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[wecoinverse]

🌟 Dubai Customs Unveils Cutting-Edge Blockchain Platform! 🌐✨ Leading the charge in smart city innovation, Dubai Customs has launched a revolutionary blockchain platform to enhance efficiency and transparency. 🚀🔗

[smarthometechnology]

Take complete control of your home with one interface. . . The Smart Touch Panel seamlessly incorporates an IoT gateway and intelligent switches. It empowers comprehensive smart control of your entire home, encompassing lighting, curtains, HVAC, Gate, Background Music, and various other smart home devices. Through this control panel, you can effortlessly configure and activate a multitude of scenarios.

[livinglargeindubai]

🌆 Smart Dubai: The Journey Towards a Smart City 🌆

Dubai's iconic skyline is just the beginning of its transformation into a true smart city. 🏙️ Under the visionary leadership of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai is on a mission to redefine urban living through technology and innovation.

🌟 Smart Dubai Initiative

The Smart Dubai initiative is the driving force behind this digital revolution. It aims to digitize all government services, making them accessible through a single digital platform. Imagine a city where everything from paying bills to accessing healthcare is just a click away. 💻

🚀 Shaping a Digital Ecosystem

The goal is to create an efficient, transparent, and user-friendly ecosystem where technology simplifies everyday life. It's not just about embracing the latest tech trends; it's about using them to enhance the quality of life for residents and visitors alike. 📈

🌐 A City Connected

In a Smart Dubai, connectivity is king. The city is embracing the Internet of Things (IoT) to enhance infrastructure, transportation, and public services. From smart traffic management to efficient waste collection, Dubai is all about being connected. 🌐

🌆 The Smart Dubai Vision

Dubai's vision is clear: to become a global benchmark for smart cities. It's about using data and technology to create a city that's efficient, sustainable, and forward-thinking. From the Museum of the Future to solar-powered initiatives, Dubai is making its mark on the world stage. 🌍

🌞 A Bright Future Awaits

As we journey towards a Smart Dubai, we can look forward to a city where innovation knows no bounds. It's about shaping a future where technology serves humanity, making life easier and more enjoyable. Welcome to the future – welcome to Smart Dubai! 🌞🏙️

SmartDubai #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #SmartCity #Dubai #Technology #SmartLiving

[lootech]

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[cass-parking]

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[uaevoice]

Smart Dubai organized a Smart Cities Global Network (SCGN) Webinar, on Wednesday August 5, to discuss the resilience of cities in the COVID-19 world and to highlight the need to make our cities more agile and responsive to similar challenges in the future.

[webperts]

Ramadan Mubarak from the Webperts Team. May the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan bless you and your families with prosperity, wealth, and health. #ramadan2020 #ramadan_mubarak #happyramadan #ramadandecorations #mubarak #islam #ramadan1441 #masjid #ramadandecor #kareem #pakistan #dubai #uae #mydubai #dxb #mydxb #smartdubai #abudhabi #sharjah #dua #madina makkah #muslim https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XxfBCJLPW/?igshid=15eisq3h8n48o

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[architectcorner]

Quantica Computacao is now in the second stage of Dubai Future Accelerators program. https://lnkd.in/fwJw-V2 

The next stage selection by the end of next week will take us to one of the finalists to present at the Future Blockchain Summit in Dubai. The finalists will travel to Dubai on 30th March and will receive support from the DFA team in preparing their presentation ahead of the pitching competition on 3rd April. Smart Dubai Global Blockchain Challenge 2019 is taking place in partnership with Smart Dubai Office and Dubai Future Accelerators at Dubai.

https://dubaifutureaccelerators.com/en/ #blockchain #smartdubai #dubaifutureaccelerators

[blogliterati]

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Robots are soon going to replace humans in the not so far away future, bringing about a complete revolution in the world of work as we know it. #Dubai #mydubai #UAE #technology #SmartDubai #Concept #Futuristic #future

[thenetworker]

High tech automobiles used by the UAE police. #Dubai #mydubai #UAE #police #policing #policepatrol #cops #topcops #Dubaipolice #ajmanpolice #technology #SmartDubai #conceptmobile #SmartGovernment #robotics #Techweek

[robinethinc-blog]

The initiative, ‘Smart Dubai’, has been started since March 2014. Jayshree Gupta discusses the key areas this national strategy covered to turn Dubai into the happiest and smartest city using Internet of Things.

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[cass-parking]

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[vanessakhalil]

Balancing act: the UAE treads the line between regulation and innovation

In a 2013 article, internet industry analyst Larry Downes made a strong statement: innovation and regulation simply don’t mix.

Regulated industries, he said, operated outside market-based systems, conceding to "regulatory capture" that imposed mutually exclusive interests, price controls, pre-approvals and stringent licensing.

True to Downes’ statement, recent worldwide governments’ responses have been to contain, rather than embrace, disruption brought about by knowledge-sharing companies, and have put into question the ability of bureaucracies to innovate.

