Staff Report
Dubai: Hundreds of Dubai government services will be go online and will be available paperless through a new web portal.
The Dubai government expects 80 million fewer car trips by motorists running errands in the next four years, thanks to Smart Dubai’s “Dubai Pulse” online portal.
The new portal will enable internet users to conduct transactions with government as well as the private sector through the click or smartphone, government officials explained.
The Dubai Pulse portal will help in Smart Dubai’s online offering of 137 smart initiatives and 1,129 smart services to individuals to pay fines, find government forms, renew licences and documents or search for vacant properties.
It is stated that it will collate data gathered from the Internet of Things and make it available online for visitors.
Under a new Smart Dubai 2021 initiative launched on Sunday by Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, at the Future Now exhibit in Dubai Design District, he pledged to move to a 100 per cent digital future within four years leading to the Dubai Government issuing “its last paper transaction in 2021.”
Heads of most major government departments attended the event.
After touring the Smart Dubai-hosted exhibit, Shaikh Hamdan said the launch marks “the beginning of a new phase — Smart Dubai 2021 — that revolves around challenging ourselves and surpassing our own previous achievements. We are looking to build a truly smart city, one that uses technology as the key to a balanced and happy life.”
He called the Dubai Pulse online platform a “backbone of Dubai’s transformation and shift towards smart technologies.”
Shaikh Hamdan ordered all government departments to begin populating the platform with data starting on Sunday.
“Today, in the era of Big Data, it is essential to have a central platform to house all of the government’s data, a platform that taps into the potential of artificial intelligence to spread happiness among the people,” he said.
Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director-General of the Smart Dubai Office, told a large crowd that the Smart Dubai 2021 action plan and Dubai Pulse portal will make life better.
“Smart Dubai 2021 is our action plan for the near future as we work to transform Dubai into a fully smart city with smart government services that make people’s lives and business dealings easier,” Bin Bishr said.
