The main theme of PAQS Congress 2024 is Digitalization Towards a SMART Nation.

DIGITALISATION, is the ongoing integration of digital technologies and digitised data across the economy and society. Digitalisation also refers to the use of digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities.

The rapid transformation from analogue to digital has been called the 4th Industrial Revolution. The 1st Industrial Revolution being the transition from manual production to machine production. The latest revolution is a transformation from machine to digital application of artificial intelligence, creating intelligent devices and machines, to work for man.  Harnessing this technological breakthrough produces huge benefits in term of economics, productivity and efficiency that we have never seen before and are enormous to any entity, corporation, city, and nation.

Digital applications impact on every aspect of our daily life such as using advance digital devices to access digital information, online learning, online e-Commerce, e-Payment, Work from Home, via Internet of Things etc. This spins off the many popular multimedia platforms and is a part of human life that human cannot live without them.   

From the Construction Industry’s perspective, digital application helps to leapfrog efficiency and productivity, especially in the field of design and construction, spanning from initial planning, design and budgeting to operations and asset management, as data usage in the construction is huge. Adopting digital modes as common platform for exchanges of information will enhance collaboration and reduce errors.

S.M.A.R.T means for “Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology” and is achieved physically integrated with digital technologies and digital innovation. A City could be designed and constructed physically to be a highly digitally operated, managed, connected, automated, efficient and intelligent city.

Nation designed to be SMART would make up of highly automated cities and communities, efficient buildings, and smart homes, intelligent traffic and transportation system, and high speed 5G communication.  And incorporated smart elements of advance digital tools, application and technology.

DIGITALISATION to be SMART could be as broad and wide as digital technologies allow them to be.  Projects with big data involvement, consumption and application are best suited with digital technology to improve their processes to be efficient and productive. 

New digital technology and invention emerged by the hour since the relic days when transportation of riding horses and camels were invented, when mails were sent by pigeons. New applications and devices are developed, and they are powerful to stand on their own.  

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