Ramzy Ismail, program manager at Flat6labs Abu Dhabi, coins the shake-up of the current regulatory status quo "regulation 2.0". "Regulation was traditionally around bureaucracy and permission, and [regulation] 2.0 is about transparency and accountability," he told Wamda. Rohit Majhi, senior manager at Deloitte Monitor Middle East, concurs, saying regulators “have to act second to make sure that the residents of the country are getting the best deal out of any innovation" and ensure a level playing field for industry ecosystems.

(Image via Katie Edwards) A rock and a hard place 

Against a league of agile sharing and on-demand businesses, public and private sector giants around the world have been dealt a hard blow by quickly 'Uberizing' economies.

Managed poorly or slowly, the reverberations of this hit can have equally negative implications on the MENA region. A 2015 IBM study shows that, today, 54 percent of C-level executives, including those in the MENA region, view Uberization as the dominant threat for their businesses.

The UAE, which had anchored itself as MENA's financial, business and innovation hub, is taking on a central role in the region's transition to a knowledge-sharing economy. But it has responded to the growing clout of fast-moving Uber, Careem and Airbnb with a regulatory push and pull.

Despite controversial reports that Uber recently slashed its prices in Abu Dhabi vis a vis Careem's by 17 percent, in Dubai both ride-hailing apps operate under two interim pricing regulations set by the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA): a 30 percent pricing premium against regular taxis. Regulations that have been occasionally flouted. "By default, we’re a premium product here. In every market outside of the UAE, we’re not. The solution is in adapting and working with the regulations over time," said Careem UAE general manager Christian Eid. While the Ubers and Careems have been operating in a grey legal area, the tide seems to be changing. A recent announcement by the RTA's director of the Transport Systems Department, Adel Shakeri, stated that ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Careem will be regulated and able to apply for a license to legally operate in Dubai by end of July 2016. According to Majhi, these moves are largely due to efforts by Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) and the RTA, to mitigate the Emirate’s reputation risk particularly vis-a-vis tourists who are heavy users of global peer-to-peer platforms.

Slow-moving targets However, the UAE's recent patchwork of regulatory loopholes sends mixed signals, particularly on the extent of governmental control on free market businesses. In late March, UDrive, an app that offered rental cars on a pay-per-minute model was suspended on the basis of "logistical, regulatory, and administrative issues" following a hyped up launch that same month - granted, the company said it was to work closely with the RTA for a solution that aligned with the emirate’s car rental regulations.

In late May, Dubai's DTCM signed an MoU with Airbnb to ensure compliance with regulations it had set in mid-2015 on the platform. The regulations stipulated a long and arduous list of requirements, including applications for a license and the obligatory use of Dubai Tourism-licensed operators - who are, in turn, bound by yet another license application.

Majhi’s rule of thumb is that spaces that have traditionally required little investments and assets can transform with pace. In Dubai, education and healthcare show fast-mover promise under the emirates’ smart city ambitions - under which Dubai and Abu Dhabi are among the candidates for a pilot test for a Hyperloop, a car-sized sled powered by electromagnets that allows passengers to commute inside vacuum tubes at lightning speed. The energy sector, on the other hand, is a slow-moving target, as it requires the setup of a smart grid that is yet to be in place.

Get smart

In spite of the current regulatory fog, Smart Dubai, the government office tasked with driving the city’s smart transformation, has been moving with speed.

Counting 11 strategic public sector partners – including the RTA, DEWA, Dubai Tourism and Dubai Police – the office partnered with Du for the launch of the Smart Dubai Platform in March, which will serve as a central operating system for the city and a services and data hub.  

That same month, followed a law by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum establishing the Dubai Data Establishment (DDE), which will enable data and knowledge exchange capability development for both public and private sector.

On May 30, Dubai saw its first blockchain technology conference, which follows the Museum of the Future Foundation Dubai’s turnkey launch of the Global Blockchain Council in February 2016. As per its launch statement, the council was set up to “help UAE authorities and corporations better understand this technology and consider its regulatory implications”.

Its first pilot project, BitOasis, will be implemented by the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to design flexidesk contracts and registration processes using the Blockchain ledger. It second, Kraken Bitcoin Exchange, will help DMCC integrate Blockchain technology in select Islamic finance operations – a far cry from 2013, when the first Bitcoin ATM was shut down in the UAE over legal ambiguity.

Regulatory drawbacks and obstacles aside, the UAE’s push on innovation shows great prospects. But if it is to lead MENA by example and prove Downes wrong, the UAE must equally push on collaboration and conversation between private and public ecosystem players – challengers, skeptics and catalysts alike.

This article was originally published on Wamda.com

[gamezombietv]

Having a blast pitching #BigHistory Adventures @arabnetme as a #top10 finalist for the 2017 #smartpreneur competition! Essential #mena #techconference 💪 @smartdubai @dubaichamber #arabnetdubai #dubaichamber #smartdubai @madinatjumeirah #mydubai Let's rock, Dr. SS (at Madinat Jumeirah Conference Centre)