ODS is pleased to announce that Electric House joined our electronic marketplace Shamel via a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that has been inked between the two parties for the purpose of listing over 10,000 industrial and electrical parts of the leading company on Shamel’s platform, which shall contribute to boosting their products exposure online and promoting their e-commerce sales.
Madar participated as a golden partner at the prestigious Supply Chains and Logistics Services Conference, showcasing the highlights of our presence at this esteemed event, that capture mainly the competency of our dynamic team and the essence of our cutting-edge digital logistics solutions that aligns with the Kingdom’s vision for 2030. We extend our sincerest gratitude to all our visitors and partners for their invaluable contributions to the success of this event.
Nahdet Misr and Obeikan Forge Strategic Partnership to Transform the Educational Landscape in the Middle East and Africa
Cairo, September 11th 2023
Obeikan Group, a renowned conglomerate with expertise across various sectors in Saudi Arabia, and Nahdet Misr Group, Egypt’s leading provider of educational and capacity-building solutions, have forged a strategic partnership to revolutionize the educational landscape in the Middle East and Africa.
Solidified through the signing of a memorandum of understanding, this partnership is focused on driving educational development and fostering economic sustainability in the region.
By leveraging their combined strengths, both entities are fully committed to creating innovative and advanced educational opportunities that harness the transformative power of modern technology. This collaborative approach will cultivate an inspiring and dynamic learning environment, nurturing innovation and creativity among learners. The ultimate goal of this partnership is to empower Arab and African nations to effectively navigate the ever-evolving global technological landscape, enabling them to thrive in the digital era.
The scope of cooperation between Obeikan Group and Nahdet Misr Group encompasses the development of educational content and modern curricula with a primary focus on cultivating future skills among students. This collaborative effort draws upon the extensive expertise of both institutions, working in conjunction with the Ministries of Education in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
In addition to content development, this partnership takes a bold step towards driving digital transformation in education. By adopting accelerated measures and leveraging artificial intelligence techniques, learners will benefit from personalized and interactive learning experiences. This collaboration also seeks to nurture entrepreneurship and support EdTech startups, recognizing the significant size and growth of this crucial sector in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Together, they aim to unlock new opportunities and advance the education sector in the Arab and African regions
The collaboration between Obeikan Group and Nahdet Misr Group extends to providing effective solutions in technical education and vocational training. Recognizing the importance of bridging the skills gap, their joint programs aim to equip the workforce with the necessary skills aligned with the demands of the job market.
Moreover, both institutions will capitalize on their extensive capabilities in printing and producing diverse educational materials. With access to two of the largest and most advanced printing facilities in the region, they are well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of the educational landscape.
“The strategic partnership between Obeikan and Nahdet Misr signifies a crucial stride and an important milestone in transforming the educational landscape across the Middle East and Africa. By harnessing the distinctive capabilities and extensive expertise of both entities, we anticipate that the memorandum of understanding will yield innovative methodologies and impactful educational content, fostering a comprehensive learning experience that benefits all stakeholders. This collaboration empowers educational institutions to excel in their roles, thereby ensuring a brighter future for students.” stated Eng. Abdullah Obeikan, CEO of Obeikan Investment Group.
Dalia Ibrahim, CEO of Nahdet Misr Publishing House, further elaborated, stating, “Considering the educational challenges faced by countries in the region, the collaboration between Nahdet Misr and Obeikan presents an exceptional opportunity for exchanging experiences, knowledge, and venturing into new markets within the Arab and African regions. This strategic alliance empowers us to undertake extensive, high-quality educational projects in collaboration with ministries and educational authorities across diverse countries. Furthermore, it enables us to fulfill our mission of developing human capacity, fostering a brighter future for generations to come, and promoting sustainable development throughout the region.”
About Nahdet Misr Group:
Nahdet Misr Group is a prominent Egyptian learning organization that has been at the forefront of education and publishing in the MENA region since its inception in 1938. With a rich history spanning over eight decades, the group has established itself as a pioneer in the industry.
