First made-in-Oman laptop launched

One of the main pillars of Omantel’s strategy is to invest in young talent, empowering them to unlock their potential by adopting their ideas and activities

TALAL AL MAAMARI

“The ministry is also working on plans to promote free and open source software technologies by providing advanced training for young people in these technologies to enable them to produce programmes and solutions to benefit the local market, as well as push them to expand to external markets,” Shidhani added.

On the occasion, Talal bin Saeed al Maamari, CEO of Omantel, which supported Al Onsor in its laptop project, said, “One of the main pillars of Omantel’s strategy is to invest in young talent, empowering them to unlock their potential by adopting their ideas and activities, and utilise the company’s long experience to maintain and sustain youth ideas and projects. We have supported a number of initiatives that we are proud of.”

He added, “Today we are witnessing a unique case that must be supported and encouraged, one that we should stand by in the local market as a competitive national product of high quality. This device must be our first choice as individuals and institutions. The specialists and the technical companies backing Al Onsor have proved that the device is of high reliable quality.”