Kuala Lumpur to manage city data with Alibaba Cloud

Kuala Lumpur has become the first non-Chinese city to implement Chinese internet giant Alibaba's cloud computing infrastructure to improve its data and traffic management.

The City Brain project is a collaboration between Alibaba, the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and the Kuala Lumpur City Hall. It will integrate and analyse big and heterogeneous data generated by video and image recognition, data mining and machine learning technology. The project aims to support Malaysia’s digital transformation with cloud technology and artificial intelligence.

"Building on this partnership, we are happy to see Malaysia become the first country outside of China to adopt the City Brain," sa...