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MEA smart cities market to reach $2.7 billion by 2022

September 18, 2019

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The 6th Annual Arab Future Cities Summit highlighted the region’s rapid development to become a global leader in smart cities, with Dubai being at the forefront of this transformation. With this growth, the role of digital technologies and smart solutions is ever increasing.

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UAE’s Safe City Group partners with AVET Technologies

September 12, 2019

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Today at DSEI 2019, UAE’s Safe City Group, announced a multi-million dirham partnership with UK-based company, AVET Technologies that will enhance investigation processes, evidence gathering techniques and data interrogation technologies to support international police,

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Condo Protego to showcase Smart City solutions at GITEX

September 3, 2019

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Condo Protego will showcase latest information management, future technology and security solutions that can enable future-ready enterprises and Smart Cities across the UAE and Middle East.

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Cyber Security

DarkMatter launches new initiative safeguarding smart cities

August 27, 2019

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DarkMatter announced the UAE Cybersecurity Research Award (CRA) initiative, an award focused on generating ideas that will safeguard the world’s smart cities against the cybersecurity threats of tomorrow.

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Seven out of 10 companies in building sector plan to increase IIOT spending

August 4, 2019

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More than 70% of medium-to-large organizations in the buildings and cities sector in the UAE and Saudi Arabia expect to increase spending on digitalization and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies in the next five years, according to a new survey by global technology leader Honeywell.

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Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange bags the finalist Smart City Middle East Awards

July 31, 2019

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Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) recently achieved the finals of the ‘Smart City Middle East Awards’, hosted by IDC and it reached this stage for the “Smart Government Administration” category with its SAHMI CRM Digital Transformation Program (SAHMI).

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Global spending on smart cities to reach US$189.5 billion

July 21, 2019

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A new forecast from IDC, the Worldwide Semiannual Smart Cities Spending Guide shows global spending on smart cities initiatives is expected to reach $189.5 billion in 2023. The top priorities for these initiatives will be resilient energy and infrastructure projects

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Axis releases latest whitepaper ‘Smart Buildings & Smart Cities Security’

July 14, 2019

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Axis Communications, recently announced the release of its latest whitepaper, Smart Buildings & Smart Cities Security. Authored in association with Virtually Informed and Unified Security, the whitepaper is the third in a series looking at specific aspects of security

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Expert Corner

Governments and Vendors need to collaborate for building Smart Cities

July 10, 2019

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Gamal Emara, Country Manager – UAE at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company highlight the need for governments and the entire vendor communities need to come together for building Smart Cities.

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Volocopter to set up first aerial taxi port in Singapore

May 27, 2019

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Leading German air taxi pioneer, Volocopter announced a cooperation with its UK-based global vertiport owner and operator, Skyports to build the first mobile Volo-Port for air taxis to unveil the plans for Volo-Port, the physical landing pads for so-called eVTOL

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Regional smart city tech investments expected to touch USD 2.30 billion

April 1, 2019

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As per the latest estimate from IDC, investments in technologies enabling smart cities in the MEA region is expected to hit the USD 2.30-billion mark by 2021. Given that large funding is needed to build smart cities, public-private partnerships (PPPs)

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ITA ties up with Omantel to implement Smart City pilot project

March 4, 2019

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The Information Technology Authority (ITA) and Omantel signed recently a MoU for smart city services to provide the required communication and support services to benefit from the applications of smart city, IoT, cloud computing services and big data within the Smart City pilot project

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