Smart City Updates
Saudi to create 10 Smart Cities
The First Saudi Conference for Smart Cities was held at Riyadh InterContinental Hotel this week. The event was organized by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs. Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Abdullatief Al-Asheikh announced, “The ministry will create partnerships to implement smart city project in 10 cities across the Kingdom as part of realizing the goals of the National Transformation Program of 2020. The highest authorities have entrusted the ministry to implement the smart city projects.”The three-day event was based on the theme “Smart solutions for a better living.” It is being claimed that the kingdom will work towards provision of smart facilities in 17 major cities thus catering to almost 75 percent of the Saudi population.
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