Riyadh First e-City of Kingdom
Riyadh First e-City of KingdomRaid Qusti, Arab News
RIYADH, 7 February 2007 — If all goes as planned, much of Riyadh will become the Kingdom’s first free-for-all WiFi Internet access point.
Declaring Riyadh the Kingdom’s first electronic city, officials yesterday unveiled the first phase of a project that brought Prince Muhammad ibn Abdul Aziz Street online. Anyone with a wireless device, such as a WiFi-configured laptop computer or mobile phone, can access the Internet by connecting to the airwaves around this main avenue in the city.
At an event attended by hundreds of IT specialists, officials and business executives, Riyadh Deputy Gov. Prince Sattam inaugurated the capital’s first smart zone project on Prince Muhammad ibn Abdul Aziz Street live from an event called the Smart Cities Forum held in the King Faisal Hall.
The audience watched on a large screen as the Globe atop the Al-Faisaliah Tower was linked directly with the smart zone on Prince Muhammad ibn Abdul Aziz, part of the capital’s first direct link between the smart zone areas.
According to the organizers of the forum, the establishment of smart cities in Saudi Arabia would boost government performance, security and the economy, as well as provide better services.
Governor of Telecommunications and IT Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel told reporters after the event that Jeddah and Madinah would follow suit after Riyadh, since both cities “are ready logistically to establish the smart city initiative.”
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