Dubai app allows staff to register attendance from home

Aisha bint Butti bin Bishr, Director General of Smart Dubai, said Smart Dubai offers a range of solutions to support the measures outlined by Dubai Government to offer its employees flexible working conditions amidst the sensitive health environment prevailing across the world. She also said that its solutions enable both vendors and customers to interact and transact with Dubai Government departments without having to interface with them physically.
The General Secretariat of The Executive Council  outlined a range of measures designed to ensure a balance between safeguarding the health and safety of government employees and ensuring normal workflow in the government sector. The measures seek to provide maximum flexibility in the working conditions of government staff, taking into consideration the needs of the family and community.
Smart Employee, another groundbreaking mobile app offered to all Dubai government employees in 58 Dubai government entities, allow them to access a range of HR and procurement services from the comfort of their home. Currently available to over 58,000 government employees, the app allows staff to register their attendance without having the need to use biometric attendance machines.
Also supporting flexible working options is Smart Dubai's Messaging and Collaboration system that allows all employees to remain connected with the office anytime and anywhere through e-mail hosting services, the government correspondence system, and more. Smart Dubai's UAE PASS, the first national digital identity for all citizens and residents, allows them to access various government websites and apps with one digital ID.
The DubaiNow mobile app allows citizens, residents and visitors to access 116 services from 33 government and private entities, from the comfort of their home.  They can pay bills and fines; top-up Salik and NOL; request their children's academic history; get, renew and cancel their spouse's and children's residency; pay for fuel at ENOC stations; and renew car registrations, among other services.
Another Smart Dubai solution that support the government's measures is the Government Resource Planning System, an integrated system of centralised technical solutions built by Smart Dubai and implemented in more than 70 government entities in the emirate. The system allows all employees to digitally handle key internal government operations in the financial, logistics, procurement and human resources fields, including salaries, recruitment and asset management.
Business customers and vendors of Dubai Government too can interact and transact with Dubai government department online through Smart Dubai's apps without the need to physically visit the department. Smart Dubai's Smart Supplier, Dubai Government's gateway to doing business with suppliers, allows vendors access a range of services anywhere at any time, without the need to visit government offices or meet government employees. Its features include registering accounts for vendors' staff, viewing and paying for tenders, receiving purchase orders, uploading invoices tracking payments and much more. Smart Supplier also helps companies stay up-to-date with continuous feedback on the status of their registration, tender submissions, purchase orders, payments and much more.
Finally, Smart Dubai's data platform Dubai Pulse, also known as the digital backbone of Dubai, hosts over 550 Open and Shared Dubai Government Data Sets. These data sets act as the key ingredient in helping Data Scientists locally and internationally continuously develop use cases, fostering the city's data ecosystem and generating the most value out of the city's data.