Dubai is set to revolutionize its digital landscape with the launch of a comprehensive smart app, Dubai Now, integrating over 2,000 government services. This initiative, alongside the ambitious Digital Wealth Initiative and Dubai IoT Strategy, aims to enhance smart living, safeguard digital assets, and propel the emirate towards a fully paperless government by 2021, fostering unprecedented economic and social opportunities.
Dubai Now: Your Intelligent Personal Assistant
Dubai Now, an intelligent personal assistant app, is designed to be a single point of access for a vast array of government services. Built on principles similar to Google Now, it will offer personalized updates and streamline interactions with 19 government entities through 25 micro-apps across 11 categories.
- Centralized Access: Users will log in once to access 2,000 government services.
- Personalized Experience: The app will leverage big data to tailor services and notifications, including real-time traffic updates and suggestions for alternative routes.
- User-Centric Design: The Dubai Smart Government (DSG) Department emphasizes understanding diverse user behaviors to provide relevant and timely information.
Digital Wealth Initiative and Dubai IoT Strategy
Launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Digital Wealth Initiative and Dubai IoT Strategy are foundational to Dubai’s smart transformation. These initiatives aim to protect the emirate’s digital assets and drive innovation.
- Safeguarding Digital Assets: The initiative focuses on preserving Dubai’s digital wealth, which includes data, advanced technologies, and paperless transaction systems like Blockchain.
- Economic Impact: The IoT is projected to reach AED 17.9 billion in value by 2020, with open and shared data adding AED 10.4 billion to the GDP by 2021, and Blockchain applications contributing AED 5.5 billion to the GDP by 2020.
- Smart City Ecosystem: The Dubai IoT Strategy seeks to establish the world’s most advanced IoT ecosystem, improving lives and encouraging government departments to embrace smart transformation.
Implementation and Future Vision
The Dubai IoT Strategy will be implemented in four phases over three years, culminating in the "Blockchain Journey" stage, which will see full integration of IoT policies and a significant return on investment. This strategic roadmap underscores Dubai’s commitment to becoming a 100 percent paperless government by 2021.
- Phased Implementation: The strategy progresses through coordination, integration, optimization, and finally, the Blockchain Journey phase.
- Dubai Crowd Initiative: As the first technical project of the IoT Strategy, Dubai Crowd will manage and organize large crowds during peak seasons, enhancing safety and security through real-time data analysis.
- Dubai Pulse Platform: The strategy connects various aspects of daily life to the Dubai Pulse platform, the digital backbone of the smart city project, providing decision-makers with crucial insights to drive productivity and efficiency.