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The Smart Dubai Office (SDO) held a prolonged meeting with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), one of the founding strategic partners in the ongoing procedure of transforming Dubai into a smart city. The Office's delegation was headed by H.E. Dr. Aisha bin Butti Bin Bishr, SDO Director General. This session is part of a basic plan developed by the Office to introduce its goals and strategies for developing required partnerships with stakeholders inside and outside the state to come up with much better results in the areas of smart transformation.

H.E. Dr. Aisha Bin Bishr opened the meeting by discussing the goal of showcasing the Office's road map as presented to the tactical partners and sharing the developments and updates that have made SDO a successful initiative for advancing the smart transformation of the city of Dubai in both the private and public sectors.

The delegation was received by H.E. Mattar Al Tayer, TRA Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors, in the existence of a variety of assistant basic supervisors and department directors and heads. The participants listened to the description of the Office's road map which is quickly and thoroughly progressing in order to attain the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to transform Dubai into the most smartest city in the world by 2017.

During her speech about Dubai's future as the most smartest city on the planet, H.E. Dr. Bin Bishr explained the efficiency of the role the RTA in advancing Dubai's efforts to end up being a smart city. We have come a long way in the procedure of transforming Dubai into the world's smartest city, and so today we are here at the RTA to show you the advancements at the Smart Dubai Office which is leading the way in terms of complying, overcoming obstacles, achieving integration at work and mobilizing innovative ideas in one pot.

H.E. Younis Al Nasser, CEO of Dubai Data Establishment, applauded the instrumental role of the RTA in the facility of a smart city, keeping in mind how smart mobility has become an active part of the Smart Transformation Initiative. The Office consists of the Smart Dubai Government Establishment, the technology arm of Smart Dubai accountable for assisting in the dissemination and exchange of data in between the public and private sectors. H.E. Al Nasser also commended the empowering committees for Dubai Smart City such as the smart infrastructure committee which are being established to provide the capabilities for advancing the transformation.

"Our ambition is to change Dubai into the happiest city in the world at all levels and in all elements of life by utilizing innovative innovation that provides smart services making people pleased," he added.

H.E. Al Nasser evaluated the standard pillars of the initiative such as effectiveness, safety, smoothness, and strong impact. He provided a summary of open data and common information being the most thorough and enthusiastic on the planet, since everybody will take advantage of it-- from decision-makers to employers and Dubai citizens and visitors. Dubai Data deals with policy adoption and guidance, information classification in addition to figuring out reference records, and compliance follow-up on information suppliers with the relevant policies and application.

As an application of this effort, H.E. Wesam Al Abbas Lootah, CEO of the Smart Dubai Government Establishment, examined some realities and statistics related to Dubai's wise change. He revealed that more than 41,000 support demands were processed in 2015, which the Establishment's consumer complete satisfaction rate and happiness index were at 81 percent and 83 per cent, respectively, for the same year.

In his speech on government resource planning systems, H.E. stated that more than 50 federal government entities share this system through which they pay the wages of more than 79,000 workers. He likewise discussed that Dubai is currently using the comprehensive platform of unified services, and that 22 entities are utilizing it to provide more than 50 smart services and procedure to over 4 million transactions. He presented the Establishment's strategy that depends on 4 pillars, namely: interlinked services, empowering services, common services, and infrastructure.

H.E. further described the platform of Dubai Smart Government, the new digital foundation supporting Dubai's improvement into a smart city, and shared the current updates that will permit the relevant bodies to establish, upgrade and establish their smart services themselves on the platform, in line with individual have to make his individual picture himself, and his way the platform will be open to all people and entities. He added that the platform is created to benefit everybody and intends to unify smart city services, enormous information, cloud computing, and its own Internet of Things, along with make it possible for tactical partners to ensure that the private sector will gain from the open and common information of the city.

H.E. Bin Bishr concluded the inter-sessional discussion by proposing some vital areas for joint cooperation between the office and RTA. The two celebrations emphasized the requirement for cooperation and consolidation of efforts in all fields to achieve the vision of the smart leadership. This includes holding positive meetings in between working groups which will contribute to the advancement and ingenious solutions for which the Office looks for to provide at all the measurements of Dubai Smart initiative which requires collaboration to provide typical smart services that offer happiness to individuals of Dubai.

The Dubai Smart Office was developed in late 2015 pursuant to Law No. (29) for the year 2015. It aims to provide strategic initiatives and establish partnerships for contributing to Dubai's smart economy, smart governance, smart environment, and measurements of smart life, smart people, and smart movement-- all targeted at making Dubai the smartest and happiest city on the planet.

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