Estishraf Program is the analytical arm to the National Information Center in Saudi Arabia. It enables decision makers and government officials to unlock the powers of data science to drive factual decision making. The program employs an elite multidisciplinary team to apply advanced analytics and artificial intelligence technology to the centralized big data in the Data Bank to produce valuable business insights and to tell domain stories. It supports government entities in obtaining advice and recommendations that support informed decision-making. It utilizes data analytics tools and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to make diversified insights to assist leaders and government entities in obtaining advice and recommendations that support informed decision-making. Throughout its three years of operations, Estishraf implemented over 85 analytics projects which were implemented across more than 25 government entities helping decision-makers in formulating economic, political and social policies, and contributed to finding opportunities to achieve potential savings and nonoil revenues for the state treasury by more than SR 80 billion.

http://nic.gov.sa/estishraf

• Saudi Arabia

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• Indigenous and nomadic peoples
• People with disabilities
• The unemployed
• The poor
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people
• Remote and rural communities

Estishraf Platform utilizes data and AI to create diversified insights responding to top priorities of decision makers in the Kingdom. The concept can be adopted by countries with similar digital infrastructure to unlock the power of data science to drive factual decision making for government officials which contributes to optimize spending and achieve savings.

Estishraf’s main asset, the national data bank, and human talent are valuable in the context outside of providing government officials with decision support. Under the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 goals is the privatization of public services, and Estishraf already sees the potential in creating certain data driven products that will allow the initiative to be financially independent and generate its own return on investments while supporting with solving problems in both the private and public sectors.

Estishraf has many attributes showcasing innovation to deliver inclusive services through digital transformation. It utilizes data analytics tools and AI technologies to develop insights to support data-driven decision-making, in a more affordable, secure, and better representative of reality. It leverages the cross-sectoral data in the Data Bank to help government entities share the same pool of data to create a 360 view on topics which promotes reusability of resources empowering government entities to cooperate to reach their goals. Estishraf may not be directly used by the general public, but it directly increases quality of public services through empowering data-driven decisions.