Team Naver Digital Twin Platform Adopted as Saudi National Standard

Saudi Arabia Recommends Team Naver Platform as Priority Choice

Team Naver announced on August 20 that its cloud-based digital twin platform has received official approval as a municipal platform from the Digital Government Authority (DGA) of Saudi Arabia, designating it as the government's "National Digital Twin Standard Platform."

The company stated that, three years after securing the project in 2023, it has established a foundation to expand its technology across Saudi Arabia.

Following the approval from the Digital Government Authority, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing of Saudi Arabia recently issued an official notice to all local governments, recommending that Team Naver's platform be given priority when advancing smart city projects.

The notification requests that each local government prioritize reviewing Team Naver's platform when pursuing digital twin initiatives. The aim is to prevent redundant investments among local governments and to unify technical standards and methodologies at the national level. This measure is intended to connect the various digital twin and digital urban planning initiatives promoted by local governments under a single national framework.

The Saudi government plans to utilize Team Naver's digital twin platform as the national standard to convert a wide range of municipal administrative work—including urban planning, city operations, asset and infrastructure management, and urban safety—into data-driven practices, while sharing data and operational experience among local governments.

Previously, in October 2023, Team Naver was awarded a project from the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing to build digital twin platforms in key Saudi cities. In 2025, the company completed the platform’s implementation across the cities of Mecca, Medina, and Jeddah, covering an area of over 6,800 square kilometers—more than 11 times the size of Seoul—and modeling more than 920,000 buildings as digital twins, thus establishing a bridgehead for nationwide expansion.

Team Naver plans to further strengthen cooperation with the Saudi government and local partners following this adoption as a national standard. It intends to accelerate the localization and advancement of its technology based on its accumulated expertise and data in the construction of large-scale urban digital twins.

Chae Sunjoo, Head of Strategic Business at Naver and Chair of Naver Innovation, said, “Building on this national standard designation, Team Naver will apply its technological capabilities in digital twin, AI, and cloud to the development of urban infrastructure across Saudi Arabia, further solidifying our position as a key technology partner driving digital transformation in the Middle East.”

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