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Smart Dubai launches new diploma for Smart City Specialists

August 30, 2020

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Smart Dubai has launched a Professional Diploma to enhance the skills of the city’s ‘Smart City Experience Specialists’ and introduce them to best practices to improve the design and quality of experiencing current digital services and help create new ones to drive Dubai’s digital transformation and build a smarter city.

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Expert Corner

Smart Cities are exciting, until…

August 27, 2020

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Haider Pasha, Senior Director and Chief Security Officer for the Middle East and Africa at Palo Alto Networks explains that the concept and the idea behind Smart Cities is quite exciting but untill you ran into cybersecurity snafu

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Bee’ah bags 3 new contracts in Madinah, Saudi Arabia

August 9, 2020

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Bee’ah, the Middle East’s award-winning sustainability pioneer, is expanding into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in support of Saudi Vision 2030, after being awarded three contracts for waste management services in Madinah, covering the North, West and East regions.

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Videonetics joins Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program

August 6, 2020

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Videonetics has announced that it has joined the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program to provide their AI and Deep Learning powered Unified Video Computing Platform (UVCP) to diverse industries such as smart cities, aviation, enterprise and manufacturing to name a few.

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Dubai’s Moro Hub inaugurates Smart Cities Command and Control Centre

July 12, 2020

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The MD & CEO of DEWA, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer today inaugurated the Smart Cities Command and Control Centre of  Moro Hub, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DEWA.

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Smart Dubai wins ‘Best Smart City Innovation Impact – Global’ Award

July 1, 2020

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“Smart Dubai takes a holistic approach to digital development, and it sets the bar high,” read the Judges’ Report announcing Smart Dubai’s winning of the ‘Best Smart City Innovation Impact – Global 2020’ title, an award organised by Capital Finance International (CFI).

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Huawei and SC2 teams up to provide Smart City solutions in Saudi Arabia

June 29, 2020

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Huawei and Smart City Solutions Company (SC2), have teamed up together to provide innovative Smart City solutions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. SC2 is a leading Saudi Smart City service provider & operator and is part of the BATIC Group.

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Diamond Developers and Siemens to make smart sustainable cities

June 28, 2020

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Siemens and Diamond Developers have signed an MoU to explore implementing new smart solutions for Diamond Developers’ existing and future projects.

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Internet of Things

Smart cities offers a mixed bag of opportunities and cyber risks

May 27, 2020

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Smart cities are expected to boost lucrative business opportunities for the UAE and the region. However, the IoT, the technology underpinning these complex and interconnected urban networks, offers a considerably expanded attack surface for cyber adversaries of all kinds,

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Global smart-city AI software market set to touch $4.9 billion in 2025

March 12, 2020

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The advent of 4G and 5G internet of things (IoT)-based connectivity is spurring the online migration of smart-city applications, helping generate a more than sevenfold increase in smart-city artificial intelligence (AI) software revenue by 2025.

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Dubai Smart City Accelerator graduates new innovators

January 27, 2020

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The Dubai Smart City Accelerator (DSCA), the leading smart city program in the MENA region, hosted its third Demo Day for the 11 startups that have made it into the program’s third cohort. The headline event of the year for DSCA, the Demo Day

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Expert Corner

Smart Cities accompanies the Fourth Industrial Revolution

January 23, 2020

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H.E. Falah Mohammad Al Ahbabi, Chairman of the Department of Municipalities and Transport discusses the future of smart cities and the role various technologies leading to Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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