Falling on the 29th of October every year, “UAE Codes” day celebrates and honours coders and programming professionals in advancing the nation’s vision for accelerating the growth and transformation of the digital economy.
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UAE Digital Economy Strategy
The UAE Cabinet approved a new Digital Economy Strategy.
Our goal is for this sector to contribute 20 per cent of our gross non-oil national economy in the coming years. And we have formed a Digital Economy Council headed by Minister of Artificial Intelligence Omar Al Olama.
11.7%
Digital Economy contribution to UAE's non-oil GDP by 2031
The strategy aims to double the contribution of the digital economy to the UAE's non-oil GDP from 11.7 per cent to over 20 per cent within the next 10 years.
Coming in 2022
PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.
100
Coders
per day
Aims to attract 3,000 coders every month and
100,000 coders in 12 months to empower UAE's digital workforce
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Digital companies
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Internship
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Coding challenges
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Coding sectors
in universities
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Local Hackathon
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Coding ranking
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Humanitarian
open-source
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Global Hackathon
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Dedicated
physical space
in Emirates Towers
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Networking
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