Smart Dubai has introduced the first-of-its-kind Smart Dubai Global Network during its yearly occasion "Future, Now", held at the Dubai Design District (d3).

The Smart Dubai Global Network is the largest global network of smart city stakeholders. It intends to combine partners that share a passion for innovative innovation, Fourth-Industrial-Revolution advancements, smart living and spreading out joy in the community with tech-enabled, human-centric services. Network members include depiction from government, the economic sector, study centres, scholastic institutes, subject matter experts and the media.

Members could join the network online and engage with each other through the first extensive global smart city directory. Smart Dubai and various other network participants may connect to one another to work together on trading knowledge around implementation of smart city and technological initiatives, ecological community enablement initiatives sustaining start-ups and entrepreneurs, ability development, magazines, events, awards and more. The Network's emphasis topics consist of essential areas in the field of smart cities consisting of big information, city experiences, expert system, paperless federal government, blockchain, digital identification and shared services' platforms.

The Smart Dubai Office explained that releasing the network at the second instalment of the "Future, Now" occasion restates the message that taking advantage of knowledge and modern technology is the bedrock of a smart society.

SDO Director General Her Excellency Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr said: "At Smart Dubai, we strongly think that embracing modern technology and installing it in the very framework of cities goes to the core of smart city advancement. With the launch of the Smart Dubai Global Network, we are basically taking a bold primary step in the direction of constructing the largest worldwide network of smart cities. The Smart Dubai Office is expanding its hand in partnership to all people and entities that share our interest for arising technologies and motivate the exchange of knowledge and skills."

"We look forward to working hand in hand with other ambitious cities from around the world, with research study centres and scholastic institutes assuming outside the typical box to locate initial remedies to both historical and contemporary difficulties, and with subject-matter professionals dedicating effort and time to sustaining the smart-transformation energy sweeping around the world," H.E. Dr Aisha wrapped up.

The Smart Dubai Global Network seeks to place Dubai as a global hub for science, innovation, research, smart living, and the future industry. It seals Dubai's global prestige and the soft power that includes knowledge, more changing the city right into a research laboratory for explore and implementing vibrant pilot jobs and innovations.

The Network is positioned to produce a vibrant development and change in research and development, and academic tasks as a whole, all the while attracting a high-skilled labor force and turning around brain drain in the region and various other parts of the world. Moreover, the uptick in foreign straight financial investment by corporations and entrepreneurs stands to accelerate and enhance economic activity in member cities.

This year's "Future, Now" event held from April 29th via May 2nd hosts a collection of workshops and instructional sessions around innovation and artificial intelligence. Among the sessions on offer are introductions of the Dubai Pulse Platform, Smart Dubai Brand Guidelines, Dubai Careers platform, Graduate Trainee Program (EDAD) Graduation, Global Happiness Policy Report 2018, Catastrophe Healing treatments and IoT improvements.