The Center of Excellence aims to partner with governments and other stakeholders to leverage digital technologies to enhance productivity, improve responsiveness, increase transparency and create ubiquitous digital communities

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, March 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

Pacific Control Systems (PCS), a leading global ICT service provider, has announced today the establishment of the Center of Excellence for Government Digital Services and Lifestyle with the objective to partner with governments and other stakeholders to facilitate adoption of digital technologies to revolutionize the way people, businesses and governments interact. PCS’s Center of Excellence for Government Digital Services and Lifestyle brings together a list of global technology companies who are focused in accelerating the implementation of numerous digital technologies, such as networks, cloud services, big data analytics, Internet of Things, social media, next gen ... Read more »

TOKYO - Wednesday, March 30th 2016 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) (TOKYO:7011), Hitachi, Ltd. (Hitachi) (TOKYO:6501) and Sumitomo Corporation (Sumitomo) (TOKYO:8053) were awarded a contract by State Railway of Thailand (SRT) to design and build an Electric and Mechanical (E&M) system, as a full turn-key package, for Red Line Construction Project. The contract price is approximately 32.399 billion Thai Baht and completion of the construction is expected in 2020. MHI will be responsible for design and procurement of systems other than rolling stocks, Hitachi will be responsible for the design and build of rolling stocks, and Sumitomo will be responsible for administration work and the local installation work.

In Thailand, the population is mostly dependent on automobile transportation; as a result, traffic congestion, as well as air pollution from the automobiles is getting severe. Therefore, demand for the transportation in ... Read more »