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The Smart Dubai Office (SDO) yesterday organized an initial meeting at Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED) as part of its general plan based upon working jointly and integrating efforts with the founding tactical partners to make a success of the SDO's initiative aimed at securely establishing Dubai as the smartest city on earth by 2017. This goal will be accomplished by promoting unprecedented upscale living standards for residents and visitors alike through adopting smart technology for these achievements and efforts to be in line with the vision of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler Dubai, which is moving at a high pace upwards for Dubai city to inhabit a prestigious position around the world and for Dubai occupants to be flourishing and delighted.

The SDO's see is aimed at showing the roadmap to the DED as a founding tactical partner, highlighting the advancements and updates that happened at SDO for making a success of the smart Dubai initiative, which is driving smart transformation in Dubai City, at the level of both the public and private sectors, and throwing the light on the SDO's goals and strategies for creating the necessary partnerships with stakeholders inside and outside the UAE for the supreme goal of reaching the very best smart transformation outcomes, said H.E. Dr. Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, SDO Director General.

His Excellency Sami Al Qamzi, Director General of DED, stated: "We are delighted to consult with the Smart Dubai Office team, and evaluate their efforts and method for the coming years. We invite the efforts being made by them by way of sharing ideas and experiences in order to complete the switch to wise government across numerous levels. The Department of Economic Development and its agencies will strive to attain the vision of our leadership and bring Dubai to the forefront of Smart cities worldwide in partnership with the Smart Dubai Office."

The SDO delegation was received at the DED structure in the Business Village by H.E. Sami Al Qamzi, DED Director General, assistant directors general and a variety of department directors and heads of sections, who welcomed the SDO's vision, which develops momentum and calls for combining efforts to supply such shared Smart services that befit the position of the Smart Dubai City as aspired to by the UAE sensible leadership for Dubai to become the happiest and smartest city in the world.

Praising the effective function played by the DED in seeking diligently to move to the Smart city, Bin Bishr stated: "The SDO has obtained its vision from the leadership's abundant aspiration. Based on this, we have figured out to move behind our sensible leadership making Dubai the happiest city worldwide. We plan to promote the smart transformation process all over Dubai through co-operation, integrated work and mobilization of energies to offer shared Smart services at the level of both the public and private sectors, enabling this to reflect favorably on Dubai occupants and achieve their joy."

H.E. Younis Al Nasser, CEO of Dubai Data Establishment, evaluated the structure of the SDO, which is an advanced and sophisticated step in the procedure of transformation to the smart city and runs the Smart Dubai Government Establishment (SDG), the technology arm of Smart Dubai, and Dubai Data Establishment, which focuses on allowing information to be disseminated and exchanged between the general public and private sectors.

"The DED belongs to the smart transformation initiative and our passion is to change Dubai into the happiest city on the planet by utilizing an innovative innovation that supplies smart services for the happiness of individuals", Al Nasser said.

Al Nasser spoke about the pillars which the initiative is based upon including effective, seamless, safe and impactful experiences before offering a summary about open information and shared data, these being the world's most ambitious and thorough data effort, considering that everybody would take advantage of them consisting of city planners, business owners, Dubai residents and tourists.

Dubai Data is tasked with setting and overseeing policies, embracing the information classification framework, identifying primary registries, keeping track of compliance of information service providers and carrying out policies, he stated, keeping in mind that Dubai Data is closely gotten in touch with Smart Dubai Platform.

H.E. Wesam Al Abbas Lootah, CEO of SDG, the innovation arm of SDO, stated that SDG seeks to accomplish sustainable happiness for Dubai inhabitants through the arrangement of world-class smart services and facilities and that its scope of work covers the linked services, enablement services, shared services and infrastructure.

He also talked about Dubai Smart Government Platform, which is the new digital backbone powering the smart city, detailing the latest updates that would make it possible for the taking part entities to put their particular clever services on the platform as well as to upgrade and establish them so that a person would make his own dashboard and the platform would be open for all individuals and entities.

Lootah discussed that the platform was developed in such a way that advantages everybody, combines the smart city's services, huge data, cloud computing and the Internet of things, allows strategic partners and makes sure that the economic sector gain from the city's both open and shared data.

Partners can straight gain from the fundamental enablement tools offered through the platform, which would promote effectiveness, development and decision-making of all partners and provide them with significant operational and functional advantages, he stated, keeping in mind that the platform supplies the security needed to protect people and their information.

The SDO was established in late 2015 by Law No. (29) for 2015 and targets at making strategic initiatives and developing collaborations to contribute to Dubai's smart economy, smart governance, smart environment, smart life dimensions, smart individuals and smart transport towards the smartest and happiest city in the world.

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