{"id":4656,"date":"2023-10-27T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2023-10-27T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:16:05","slug":"saudi-arabia-to-get-digital-replicas-of-mecca-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia to get digital replicas of Mecca, Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Saudi Arabia will have so-called digital twins, or virtual versions of five cities, including Riyadh, Medina and Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>They will be built by South Korean Internet leader Naver Corp. which won a contract to build and operate a cloud platform for Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The digital twins would provide real-time modeling capabilities and will be used for urban planning, monitoring and flood forecasting in Saudi Arabia within five years, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Korean internet giant, which provides services ranging from a search engine to generative artificial intelligence, cloud and mapping services, beat out several global technology firms to get the project.<\/p>\n<p>The countries have been expanding their cooperation over the past year, and the deal was part of $15.6 billion worth of deals and memorandums of understanding that were scheduled to be inked during the South Korean president&#8217;s visit to Saudi Arabia over the last weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia will have so-called digital twins, or virtual versions of five cities, including Riyadh, Medina and Mecca. They will be built by South Korean Internet leader Naver Corp. which won a contract to build and operate a cloud platform for Saudi Arabia. The digital twins would provide real-time modeling capabilities and will be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}