businesses there where gay people get "fines, public whipping, beatings, vigilante attacks, chemical castrations, prison time up to life, death penalty and torture." (wikipedia)
Let this post prove that I'm not always on Apple's side. I'm on the side of human rights, which is an area where Apple does't shine very much.
Or Apple could actively promote the skills of young Saudi women and enable them to gain some semblance of financial independence from their male dominated households. Seems like a win to me.
I would hope and expect physical security to be taken very seriously at venue entrances.
Even I disagree with the blatant sexism but at least it’s something good for someone. Apple isn’t obligated to do anything at all since it isn’t a charity.
Apple is a US company, not an international police. Do you want Samsung or Huawei for example talk about human rights in the USA?
this is not true
women don’t need a male from her family to do any thing She could do anything on her own
banks doesn’t have separate branches for men and women. Business doesn’t have “family hours” and women could drive normally without her father or husband go to court. There are no places that are “off limits” to women and women could talk to men without having another man from her family
Your information about Saudi Arabia is wrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_segregation_in_Saudi_Arabia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia
Saudi Arabia has changed so much and everything on the internet is either not true or old
there isn’t gender segregation any more in almost everything
And if you didn’t know The Saudi ambassador in the us is a women