Ahood Rahbi

ITHCA GROUP

ITHCA group (formerly knows as Oman Information and Communication Technology Group) was established in 2019 to play a key role in ensuring that the investments focus on supporting the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution as well as investing in the necessary infrastructure to achieve this goal. Soon after its inception, ITHCA integrated companies like Oman Broadband, Oman Technology Fund, Oman Towers and Space Communications Technology under its umbrella. After obtaining the approval for the Group's Strategy in the same year, ITHCA signed in for strategic investment in 2020 with Oracle for building a complete cloud services system as well as with Onsor Technologies. 2021 saw the official launch of Withaq Services, which was basically centralizing the support services. The core functionalities of ITHCA are to actively work on building Oman's IT infrastructures, up-scale its networks and enhance Oman's digital capabilities. Guided by the dictum of accelerate, integrate and centralize, ITHCA would scale up data center/cloud facilities, build up cybersecurity infrastructure, enhance centralized digital capabilities and expand hub for telecom interconnections.