CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF BIG DATA AND CLOUD COMPUTING IN ACHIEVING KSA’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Published 31 December 2020 •  vol 13  •  no 2  • 


Authors:

 

Gasim Othman Alandjani, Computer Science and Engineering Department. Yanbu University College, Yanbu Industrial City, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Syed Hyder Abbas Musavi, Department of Electronic Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, SZAB Campus Khairpur Mir’s, Sindh, Pakistan

Abstract:

 

The Big Data and Cloud Computing is considered as one of the researching areas and leveraging technologies provided in United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 2030 agenda for global sustainable development. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is set to fulfill regulatory obligations towards sustainability via 2030 Vision together with the National Transformation Program 2020 objectives. In this paper, the prospects with regards to studying and applying Big Data and Cloud computing in developing countries like KSA is presented. The research is focused on challenges and opportunities of data science, large volumes of data storage on clouds and its computing issues in KSA as well as need to analyze profitable projects for achieving sustainable development goals by 2030 in developing countries is presented. Furthermore, important factors considered as technical challenges to the socio-economic development and environmental differences of KSA are also reviewed.

Keywords:

 

Big Data, Cloud Computing, Sustainable Development Goals, KSA

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Citations:

 

APA:
Alandjani, G. O., & Musavi, S. H. A. (2020). Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data and Cloud Computing in Achieving KSA’s Sustainable Development Goals. International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), ISSN: 2005-4262 (Print); 2207-6379 (Online), NADIA, 13(2), 89-98. doi: 10.33832/ijgdc.2020.13.2.07.

MLA:
Alandjani, Gasim Othman, et al. “Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data and Cloud Computing in Achieving KSA’s Sustainable Development Goals.” International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), ISSN: 2005-4262 (Print); 2207-6379 (Online), NADIA, vol. 13, no. 2, 2020, pp. 89-98. IJGDC, http://article.nadiapub.com/IJGDC/vol13_no2/7.html.

IEEE:
[1] G. O. Alandjani, and S. H. A. Musavi, "Challenges and Opportunities of Big Data and Cloud Computing in Achieving KSA’s Sustainable Development Goals." International Journal of Grid and Distributed Computing (IJGDC), ISSN: 2005-4262 (Print); 2207-6379 (Online), NADIA, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 89-98, December 2020.