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Albania selects Presight for AI-powered smart city project across 20 cities
Presight, a global big data analytics company powered by AI, has signed a letter of engagement with the Albanian Ministry of Interior to implement a nationwide AI-powered smart city project.
The project is set to digitise urban infrastructure, enhance traffic management, and modernise public services, and in doing so elevate Albania to be one of Europe’ s adopters of artificial intelligence and smart nation infrastructure.
The letter of engagement was signed yesterday in Tirana in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates, and His Excellency Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania. Also present was His Excellency Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced
Technology, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Presight.
The exchange took place between His Excellency Dr Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Presight, and from the Albanian side, Her Excellency Belinda Balluku, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Energy, and His Excellency Ervin Hoxha, Minister of Interior.
The smart city initiative is set to cover 20 cities across Albania and will deliver community-wide benefits from reduced traffic and congestion to faster emergency response times. The AI-powered nationbuilding project is designed to enhance Albania’ s sustainability and digital transformation agenda, while also introducing efficiencies across public services.
The project includes the following:
AI-powered smart city and traffic management platform – enabling real-time urban operations monitoring, streamlining essential public services, reducing traffic congestion, and enhancing road safety.
Advanced command and control centre – Utilising cutting-edge AI to centralise decision-making for public service operations, emergency response, and infrastructure management.
UAE based Open Innovation AI to help accelerate Oracle’ s sovereign AI in EMEA
Oracle partner and UAE-based technology company, Open
Innovation AI, announced a collaboration with Oracle to help public and private sector organisations across the EMEA accelerate the adoption and deployment of sovereign AI solutions. Through its collaboration with Oracle, Open Innovation AI aims to enable organisations across the EMEA to harness the power of sovereign AI and maximise their ROI while complying with local regulations and data security requirements.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, which includes unique bare metal GPU instances, is powering Open Innovation AI’ s end-to-end sovereign AI platform. This enables Open Innovation AI to manage GPUs efficiently, effectively, and intuitively at scale. As part of the collaboration, Oracle is offering Open Innovation AI’ s sovereign platform to its own customer base.
“ Our collaboration with Oracle marks a significant milestone in our mission to democratise access to sovereign AI solutions across the EMEA and beyond,” said Dr Abed Benaichouche, CEO Open Innovation AI.“ By leveraging Oracle’ s industry-cloud offerings and AI infrastructure, we are poised to deliver strong AI capabilities to both public and private sector organisations, fostering a new era of innovation and technological advancement.”
“ Oracle’ s collaboration with Open Innovation AI will help transform EMEA’ s AI landscape with innovative solutions that address local priorities,” said Nick Redshaw, Senior Vice President – Tech Cloud, Middle East and Africa, and UAE country provider, Oracle.“ This collaboration underscores our commitment to providing secure, scalable, and highperformance AI and cloud infrastructure that empowers our partners to achieve exceptional outcomes for our customers.”
Open Innovation AI is a technology company that specialises in developing advanced solutions for managing AI workloads. Its flagship product, the Open Innovation Cluster Manager, OICM, orchestrates complex AI tasks efficiently across diverse infrastructures. The platform is hardware-agnostic, optimised for various GPU hardware, and facilitates seamless integration and scalability for enterprise AI applications.
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