Her Excellency (H.E.) Dr. Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director General, Smart Dubai City Office (SDO) visited the Dubai Customs Office to hold a strategic meeting with H.E. Ahmed Mahbooh Musabih, Director, Dubai Customs. Accompanied by a delegation from the SDO, the Director General presented its general plan to introduce the SDO's goals and techniques to assist forge and enhance important collaborations with various stakeholders inside and outside the UAE, in order to accomplish key results in the efforts to implement a smart transformation. Likewise present throughout the meeting were Dubai Custom authorities, which included a number of assistants to the director basic, directors of administration, and heads of departments.

According to the SDO, Dubai Customs is considered to be one of the founding and strategic partners in the process to transform the emirate into a leading smart city. During the conference, Dubai Customs authorities were offered an instruction on the SDO's roadmap towards advancement, which covers a list of intensive programs, initiatives and fast response activities designed to support the efforts to accomplish the vision of His Highness (H.H.) Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to change the emirate into the most intelligent city in the world by 2017.

Dr. Aisha explained that the conference is intended towards providing the SDO's roadmap and method to its partners, while also sharing the existing developments, updates and accomplishments of the SDO. She lauded Dubai Customs for the considerable function it plays in the pursuit to become a leading smart city of the future.

Dr. Aisha mentioned, "The partnership at work is the foundation of our success and we are here today in Dubai Customs to present the smart solutions for the prosperity and happiness of Dubai locals."

Discussing the structuring of the SDO, H.H. Younis Al Nasser, CEO, Dubai Data Establishment, noted that the move is thought about to be an advanced step in the transformation process. The office is an umbrella of Smart Dubai Government Establishment, which is thought about as the technological arm of Smart Dubai and Dubai Data Establishment-- aiming to share and assist in a smooth exchange of data in between public and private sectors in addition to some possible committees of Smart Dubai City, such as Smart Infrastructure Committee and other committees to press the wheel of transformation with all the necessary requirements and efforts.

" Our vision is commonly reflected in the unified efforts to change Dubai into the happiest city on the planet at all levels and across all walks of life. We are poised to do this by utilizing the current innovative technologies that offer smart services for the happiness of our people and homeowners," stated Younis.

ounis showcased the main pillars of the initiative, including efficiency, safety, smoothness and strong influence. He also provided a summary for open and shared data, which is the most comprehensive and ambitious data worldwide. The fruits of these data will be reaped by all stakeholders, including the decision-makers, employers, Dubai residents and visitors. The Dubai Data Establishment assumes the responsibility for approving, implementing and supervising policies; adopting the classification of data; identifying the reference records and following up on commitments of data providers to comply with these set policies.

H.E. Wesam Al Abbas Lootah, CEO of SDG, referred to the preparation system of government resources, where more than 50 government bodies participate in this system, through which the incomes of more than 79,000 workers have actually been paid. He also discussed the 'Dubai Now' app, a comprehensive platform for unified services. According to him, there are presently 22 companies and entities participating in this application, which provides more than 50 smart services and have actually resulted in the shipment of over 4 million transactions.

He likewise presented the current updates that permit the getting involved bodies to put their smart services on the platform, in addition to upgrade and establish them in accordance with the user's requirements, thereby allowing the platform to end up being open for all to use, whether by individuals or groups. Furthermore, he showed the establishment's strategy, which is based upon four essential pillars-- connected services, automated services, shared services and infrastructure

H.E. Wesam Lootah further discussed that the Smart Dubai platform is the brand-new digital backbone that works on changing Dubai into a smart city. He shared that this platform is created for all to take advantage of, due to the fact that it deals with unifying services for the smart city. He included that the huge data, cloud computing and the internet along with empowering the strategic partners, will benefit the economic sector from open and shared information of the city.

Dr. Aisha concluded the conference by providing some important locations that would require the cooperation and assistance of Dubai Customs. Both parties agreed on the significance of cooperation and merged efforts in order to accomplish the vision of the nation's smart leadership through holding useful conferences in between the SDO and Dubai Customs, which will contribute to the advancement and ingenious options that SDO seeks to supply in support of the Smart Dubai initiative. This huge initiative needs mutual efforts to offer shared clever services that are intended to please the residents of Dubai