SmartCity promotes Kochi

Kochi, Oct 20 (UNI) SmartCity, a joint venture between TECOM and Sama Dubai, both members of Dubai Holding, is presenting landmark status updates of its current projects in Kochi and Malta at GITEX Technology Week 2008 in Dubai.

SmartCity is actively marketing the development of knowledge based communities, like SmartCity Kochi and SmartCity Malta, to senior CIOs, knowledge workers and IT professionals from some of the Middle East's most dynamic business and government organizations, as well as developers from the world's leading IT companies, acoording to an official release here today.

The event builds upon the global interest in the Middle East's ICT landscape by presenting a power-packed week of dedicated trade segments, which includes GITEX Business Solutions, GULFCOMMS and Consumer Electronics.

Commenting on the developments, Fareed Abdulrahman, SmartCity CEO said, '' SmartCity Kochi and SmartCity Malta are the first two nodes in a top-tier global network of excellence townships. In the next few years, both the SmartCity entities will open up a world of opportunities not only for the people of Kerala and Malta, who will benefit from new jobs, but also for the knowledge-based industry that will now have access new markets, talent pools and business partners.'' UNI MA VV 1844