The Arab
Future Cities Summit is an international gathering of city leaders,
Government officials, city developers, academicians and urban service providers
and city development experts to share strategies, insights and best practices to
implement a smart and sustainable future for the cities of tomorrow. It
gives a direction in urban planning and development with an emphasis on
effective utilization of resources.
The objective of the summit is to
facilitate an international platform to discuss the ways for the transfer of
knowledge, know how and to reflect on technological and social innovations and
transformations that are arising in cities.
Many municipalities around
the world are exploring the Smart City concept as a way to make themselves
better places to live, work, and grow. There is a growing consensus that
information and communications technology (ICT) will play a critical role in
creating sustainable cities of the future.
The concept of Smart Cities
is gaining increasingly high importance as a means of making available all the
services and applications enabled by ICT to citizens, companies and authorities
that are part of a city's system. It aims to increase citizens' quality of life
and improve the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing
entities and businesses. This perspective requires an integrated vision of a
city and of its infrastructures, in all its components, and extends beyond the
mere "digitalisation" of information and communication: it has to incorporate a
number of dimensions that are not related to technology, e.g., the social and
political ones.
Many cities are working on installing municipal wireless
networks, implementing e-government initiatives by providing access to city
departments and initiatives through websites, integrating public transportation
with intelligent transportation systems, or developing ways to cut their carbon
footprints and reduce the amount of recyclables consigned to the trash heap.
Across the Middle East and North Africa, large scale state-of-the-art
urban centres and cities that are smarter, healthier, greener, and sustainable
are rising out of the sands. New cities hold the key to widespread economic and
cultural development that will support the delivery of the visionary goals set
by governments and MENA is perfectly suited to this, given its rapid economic
expansion and diversification - and all with the benefits of green field sites
and no overhanging legacies to hold them back.
Today's property
developers cannot afford to ignore these significant advances in city
technology. The smart city concept is gaining momentum in the Middle East with
major smart cities project under development.
A look at some major
projects in the region:
Qatar has 10 smart city projects under
development with Qatar Energy City, Doha International Airport, U City, Doha and
Barwa city some of the major projects.
The King Abdullah Economic City
in Jeddah will include an advanced network infrastructure designed to deliver a
range of advanced services, supporting residential areas, a seaport, and an
industrial zone.
The King Abdullah Makkah Construction Project, which
will take six years to complete will provide Makkah with necessary services for
the Haj and Umrah. The project's infrastructure strategy will have the Grand
Mosque as its focal point
In Riyadh, the Information Technology
Communications Complex (ITCC), a $1.65 billion development including research
relevant buildings, business technology incubators, and a luxury residential
complex, will incorporate a huge fiber-optic cable network to provide super-high
speed broadband, serving advanced digital applications to a collection of
environmentally friendly, energy-efficient towers.
Abu Dhabi Masdar city
will be the world's first carbon neutral zero emission city.
The Arab
Future Cities Summit will host upto 150 senior level executives from the private
and public sectors including Mayors, Ministers, Municipalities, Urban &
Infrastructure Developers, Private Investors, Major Construction companies,
planning departments, architectural and engineering forms.
The Summit is
organised by Expotrade, a global conference and event organizer with its
head office based in Melbourne, Australia. Expotrade has delivered some of the
largest, most successful B2B industry conferences and events. For almost 10
years, our unique blend of knowledge, experience and flexibility has
accomplished an array of consistently top quality events. Today, Expotrade
events enjoy such a distinctive edge, they are amongst the best patronized in
the calendar.
Source: EIN PRESSWIRE
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