Presight wins multi-year Albania Smart Nation AI contract
Smart nation platform to deploy across 20 cities and 28 border points
#Albania #UAE #smartcities - ADX-listed big data analytics company Presight has signed a landmark multi-year agreement with Albania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs to implement a nationwide AI-powered smart nation programme. Following a letter of intent signed in February, the new agreement will see Presight deploy an integrated AI-powered smart city platform across 20 cities and 28 international border points. Designed to digitalise, optimise and coordinate essential public services, the programme will support real-time operations management, enhanced mobility and traffic systems, improved emergency response coordination, and next-generation command and control frameworks. The move reinforces Albania’s commitment to accelerating digital transformation and positioning itself among Europe’s most technology-driven nations.
SO WHAT? - The contract represents one of Europe’s most ambitious smart nation transformation plans, demonstrating how governments can deploy AI infrastructure to transform public services. The deal brings together both Presight’s world class public sector AI expertise and references the UAE’s pioneering digital transformation of public services as an example. It is hoped that the smart nations programme will position Albania as a regional model for responsible AI application at scale, potentially encouraging similar initiatives across Southeast Europe and the Balkans.
Here are some key points about the Albanian deal:
G42 group company Presight (ADX:PRESIGHT) has signed a landmark multi-year agreement with Albania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs to implement a nationwide AI-powered smart nation programme across 20 cities and 28 international border points nationwide. The programme will digitalise critical national infrastructure whilst integrating AI into government decision-making processes to enhance institutional efficiency and community wellbeing.
A new smart city platform will deliver real-time operations management capabilities, enhanced mobility and traffic systems to reduce congestion, improved emergency response coordination to strengthen preparedness. Next-generation command and control frameworks will boost institutional capabilities across Albania’s public sector.
Viewed by Albania’s Ministry of Internal Affairs as a strategic investment in long-term safety, resilience and modernisation, the programme aims to harness AI expertise to strengthen public services, enhance institutional efficiency and improve daily citizen experiences through responsible innovation deployment.
The programme also plans to reduce urban congestion through intelligent traffic management, strengthen emergency response preparedness capabilities, and create long-term improvements in national digital capability. Albanian communities will benefit from more connected and future-ready environments.
The smart nation programme highlights strengthening UAE-Albania relations, with Albania positioned to become a model demonstrating how AI can be responsibly applied at national scale to deliver lasting benefits for institutions and citizens across European markets.
ZOOM OUT - The contract follows a letter of intent signed by the Albanian Ministry of Interior in February during a state visit by UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The initial $118.5 million project, financed via a loan from the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, commits to deploying 2,239 automatic licence plate recognition cameras, 2,602 pan-tilt-zoom cameras for traffic monitoring, 3,816 body cameras for police officers, 100 smart radars and 100 traffic sensors across 20 Albanian cities. The December announcement formalises this partnership into a comprehensive multi-year smart nation implementation programme.
[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]
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Really interesting to see Albania positioning itself as a EU smart city testbed. The scope is ambitious with 20 cities plus border infrastructure getting full integration. What stands out is the blend of traffic optimization with emergency coordination rather than treating them as seperate verticals. I worked on a similair project in SE Asia where command-and-control frameworks got fragmented across agencies and basically nothing synced. The G42/Presight model leveraging UAE experience could avoid that fragmentation, but governance at this scale is tough when you're coordinating municipality + national systems simultaneously.