Smart Dubai was awarded with the Smart Government Shield Award for its DubaiNow app during an award distribution ceremony held recently in Cairo. The pioneering application was recognized for its advancement platform - featuring 55 services provided by 24 government and private entities.

Her Excellency (H.E.) Dr. Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director General, Smart Duba Office, claimed: " We are happy that the Dubai Now app has actually won the Smart Federal government Shield Award. The app offers solutions to Dubai occupants promptly, which saves a great deal of their effort and time and enhances Dubai smart citys constant and rapid- paced growth in the race to the future. We are continuously devoted to designing new solutions for the city to provide unique and extraordinary experiences. Dubai's transformation into a smart city is dependent on an organized, integrated and sustainable process gone for an emirate of the future, which is an effective, seamless, risk-free and impactful city that puts happiness in addition to its top priorities."

Bin Bishr added: " DubaiNow is a unified platform for customers to access the city services from their office or homes, allowing their life to be the happiest and most comfortable on earth. We are striving constantly to achieve this ambitious objective of bringing happiness to individuals and thus DubaiNow app enables Dubai residents to get the most essential city solutions such as paying costs, topping up accounts, restoring vehicle registration, determining rent boosts, locating the local petrol station or ATM, looking for business tasks, reserving a trade name, renewing trade permits, choosing the right center and physician, working out an inoculation strategy, seeking the best school and university and tracking flights."

Meanwhile, H.E. Wesam Lootah, Chief Executive Officer of Smart Dubai Government Establishment, stated " Because its objective is to earn everyone in Dubai delighted, Smart Dubai has actually supplied the majority of the services in the DubaiNow application. The application is necessary due to the fact that it is the very first unified service platform that fulfills customers needs and assumptions in the city of joy, Dubai. through the app, customers can finish all their transactions anywhere they are and hence spare their valuable effort and time. While we more than happy regarding the award that we have actually won, we are fully determined to proceed benefiting Dubai to be positioned as the smartest and happiest city on earth."".

The Smart Government Shield Awards, a competition planned solely for Arab governments and their main establishments, is focused on advertising governments sites and social networking web pages, motivating innovative developing of Arab governments internet sites and smart apps and checking out and reinforcing the innovative spirit and imaginative minds operating in the electronic and smart government area. DubaiNow app won the Best Government Mobile Service Award in the One Stop App classification at the national level at the World Government Summit 2016 and the 'Best Government Mobile App of the Year' category at the '. GOV Awards 2016 in Dubai and the North Emirates.