The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), spanning 40% of the global population, is turbocharging tech collaboration with city-planning innovations and AI-driven industrial upgrades. 🚀 From digital twins to blockchain, here's how Eurasia's biggest players are reshaping the future.
In June, the SCO launched a City Information Modeling (CIM) alliance backed by 11 Chinese institutions like Tsinghua University. Think of CIM as a 'digital Lego set' for urban planning 🏗️ – it helps cities simulate everything from traffic flows to energy use before breaking ground. 'We’re building cities that learn and adapt,' said Li Gang of Qingdao’s SCO committee.
Qingdao – the SCO’s tech trade hub – just debuted an Industrial Digitalization Alliance in May 🤖, with heavyweights like Huawei and Haier Cosmoplat sharing AI and IoT solutions. Meanwhile, the SCO’s Digital Technology Platform (DTP) is connecting e-commerce giants like Xiaomi and JD.com to spread smart infrastructure across the Belt and Road region. 💻
Why it matters? These alliances let SCO members skip tech FOMO 🚫📵 by pooling resources for everything from 3D city mapping to cloud computing. With China’s 'digital Silk Road' blueprint as a guide, the SCO could soon make lagging infrastructure as rare as a floppy disk. 📼➡️💾
