The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum, announced on Saturday the launch of a national program to train programmers, in partnership with major international companies, with the aim of training tens of thousands of programmers and establishing hundreds of digital companies in the coming years.
The sheikh revealed in a Twitter tweet that the program will be in collaboration with a number of large companies, including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, "Cisco", "IBM", "LinkedIn" and Facebook.
The ruler of Dubai stressed that the program was intended to "train and attract 100,000 programmers and establish a thousand large digital companies within 5 years."
He added that his government wanted to "increase the investment directed at start-ups from 1.5 billion to 4 billion dirhams."