REGIONAL
A study by Global Finance Magazine in 2015 ranked the richest and poorest countries based on estimated information from the International Monetary Fund. The GCC country that made it in the top 25 is Qatar. Moreover, Qatar is more developed in the Information and communication technology compared to Saudi Arabia since it invests more in this field based on the International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) annual report. Therefore, the number of online services provided by the Qatari e government is more than the number of Saudi e government. The difference in the budget the country can place for investing in Information and communication technologies is the economic factor that causes a digital divide regionally.