{"id":25500,"date":"2024-01-22T11:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T03:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrp.com\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2024-01-22T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T03:43:44","slug":"academic-urges-government-to-accelerate-smart-city-initiatives-fuelled-by-ai-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrp.com\/news\/2024\/01\/22\/academic-urges-government-to-accelerate-smart-city-initiatives-fuelled-by-ai-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Urges Government To Accelerate Smart City Initiatives Fuelled By AI Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An academic recommends that the government increase its efforts to establish smart cities driven by artificial intelligence (AI), aiming to facilitate public acceptance of this emerging technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putrajaya sets the target of transforming the three federal territories into smart cities by 2030, prioritising sustainability. Planned initiatives involve introducing electric buses in Wangsa Maju as a trailblazing low-carbon city, deploying closed-circuit camera (CCTV) installations in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, and providing WiFi in residential areas and public housing projects in Labuan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/nation\/2024\/01\/20\/academic-calls-for-expanded-efforts-in-ai-driven-smart-city-initiatives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FMT<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johari Yusof, a lecturer in the landscape architecture faculty at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), asserts that AI can play a crucial role in various aspects of smart city initiatives, including governance, transportation, healthcare, and waste disposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasises that integrating AI into daily life can encourage more individuals to embrace the technology, aligning with the government&#8217;s goal of leveraging it for national development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johari states, &#8220;I don&#8217;t see why people wouldn&#8217;t be interested in living in a smart city. When AI is applied in smart cities, residents&#8217; lives are simplified, leading to an improvement in the overall quality of life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the launch of &#8216;AI Untuk Rakyat&#8217; program for the people last Tuesday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced the government&#8217;s aim to have one million citizens participate in a four-hour AI literacy program by the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yuserrie Zainuddin, the vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Pahang Sultan Abdullah, highlights the need for Malaysia to expedite the adoption of AI, particularly at the higher education level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stresses that all students should be exposed to and educated about AI to seamlessly incorporate it into their daily lives, asserting that Malaysia is prepared to harness this transformative technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A lecturer at UPM said that AI plays an important role in smart city initiatives, especially in governance, transportation, healthcare, and waste disposal.\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":20151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[6364,6366,6365,6362,6304,3341,6363],"doge-sponsors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - 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