The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has actually revealed the 'Smart Library' initiative which enables customers to review more than 200,000 books, periodicals, magazines and other publications through a number of tablets installed at its Customer Happiness Centers. The center enables clients to spend some time reading while waiting to settle their transactions, even more adding to TRA's efforts to support the UAE's 'Year of Reading.'

Visitors at the Customer Happiness Centers might access the smart library by merely registering their names through the smart device and providing a username and password. This effort intends to support 2016 as the Year of Reading as declared by H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and introduced as a national effort set by H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in order to establish reading as a permanent social habit among present and future generations of Emiratis and UAE locals.

H.E. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, Director General of the TRA, stated that it is important to spread out the habit of reading in the UAE particularly during their leisure time, in as many places as possible, and highlighted the value of investing people's spare or transit times in reading and developing knowledge to even more enhance their mental advancement which needs to be done in areas such as restaurants, gardens, houses or libraries. To produce individuals' intellectual growth utilizing smart innovations is an achievement for the TRA as the effort promotes the nation's vision of making smart electronic devices part of individuals's lifestyle in the UAE, H.E. Al Mansoori discussed.

"The TRA will introduce a series of other efforts to support the directives of H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, specifically as smart way of life innovations are commonly readily available in the nation. The project will offer reading products through smart media and other channels to reach out to readers any place they are and whenever they want to utilize them with their smart gadgets," H.E. Al Mansoori included.

The TRA has actually advised the general public to take the opportunity to sign up and request the username and password from the personnel at Customer Happiness Centers and pass the time by reviewing books, news and other publications, highlighting that while customers may spend simply a short time at these centers, they can maximize their stay and obtain important details.

The smart library for visitors at Customer Happiness Centers is an expanded service which the federal entity formerly introduced for TRA workers which offers ample subjects for checking out by means of books, magazines and other publications.

The UAE Cabinet has actually acknowledged the declaration of 2016 as the Year of Reading, following the instructions of H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and has started preparations for an integrated national framework that will cause a generation of readers and develop the UAE as a capital of content, culture, and understanding.