Collaborative digital regulation country review: Oman’s digital transformation and collaborative regulation - Advance copy, September 2025
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
1 Introduction
2 Market environment
     2.1 Sector overview
     2.2 Digital Ecosystem in Oman
3 Policy, legal, and regulatory instruments
     3.1 ICT policy and legal framework
     3.2 Emerging technology legal and regulatory framework
     3.3 Key cross-sectoral policies and activities
4 Collaborative governance
     4.1 Institutional setup
     4.2 Stakeholder mapping
     4.3 Collaborative practices
     4.4 Private sector role
5 Overall readiness of national legal, policy, and governance frameworks for digital transformation
     5.1 Unified framework evaluation of enabling environment
     5.2 Level of regulatory maturity and policy implementation
6 Recommendations
     6.1 Emphasise results-driven joint collaboration on policy and regulatory challenges
     6.2 Improve transparency and stakeholder access to key documents, decision-making, and collaborative activities
     6.3 Create standing working groups or committees to address sector issues
     6.4 Incorporate meaningful public consultation and engagement processes
     6.5 Complete the revision or replacement of the telecommunications law
     6.6 Clarify areas of legal or regulatory overlap
     6.7 Communicate legal and regulatory framework updates to all stakeholders
     6.8 Implement current, agile, and anticipatory governance and regulatory frameworks
     6.9 Simplify legal and regulatory frameworks