The platform, which allows users to see the city live, is meant to help in decision making and enable businesses to improve services.
Dubai - Sheikh Hamdan launches Dubai Pulse platform, which will host the emirate's data.
Published: Sun 16 Apr 2017, 5:26 PM
Updated: Mon 17 Apr 2017, 9:49 AM
To achieve this goal, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, launched Dubai Pulse platform on Sunday, which will host the emirate's data.
The smart platform, designed by Smart Dubai Office, will be the digital backbone of the emirate, will provide live data to the public, government and private entities to help all segments make better decisions.
Dubai Pulse, live now at dubaidata.ae, enables visitors and residents to access up-to-date information about eduction, healthcare, city management, transport, infrastructure, entertainment and tourism in one platform.
The platform, which allows users to see the city live, is meant to help in decision making and enable businesses to improve services.
With 37 data sets already published from six main government entities, the platform includes three layers of data: the first will be free of charge and caters to the public, while the second offers a thorough analysis of the data, in exchange for a fee, to be used for academic, professional, commercial, and economic purposes.
The third and final layer includes data accessible exclusively to Dubai Government entities.
Sheikh Hamdan also launched Smart Dubai 2021 initiative, a four-year plan that invests in technology and implements it to improve people's lives in six pillars. It covers infrastructure, legislation, and applications to move Dubai to the next level of smart transformation, in line with the requirements of the Dubai 10X Initiative and the UAE Centennial 2071.
He was brief on the Dubai Smart City achievements in during "Future Now" event at the Dubai Design District.
Celebrating three years since the launch of Dubai Smart City project, H.E. Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director-General of the Smart Dubai Office, said while the past focused on providing the smart infrastructure and platforms, the next stage is putting the plan through Smart Dubai 2021 and make the complete smart transformation.
"Over the past three years, we have stablished the strategic pillars. Now with a plan put out, the next step is to implement the technology and transform the city digitally to achieve our goal of reaching paperless transactions by 2021," said Bin Bishr.
She added that while the first phase of Dubai Pulse introduced main government services, the next phase will add more information. By the end of the year, 400 data sets are set to published on the smart platform.
Wesam Lootah, CEO of Smart Dubai Government Establishment (SDG), said Dubai Pulse is meant to integrate data from different sources into one platform to give new insights and help predict how the city is going to change and how can services be improved to achieve people's happiness.
"If an entrepreneur wants to launch an app for shared riding, for example, the platform will provide all kinds of data needed about metro/bus ridership, traffic information and all the individual needs to integrate it to their application," said Lootah.
The first stage that is already live has open data that anyone can access. "As we go, there will be more services and information released." Data that can be exchanged between government and private sectors will be released by June 2017.
Lootah noted that an Artificial Intelligence (AI) service will be added in the future to allow residents to interact with the information within the platform.
Meanwhile, the Smart Dubai 2021 initiative will cover six pillars: smart dimensions, people, environment, government, mobility, economy and smart living using emerging technologies of AI and blockchain to transform these sectors.
So far, government entities have put out 100 indicators, under which each indicator will witness the launch of projects and initiatives to implement technologies.
How far Smart Dubai Office have gone?When it first launched three years ago, the Smart Dubai Project was meant to launch 100 initiatives and 1,000 services. Today, it has 137 smart initiatives and 1,129 smart services.
Earlier in March, SDG announced its first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Smart Lab, located at Dubai design district, that will train over 200 government employees and some officials from private sector to implement AI and cognitive computing within their fields.
In October 2016, SDG launched 'Saad,' the city's first government service utilizing AI to help entrepreneurs and investors to ask questions related to setting up a business in Dubai. Saad is set to become Dubai's official concierge that will help citizens and tourists navigate across Dubai.
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