H.E Dr. Aisha bin Bishr, Director General, Smart Dubai Office, showcased the successes of Smart Dubai over the past three years in a global gathering of city and joy leaders at The World Joy Summit previously this month. Organized by a board of happiness supporters from all over the world, The World Happiness Summit is the first ever global movement that unites stakeholders from the government, civic, corporate, academic, positive psychology, social and emotional intelligence and human advancement sectors. The event included a three-pronged technique that consisted of a personal, invite only H-20 working roundtable with nation leaders, a three-day experiential customer meeting and a co-created occasion with the United Nations for the International Day of Happiness.

Talking on Smart Dubai's happiness-centric technique to smart city transformation, H.E Dr. Aisha bin Bishr commented, "Smart Dubai is the world's initial smart city effort which focuses on greater happiness for the city, in contrast to higher technology execution. The World happiness Summit provided us with an opportunity to share our suggestions and our 21st century method making the world a happier place."

"The World Happiness Summit made it possible for all individuals to share their learnings with each other, helping showcase different ways of increasing happiness in our cities and all over the world. Events such as the World Joy Summit are required to ensure we are regularly aiding each various other in order to develop a lot more efficient, smooth, risk-free and impactful city experiences for everyone." Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr added.

Throughout her keynote at the H-20 roundtable, Dr.Aisha discussed the transformation of Dubai from 1971 till date. Dr.Aisha discussed the launch of the Smart Dubai Initiative by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness' vision of making Dubai the happiest city in the world.

Dr.Aisha then discussed the Happiness Agenda Dubai's clinical strategy to boosting joy in the city and the implementation of the Joy Meter, which gauges happiness degrees at every client interaction touchpoint. Till day the Happiness Meter has actually been mounted at over a 1,000 touchpoints and accumulated over 6 million votes from the city, leading to a 90% Happiness Level in 2016.

As part of the three-day consumer meeting, Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr also participated in a panel titled Public law and the Typical Excellent, and was joined by co-panelists Mariano Rojas, FLACSO y UPAEP Mexico; Salvatore Di Martino, Centre for Health Promotion Leeds Beckett University; Isaac Prilleltensky, Dean of the School of Education and Human Advancement University of Miami and Nic Marks, Other of New Business economics Structure.

As part of the panel Dr.Aisha discussed just how the ideal government actions and plans such as the launch of Smart Dubai Campaign and the Happiness Schedule could impact a city in a favorable way guaranteeing better citizens. Dr.Aisha additionally stressed the relevance of an agile and collective strategy to city transformation, sustaining impactful choice making via a rich partnership network from the general public and the private sector. Dr.Aisha ended her discussion stating the fact that modern technology is simply a tool to Dubai's smart city transformation, while increasing happiness degrees of the city's residents and site visitors is the supreme goal.