Operating through its eight subsidiaries, Nahdet Misr Group offers a comprehensive range of integrated services. These include curriculum development, professional development programs for educators, digital learning solutions, educational software development, vocational education and technical training programs, as well as publishing solutions.
In 2017, Nahdet Misr Group made a significant stride by launching EdVentures, the first Edtech corporate venture capital in the MENA region. EdVentures provides valuable support to startups operating in the education sector through its incubation, acceleration, and investment programs.
About Obeikan Investment Group
Obeikan Investment Group (OIG) was established in Riyadh in 1982 by Al Obeikan family, and embarked on a journey of growth over the decades to become a leading company in the fields of manufacturing, packaging, printing, binding, publishing, curriculum development, education, and other investments with a growing focus on digital transformation.
The education sector holds significant importance within the Obeikan Group, as it focuses on developing various aspects and embracing digital transformation and interactive education across all educational levels. Obeikan Education has been dedicated to enhancing curriculum content, teaching and learning approaches, and providing professional development opportunities for teachers. Additionally, the company has made significant strides in e-learning and the adoption of cutting-edge educational solutions.
Obeikan Education also offers best practices based on international standards, and localizes and disseminates international expertise to suit the cultural and religious context of Arab and Islamic communities, providing innovative curricula in the local language. In harmony with Obeikan’s digital transformation policy, Obeikan Education is spearheading the digitization of the educational process, with a focus on making the student and teacher the central pillars, leading to more efficient, effective, deep, unique, attractive, and interactive education. This is achieved through building integrated platforms and providing digital learning tools that support interactive learning, critical thinking, and multimedia.
Obeikan Digital Solutions and Infinite Middle East have joined forces to introduce pioneering cloud services aimed at optimizing the management and the archiving of medical images in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through a signed cooperation agreement. This agreement seeks to revolutionize the healthcare industry by offering cutting-edge digital health services to healthcare providers across various levels and specialties. In recent years, the demand for efficient and secure digital services for medical images has grown significantly. With this agreement, Obeikan Digital Solutions, and Infinite Middle East aim to address this need by providing state-of-the-art cloud-based solution. By leveraging this advanced digital intervention, healthcare service providers in the Kingdom will be empowered to streamline and accelerate their operations, reduce paperwork, and enhance the overall patient experience. Underpinned by wealth of expertise in digital transformation and driven by principles of sustainability, the two parties are equipped to collaborate in the provision of integrated cloud services that will ensure that medical images are securely saved and readily accessible, this will facilitate medical data sharing and collaboration between healthcare professionals, leading to better patient care and improved decision-making processes. Furthermore, these collaborative efforts will contribute to the advancement of the Kingdom’s digital transformation goals, propelling the healthcare sector into a more modern and efficient era. With the introduction of cloud services for managing and archiving medical images, Obeikan Digital Solutions and Infinite Middle East are spearheading innovation and paving the path for a brighter future in healthcare field.
About Obeikan Digital Solutions (ODS)
ODS Launched in 2017, Obeikan Digital Solutions (ODS) helps manufacturers and enterprises to achieve operational excellence with productivity-enhancing applications, and performance improvement consultancy. ODS grants its customers access to leading-edge, tried and tested digital technologies that add significant value to their operations. ODS is a subsidiary of Obeikan Investment Group (OIG) founded in 1982 with headquarters in Riyadh – Saudi. The company has strong foothold in manufacturing, leading provider of fully integrated packaging solutions in MENA region, with a growing focus on digital transformation providing B2B, B2C and B2G business and industrial solutions. Obeikan Digital Solutions operates with the goal of offering the best-in-class technologies to the business sector, supporting their digital transformation strategies. Today, Obeikan offers 20+ products in 3 key business areas, namely manufacturing, enterprises and supply chain. Obeikan Digital Solutions has created six different marketplace apps covering a broad expanse of strategic business functions within any organization: “Shamel”, “Madar”, “Saned”, “O3 Smart Manufacturing Platform”, “Hodhod” and “Saned Utilities”. Obeikan Digital Solutions strives to be the “Business Partner of Choice” in digital transformation; serving educational and industrial sectors as well as enterprises and human capital management (HCM). Banking on the conglomerate’s 40+ years of experience, ODS is exporting the decades-long know-how coupled with the cutting-edge digital solutions and the product of its R&D investments in order to support organizational digital transformation.
