In pics: Large percentage Egypt’s ‘Knowledge City’ at New Capital announced completed

CAIRO – 14 May 2022: Large percentage of the “Knowledge City” project in the New Administrative Capital, which supports research and innovation using advance technologies, has been completed, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.

The Knowledge City is being built in the New Administrative Capital on an area of ​​200 acres, with a total investment of 15 billion pounds, and a large percentage of the city’s first phase has been completed

The city includes the Egypt Informatics University specialized in communication sciences, information technology and related fields. It is the first specialized informatics university in Africa and Middle East, aiming to provide education and scientific research on a world-class level and provide capacity building programs and provide consultancy, which contributes to human, social and economic development in Egypt, the sister Arab countries and Africa.

The first phase of the Knowledge City also includes 4 buildings, which are: a building for innovation and applied research, another for technical training, a building for research and development in assistive technology, and the Egypt Informatics University specialized in communications sciences, information technology and related fields.

The well-known city is characterized as having the first innovation center in the fourth industrial generation in Egypt, on an area of ​​15,000 square meters, which provides necessary support in the areas of stimulating industrial innovation and designing smart factories in a way that contributes to the transfer of knowledge and the development of the industrial sector.

The Knowledge City project is in line with the vision of the New Administrative Capital, which is a green smart city with global technologies and an ecosystem that includes a solid partnership between all stakeholders to serve the sustainable development goals.

The new administrative capital embodies the Egyptian state's plan to shift towards a new generation of sustainable and environmentally friendly smart cities, which include smart city technologies and provide a unified digital infrastructure and network of smart facilities, according to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.