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Every AI in Oman story in reverse order of publication — reporting for founders, investors, and public-sector teams on artificial intelligence, startups, digital policy, jobs, and the revenue moving through Oman's Vision 2040 economy.
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From bottling Pepsi in 1960s Dubai to building a 75-company empire and sitting beside two sultans, Omar and Qais Al Zawawi shaped modern Oman's economy like few others.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
Oman's Sanad service centres processed over 400,000 transactions across 922 locations in H1 2026, and a new Ministry directive now forces every centre to issue a digital invoice before collecting a single riyal.
By Fatma Al-Zahra
Oman's Consumer Protection Authority is building a unified digital identity called the 'Consumer Passport' to merge complaints, reports and alerts into one account, though it has not yet set a launch date.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
SEZAD's 2026 Duqm Summer Series opens August 23 with an AI and robotics session led by four Omani women technologists from SQU, Future Data, Onsor and Star Labs.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
Sultan Qaboos University engineers, working with researchers in Malaysia, published a peer-reviewed survey this month on how AI can manage 5G and 6G network handovers, a fresh research contribution as Oman's own telecom infrastructure scales up.
By Samir Al-Balushi
Fresh NCSI data shows Oman's mobile subscriptions crossed 8.3 million and international internet bandwidth jumped 31.8% by June 2026, even as fixed 4G and 5G connections shrank.
By Fatma Al-Zahra
Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has issued a formal regulation restricting promotional calls and SMS, banning unauthorised sharing of customer data, and fining violators up to RO 30,000, giving telcos six months to comply.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs completed the final rollout batch of its Electronic Attestation Service on August 17, adding Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brunei and pushing total coverage to 66 countries.
By Omar Al-Riyami
Modern College of Business and Science hosted its second Techstars Startup Weekend in Muscat this past weekend, packing 54 hours of team-building, mentorship and fintech pitching into three days with judges from Oman Airports, Omantel and INJAZ Oman.
By Surah Al-Balushi
Omantel's H1 2026 results show group net profit up 73.5% to RO292.8 million, but the sharper signal for Oman's digital economy is ICT and emerging-technology revenue jumping 63.8% as its TechCo restructuring starts to show up in the numbers.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
From AI Everything Abu Dhabi to GISEC Global and Seamless Middle East, here are nine major AI, cybersecurity, and startup events at Dubai and Abu Dhabi venues worth the trip from Muscat this autumn.
By Dr. Khalid Al-Rashdi
Muscat-based drone and AI firm Star Drones is now at the center of high-level talks between Oman and Bangladesh on artificial intelligence, biotech, and drone technology, a rare case of an Omani startup driving state-level tech diplomacy.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning has started installing GIS-linked street signs and QR-coded building plates in Al Saadah, Dhofar, the first physical rollout of a national addressing system meant to underpin deliveries, emergency response, and digital government services across Oman.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
The Oman Tax Authority's Decision 189/2026 scraps the old four-phase Fawtara rollout for a simpler two-date system, while 100 companies begin testing the platform this month.
By Samir Al-Balushi
Oman's Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning has begun piloting an AI-backed valuation system with local platform Oman Real, comparing every property against actual recent sales to curb arbitrary pricing under the new Real Estate Register Law.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
Saleh Al Tamami traded a law firm desk for car detailing and IT consulting before co-founding Mamun, the Muscat fintech that pioneered equity crowdfunding in Oman and now settles trade finance flows as far away as Hong Kong.
By Editorial Team
Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority has opened a public consultation on draft technical rules requiring connected vehicles to keep data, cybersecurity controls, and emergency call routing inside the Sultanate.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
Musandam Governorate has launched a bilingual GIS portal mapping public facilities and tourism sites, a small but telling step toward the AI, IoT, and digital-twin tools officials say are coming next.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
Ooredoo Oman has switched on Gemini-powered AI tools inside Google Workspace for local enterprises and SMEs, becoming one of the first Omani telecoms to sell generative AI as a bundled, locally billed business service.
By Omar Al-Riyami
A 2026 comparison of five chatbot platforms for Omani businesses, assessed on Oman data residency, PDPL readiness, Arabic support, channels, implementation, and pricing.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
Oman's flagship COMEX tech show has quietly shifted to February 2027, but Muscat's convention calendar for September and October 2026 still packs climate, health, hospitality, finance, and energy events with real digital and AI threads.
By Layla Al-Zadjali
From the Oman Technology Fund's rolling accelerator cohorts to a new Industrial Business Accelerator and OCCI's franchise programme, here is every startup support opportunity worth tracking in Oman for September and October 2026.
By Editorial Team
Rihal has quietly grown from an Omani data-migration outfit into a 300-person enterprise SaaS company serving PDO, Omantel, and Bank Muscat, backed by a $15 million Series A round.
By Zaheer Al-Lawati
From a UK-accredited MSc in Data Science at GCET to Muscat bootcamps and DataMites' online certification, here are 10 AI and tech courses with open enrollment in Oman this August 2026.
By Samir Al-Balushi
Oman has completed 26 of 30 initiatives under its National E-Commerce Plan 2022-2027, with digital skills, national addressing and eKYC systems still to come before the deadline.
By Editorial Team
Nine AI and tech roles are open in Oman right now, from a Muscat drone-AI startup's CTO search to remote AI-training gigs paying up to $100 an hour.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
With Omanisation penalties now reaching OMR 500 a month per unfilled quota position, we compare five payroll and HR platforms, from Oman-built Amaal Small ERP and COHRUS to Zimyo, greytHR, and Zoho Payroll, covering compliance, WPS workflows, and quota tracking.
By Surah Al-Balushi
From a RO13,000 agentic AI contest final to youth AI and cybersecurity camps and a free virtual global AI summit, here's what's actually happening in Oman's tech scene this August 2026.
By Omar Al-Riyami
From a US export-control order that disabled Anthropic's newest models for 18 days to a custom OpenAI chip and a RO 1 million Omani tech fund, here are the five AI stories from June 2026 that matter most for the Sultanate.
By Fatima Al-Hashmi
From a 1870 trading voyage between Kutch and the Port of Sur to a 40-vertical conglomerate touching 95% of Omanis, the Khimji Ramdas story is a masterclass in generational reinvention.
By Ahmed Al-Hinai
