'#HappyDubai' to help take Dubai into world's top-10 happiest cities

Dubai Municipality has launched an initiative called ‘Happy Dubai’ to allow everyone a platform to express their happiness about the services rendered by the civic body.

"The #HAPPYDUBAI initiative is designed to highlight the services  provided by the municipality, along with a creatively technical touch, with the aim at attracting attention to Dubai from all over the world," said Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General.

"Various initiatives and the projects adopted and executed by Dubai Municipality in different fields give the emirate its unique style which makes it ‘stand out’ among the most developed cities in the world. The UAE has been ranked 14th in the happiness index set by the Global Initiative of the United Nations.

"Our goal is to spread happiness among the population of United Arab Emirates and by 2021, Dubai would like to be one of the top ten happiest cities,’" he explained.

He also said the emirate was rated the best among six cities in holding festivals and events.

"Dubai Municipality is committed to the concept of sustainable happiness of the citizens, residents and visitors. Most important services we provide are: the provision of public parks, beaches and public facilities, waste management services and quality control of food distributed in the city," Lootah said.

"We want to continue this initiative through the social media, involving residents of Dubai and urge all residents to actively participate in this campaign as they have been doing with every campaign launched by the civic body’" he said.

To join, a participant can follow us on #HAPPYDUBAI  or share DM’s tweet on their page with their comments and happiest moments related to DM services.

TRA Launches #YESUAE Campaign

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), has formally announced the launch of the ‘#YESUAE Campaign’ across the nation’s most popular social networking platforms.

The campaign is designed to garner widespread national support ahead of the UAE's participation in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 (PP-14) in Busan, Republic of Korea.

On September 23rd, at 10am local time, the public will have the opportunity to pose questions, using the ‘#YESUAE ’ hash tag, to the TRA about the event and its importance during a one hour open Twitter Q&A session.

"The UAE enjoys a strong relationship with the International Telecommunication Union, ITU, and the upcoming Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 in Busan is a really significant event. A series of elections will be taking place at PP-14 and the U.A.E. will be running for two very senior roles, a seat of the ITU Council and a position on the Radio Regulations Board, RRB," said Mohamed Nasser Al Ghanim, Director-General of the TRA.

Nasser bin Hammad, TRA’s Senior Manager of International Affairs, is the official UAE candidate for the seat on the ITU Radio Regulations Board and will take the lead on responding to the questions sent using #YESUAE during the Twitter session. The public are able to send questions ahead of the session and the TRA has urged the public to pose questions related to PP-14 and the U.A.E. ’s participation generally.

The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014 will take place in Busan from 20th October to 7th November.

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