Smart Dubai, a citywide initiative to transform Dubai into the world’s smartest and happiest city, has signed agreements to implement the Dubai Digital Certificates initiative with a number of government entities.
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, witnessed the signings between Smart Dubai and Dubai’s Supreme Legislation Committee, the Department of Economic Development, DED, and the Department of Land and Property.
The accord follows directives from His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to government institutions in the emirate to work together to preserve its digital wealth. It also implements the instructions of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad to issue the Dubai Digital Certificates and implement the Dubai IoT Strategy, which, in addition to safeguarding digital wealth, helps create a paperless future government that does not require service centres, by 2021.
The agreements also align with Smart Dubai’s strategy to achieve the objectives of the Dubai Digital Wealth initiative, benefit from the emirate’s advanced digital infrastructure and harmonise efforts across government institutions to transform Dubai into the happiest and smartest city in the world.
“Dubai excels and stands out in converting vision into action in record time on all fronts, and these MoUs are a testament to our commitment to put the Digital Wealth initiative into effect,” said Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director-General of the Smart Dubai Office, SDO. “We will begin issuing Digital Certificates to safeguard our digital wealth and provide people with greater safety and convenience. The agreements today cover three main sectors that touch every aspect of life in Dubai, legislation, property and business licensing,” she said.
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Bin Bishr said Smart Dubai received immediate responses from government entities and institutions in the emirate. “The partnership agreements we’ve signed are one step among many that will be announced as part of our road map to safeguard the emirate’s digital wealth, make the digital certificate a core element in people life and fully implement the initiatives including the IoT strategy by the year 2021.”
Sultan Butti Bin Mejren, Director-General of DLD, said, the results of this agreement represent a real leap forward in the real estate world, making DLD the first government entity in the world to implement Blockchain technology in its operations.
“DLD’s database is now ready to work with this technology,” Bin Mejren added, “which will allow us to offer many of our services, especially those related to rent, in an easy, flexible and quick way for the benefit of our customers.”
The Smart Dubai strategy seeks to create a IoT-powered environment, which catalyses the establishment of the most advanced digital infrastructure in the smartest city in the world. The strategy aims to protect digital wealth in Dubai, to encourage government departments to join the emirate’s smart digital transformation and achieve the objectives of the Smart Dubai Plan 2021 to transform into a 100 per cent paperless government.
The Dubai Digital Wealth initiative is based on data, data-storing and processing technologies, smart-tech transformation, paperless transaction policies and systems like Blockchain, digital signature and ID, smart living and clean energy, among other elements. It consists of 121 smart initiatives, 200 databases and 1,129 smart services.
