 Pavilion of the Smart Villages Development and Management Company in the Smart Village | ||
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| Governorate | Gīza | |
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Smart Village, Arabic:القرية الذكية, al-Qarya adh-Dhakīya, is a technology and high-tech center near the 6th of October City in the egyptian Governorate el-Gīza, about 15 miles west of Cairo located. In addition to business travelers, the city could be a destination for those interested in modern architecture. You can also watch the multimedia panorama show in the Documentation Center for Cultural and Natural Heritage Culturama and see the exhibition of astronomical instruments.
background
The Smart Village is located north of the Sheikh Zayed City in the north of the Cairo Alexandria Desert Road on an approximately square area with an edge length of 2 kilometers.
The technology and high-tech technology center was established in 2000 by decree 355 of the former Egyptian president Husni Mubarak founded. Construction work began the following year. This Smart Village is intended to be the model for several similar technology centers in Egypt. The Silicon Valley is considered to be his role model San Francisco.
In the city there are branches of international IT companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Cisco, offices, workshops and factories of other technology companies and authorities, post office, retail stores, sports and entertainment offers as well as parks and green areas. The authorities based here include the Egyptian stock exchange Egyptian Stock Exchange, Telecom Egypt, the Center for the Documentation of the Cultural and Natural Heritage as well as the Egyptian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. In 2016, the headquarters of 160 companies with around 50,000 employees were based here.
In order to make the settlement attractive to the technology companies, there is a tax exemption for the first ten years.
There are no residential areas in the Smart Village.
As far as the architecture is concerned, essential guidelines have been given here. The buildings are white and have blue tinted sun protection windows.
getting there
In the street
Smart Village can usually only be reached by car, taxi or bus via the Cairo Alexandria Desert Road to reach. It is located about 28 kilometers behind the toll station. There is sufficient parking space on site.
There are several shuttle services mainly for the employees working here to and from Cairo.
With the helicopter
To the 1 Cairo airport
(IATA: CAI) there are air taxi offers. Smart Village has its own for this 2 Helipad.
mobility
All facilities can be reached on site by car or on foot.
Tourist Attractions
- 1 pavilion, Building 1, Street 26, Smart Village Egypt, Giza, 12577. Tel.: 20 (0)2 3535 2000, Fax: 20 (0)2 3535 2001, Email: [email protected]. The pavilion of Smart Villages Development & Management Company is the central point of contact if you want to find out more about Smart Village. With a model of the Smart Village.(30 ° 4 ′ 13 ″ N.31 ° 1 ′ 2 ″ E)
- 2 Documentation center for cultural and natural heritage (مركز توثيق التراث الحضاري والطبيعي, Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Cultnat), Smart Village, km 28, Cairo-Alex Desert Rd., Giza. Tel.: 20 (0)2 3534 3222, (0)2 3534 3111, Fax: 20 (0)2 3534 3055.
The documentation center has a book shop, the exhibition Star Riders with replicas of astronomical instruments made by medieval Arab scientists and a room for the multimedia panorama show Cultural interactive panorama (Culturama), in which the Egyptian history between the Pharaonic and modern times is presented in Arabic, English and French.(30 ° 3 '59 "N.31 ° 1 ′ 22 ″ E)
Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Exhibition of astronomical instruments in the Cultnat
Multimedia panorama show Culturama
- Architecture lovers can at least take a walk to see the buildings erected here from the outside. The branches of Egypt Post, Telecom Egypt, Bank of Alexandria, Microsoft, Intel, HSBC, TE Data, Huawei and others can be found here.
Smart Village Think Tank
Bank of Alexandria
Egypt Post
- 3 Smart Village Mosque (مسجد القرية الذكية) (30 ° 4 ′ 9 ″ N.31 ° 1 '11 "E)
Microsoft Office
Intel office
Information Technology Industry Development Agency
- In the center of the Smart Village there are extensive green spaces with watercourses.
activities
In the Smart Village there are various sports and fitness facilities such as a swimming pool, tennis courts and a soccer field.
shop
kitchen
There are various restaurants in the Smart Village e.g. B. in the conference center.
nightlife
accommodation
The construction of a hotel is planned.
Work
Learn
- There are schools and a kindergarten on site 1 Smart kids.
- 2 Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (الاكاديمية العربية للعلوم والتكنولوجيا) (30 ° 4 ′ 54 ″ N.31 ° 1 ′ 3 ″ E)
- 3 Nile University (جامعة النيل, NU) (30 ° 4 ′ 4 ″ N.31 ° 1 ′ 13 ″ E)
- 4 Conference center (Conference Center) (30 ° 4 '38 "N.31 ° 0 ′ 53 ″ E)
- Zahi Hawass Center of Egyptology (مركز زاهي حواس للمصريات). Research and training center of Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
health
Practical advice
Post and Telecommunications
- 5 post(30 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ N.31 ° 0 ′ 59 ″ E)
Banks
- 1 Bank Misr(30 ° 4 '52 "N.31 ° 0 ′ 50 ″ E)
- 2 Bank of Alexandria(30 ° 4 '43 "N.31 ° 0 ′ 49 ″ E)
trips
Excursions are after Cairo, Alexandria and in the 6th of October City possible.
literature
- Work Like an Egyptian, Report on Wired dated November 14, 2000.
Web links
- http://www.smart-villages.com/ - Official website of Smart Village
