Dubai: Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Dubai Future Foundation (DFF), on Wednesday visited the foundation’s headquarters in Jumeirah Emirates Towers, accompanied by Shaikh Maktoum Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai.
Shaikh Hamdan and Shaikh Maktoum viewed some of the foundation’s top initiatives, green-lighting 25 projects submitted under the Dubai 10x Programme, which were shortlisted from a total of 163 entries by a panel of private-sector experts.
Mohammad Bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future and vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees and managing director of DFF, accompanied Shaikh Hamdan and Shaikh Maktoum on their visit, along with DFF’s acting CEO Abdullah Bin Touq and the Dubai 10x team at the foundation.
The Dubai 10x Programme, launched by His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, at the World Government Summit, back in February, ushering in a new era of government work, where officials prioritise the community and people’s happiness, and establish future forecasting as a central component of government activities.
The Dubai Future Foundation is working with other government entities to embrace disruptive innovation as a fundamental mantra of their operations and seek ways to incorporate its methodologies in all aspects of their work and place Dubai 10 years ahead of other cities.
The first requirement for the participating entities is to create independent X-Units whose mandate is finding ways to disrupt their own organisations’ practices and develop their own moon-shot solutions. The second requirement is trial and scale radically disruptive organisational structures, systems and technologies. And thirdly, to partner with and facilitate disruptive solutions and remove regulatory obstacles.
