Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 01 | Page 34

FEATURE: SMART CITIES UAE Dubai is targeting 20 million visitors by 2020 - double the number it currently receives. Dubai’s plans to create a “smart city” could produce one of the world’s most-connected and sustainable urban centres Qatar Qatar’s project market is fuelled with smart city initiatives at the heart of major developments targeted towards fulfilling the National Vision 2030 & delivering the World Cup in just less than eight years KSA The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is investing billions of dollars to build “Economic Cities,” referred to as Smart Cities. The Smart Cities are expected to support this trend, as well as create a knowledge economy 26 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 21 34 INTELLIGENTCIO customer record breaches recorded in first 6 months of 2014 across MENA, accounting for 7% of the total worldwide breaches www.intelligentcio.com