About Infinite Middle East
Infinite provides specialized digital solutions for managing and archiving medical images in various health specialties. Infinite was launched in 2002 in South Korea to provide its services locally and abroad in many countries around the world, with more than 6,300 clients distributed across various countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and North and South America. Infinite has achieved many international recognitions and awards in the field of digital healthcare systems.
The kingdom’s pursuits in reinforcing the mining sector that is envisioned to be the third pillar of the Saudi’s economy have been quite evident across the recent years. We have lately witnessed clear efforts undertaken by the Kingdom in providing all the required catalysts and unlocking the doors of thriving investment opportunities that aimed to promote the economic climate in general and accelerate the mining field in particular.
It is also worth mentioning that the great efforts of the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources in the mining affairs, especially the roles of His Excellency the Minister and His Excellency the Deputy Minister, had a major impact on placing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the map of the global mining industry. One of the most prominent steps was the launch of the Future Minerals Forum “FMF”, that had contributed, along with many other initiatives, in introducing the international investors and companies to the available opportunities and the attractive environment for investment in the Kingdom.
Speaking of the industrial conglomerate Obeikan Investment Group (OIG), the group has manifested notable initiatives in leveraging the offered potentials and activated its role as a leading company in the private sector to support the Kingdom’s current approach, one of which was stepping into a joint venture cooperation with the Australian company European Lithium.
This Saudi – Australian partnership started at the outset of 2023, with the aim of creating a powerhouse entity that contributes to achieving two main goals that go in parallel with the kingdom’s vision, the first one is processing the lithium hydroxide which aligns with the mining aspect and the second one is building an integrated lithium supply chain to support the local manufacturing of electric cars batteries which is consistent also with the Kingdom’s 2030 outlook for the production of 500,000 electric cars per year.
About Obeikan Investment Group
Obeikan is a leading industrial company operating in multiple fields including glass, paper and plastics with growing focus on harnessing the power of technology and digital transformation across all its operations. The group is one of the largest investment companies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and MENA and owns more than 20 factories and 25 companies.
About European Lithium
European Lithium is a mining exploration and development company which wholly owns the Wolfsberg Lithium Project located in Carinthia, 270 km south of Vienna, Austria.
The Company’s primary listing is on the Australia Securities Exchange (ASX: EUR) and it is also listed in Frankfurt (FRA: PF8) and USA (OTC-QB: EULIF).
The Wolfsberg Lithium Project is well located in Central Europe with access to established road and rail infrastructure to distribute lithium products to the major lithium consuming countries of Europe.
In the scope of accelerating the adoption of cutting edge-technologies across the innovative industrial projects, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and the Obeikan Investment Group (OIG) inked a memorandum of understanding, on the sidelines of the second edition of the International Technical Conference “LEAP23” organized by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and was at the forefront of Riyadh’s Exhibitions and Conferences.
On behalf of KACST, the signing of the MOM was represented by Dr. Khalid Bin Abdelrahman Al-Dukkan, the Supreme Vice President of KACST of the Innovation Sector, meanwhile OIG was represented by Eng. Abdullah Al Obeikan, the CEO of the Group, in the presence also of a number of officials from both parties.
The core of the strategic partnership between KACST and the Obeikan Group aims to invest in expertise and knowledge assets that contribute to accelerating the adoption of technologies across innovative industrial projects, support the hosting of emerging entrepreneurial companies and the R&D innovation activities of local and international companies and empower them with facilities and catalysts that will equip them to smoothly implement the foster of the emerging technologies that have an impact on the economic development in the Kingdom.
Within the context of the memorandum of understanding, the two parties will consolidate their efforts in studying the establishment of an industrial technical fund to invest in advancing the innovative capabilities of national institutions and companies in the Kingdom, and also carry out investments in entrepreneurial companies that operates in developing solutions supported by the emerging technologies, in addition to studying investment opportunities in the innovation spheres to enhance the development of the innovative environment in the Kingdom.
