Sheikh Mohammed Launches new Smart Living Strategy
- Smart living in Dubai has officially begun with Sheikh Mohammed’s launch of the emirate’s flagship Internet of Things Strategy and Data Wealth initiative
- The initiative aims to protect the emirate’s digital wealth, at the Smart Dubai headquarters in Dubai Design District
- The strategy aims to encourage government departments to join the emirate’s smart transformation and achieve the objectives of the Smart Dubai Plan 2021
- The Dubai Crowd initiative was launched, as the first technical project in the IoT Strategy, which seeks to manage and organise crowds during peak seasons
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE, and the Ruler of Dubai
- The Smart Dubai initiative is anchored in the vision of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to make Dubai the happiest city on earth
- The Smart Dubai Plan 2021 aims to transform Dubai Government to a 100% paperless government
- Dubai IoT Strategy will be implemented in four stages over the coming three years
- Strategies launched so far as part of the Smart Dubai initiative include the Happiness Meter, Smart Dubai Index, Dubai Data, Smart Dubai Platform and Dubai Blockchain
