The firm

Information Age Consulting was built on a simple observation: the tools that let organisations understand their own text — search, analytics, automation, and now large language models — were designed for English and adapted for Arabic as an afterthought. In Kuwait, that afterthought is where the value is.

Our founder has worked on both sides of that gap for more than two decades: teaching and researching Arabic language processing at Kuwait University, and advising the institutions that have to make it work in production. His research covers computational linguistics, natural language processing, text mining, data analytics and visualisation, information retrieval, e-government and e-learning. He is a contributing author to a volume on computational Arabic morphology.

He also produced and presented information technology programmes on Kuwait TV from 2004 to 2018.

Public-sector advisory roles

Committee service

• Steering Committee for designing and developing the official portal of Kuwait (e.gov.kw)
• Committee for establishing and administrating comprehensive and self-service centres in Kuwait governorates
• Committee for refurbishing personal computers used in the governmental sector
• Committee for media awareness and national human capacity building in information technology
• Committee for using ICT in education, Ministry of Education
• Academic Committee for E-Learning, and the Committee for Establishing Smart Classes, Kuwait University

External recognition

• Microsoft published a case study on the Ministry of Education distance-learning programme, 30 March 2021.
• Forrester Research cited our Arabic natural language processing, big data and text analytics work in The Gulf Cooperative Council’s Big Data Opportunity, November 2015.
• Pulsar (Face Group, UK) published a case study on the Social Intelligence Analyzer, September 2016.
• Social Watcher was selected for the ITU’s COVID-19 Response ICT Case Repository mid-term report, from 150 solutions submitted worldwide within a month.