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As rapid urbanization gains ground across the world, smart city development has become absolutely essential to urban planning in the digital era.

CIOMajlis, which functions as a thought leadership and networking hub for senior technology executives to explore business solutions and share experiences, has announced the appointment of Ahmed Al Ahmed, CIO of Nakheel, as its new chairman.

On July 16th, Trace Media, parent company of the Middle East’s leading telecom news platform, Telecom Review, held a webinar, of around 200 attendees, which was endorsed by SAMENA, IPv6 Forum, ETSI EANTC and OMDIA to discuss the latest global trends in the IPv6 industry, as well as the outlook for IPv6+.

Across the Middle East, many countries are now starting to accelerate their economic recovery efforts having put in place strong public health policies to combat the spread of COVID-19.

Huawei, a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, has been selected as a strategic ICT technology partner and cloud solution provider by Ankabut, the UAE’s Advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN) offering academic institutions connectivity to other education networks around the world, to deliver cloud-based services in support of the UAE’s educational institutions.