Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT)

<p>The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) is the government body responsible for the communications and information technology sector in Saudi Arabia. Its roots go back to 1926, when the Directorate of Telegraph, Post and Telephone was established during the reign of the Founding King, King Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud. In 1975 a royal decree established the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephone to oversee the postal and telecommunications sectors, and in 2003 it was renamed the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, reflecting the Kingdom's move toward an information society.</p><p>With the launch of Saudi Vision 2030 the sector entered a broad transformation that included launching 5G services in 2020, the Government Digital Transformation Policy, the first National Cloud Computing Policy and the expansion of fibre-optic coverage to more than 5.6 million homes. The digital economy has grown to SAR 522 billion, the ICT market reached SAR 190 billion in 2025, and ICT jobs exceeded 406,000.</p><p>The ministry supports the technology entrepreneurship ecosystem through the Center of Digital Entrepreneurship (CODE), which runs programmes for tech founders and startups. Venture capital investment in the Kingdom reached SAR 6.2 billion by the end of 2025, and the number of technology unicorns rose to eight.</p>