In 2015, the United Nations set forth the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a blueprint to promote prosperity and transform our world to a better sustainable future. Achieving these goals by 2030 stimulate action and mobilize resources to address the global challenges we face, including challenges related to poverty, environmental degradation, education, climate, prosperity, peace inequality, and justice. The full transformative potential of ICT in shaping today's digital economy and fueling the fourth industrial revolution makes it a powerful tool to accelerate the attainment of the UN SDGs. In this context, the ICT Committee of the Federation of Arab Engineers in collaboration with the Bahrain Society of Engineers, is organizing the Arab ICT Forum 2020, under the theme ICT: Driver for Innovation and Sustainability.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and following the local authority's advice, the Arab ICT Forum 2020 this year will be held as a virtual event on 14th December 2020.