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Article: We want to make Makkah a model city, says Al-Bar.
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- Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- January 18, 2009
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Byline: P.K. Abdul Ghafour
JEDDAH: How to transform Makkah into an intelligent city with the aim of improving facilities and services being rendered to the millions of pilgrims who come for Haj and Umrah, will top the agenda of an international conference that opens at Umm Al-Qura University tomorrow.
Executives of leading international IT companies, including Wim Elfrink of Cisco, Marwan Al-Ahmadi of Zain Saudi Arabia, Charles Savage of KEE International, Siavash Alamouti of Intel, and Charlie Kindel of Microsoft, are expected to attend the conference.
Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal will open the conference organized by the Makkah ...