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Efficient and seamless: Dubai’s phased approach to smartness


Thinking Cities (TC): As a start, could you please present to our readers the very ambitious Dubai Government Initiative, aimed at transforming Dubai into the Smartest City in the world? Under the visionary and charis- matic leadership of H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum - Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and the Ruler of Dubai, Dubai has achieved tremendous economic growth and is considered a regional


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role model. H.H Sheikh Mohammed launched the Smart Government initiative in May 2013, calling on all government departments to make all their services available through smart platforms. The government departments were given until the end of May 2015 to complete the transformation from e-Government to Smart Government. The Smart City initiative was then


launched in March 2014 and has three years to complete. Dubai’s Smart City


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strategy features six key dimensions such as Smart Economy, Smart Living, Smart Mobility, Smart Governance, Smart Environment, and Smart People whereas Smart ICT Infrastructure acts as the common enabler underlying all smart city services. Smart Dubai envisions a smart


and sustainable city that is ‘Efficient, Seamless, Safe and Impactful’. Dubai’s transformation into a smart city will happen in three phases: Smart Life, Smart Economy, and


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