Smart Dubai launches initiative to act as single source of data registries

Smart Dubai has launched the ‘Dubai Registers’ initiative to build a network of accurate, reliable, and interconnected data registries for a sustainable and happy city.

The project is part of the Government Development track – one of six development tracks announced by the Dubai Council in early 2020, said a Smart Dubai press release on Monday.

The initiative’s approach is to collect, organise, link and store the latest and most accurate data for the most important aspects of Dubai life – the emirate’s people, its economy, land and other assets. The purpose of creating these digital registries is to ensure that Dubai’s data is useful to as many as possible.

Data organised in this way can be used to ensure more efficient and higher quality interactions between the government and its citizens, residents, and visitors.

The initiative sets out a clear roadmap for 2020 and 2021 for the prioritisation and preparation of registries in general, along with the supporting standards and advanced governance procedures to ensure safe and responsible use of data. The project will make use of reliable data available on the Dubai Pulse platform to identify potential registries.

Commenting on the initiative, Dr. Aisha bint Butti bin Bishr, Director-General of Smart Dubai, said, "Dubai has led a steadfast and illustrious journey towards harnessing the power of data and building a robust infrastructure that puts data at the heart of future smart-city plans. Following the vision and directives of our wise leadership, and as the government entity tasked with spearheading Dubai’s smart transformation, Smart Dubai has rolled out a whole portfolio of initiatives and services built around harnessing the power of data."

"And today, we celebrate yet another addition to these initiatives," Dr. Aisha added. "Dubai Registers marks a ground-breaking new milestone in our journey; it allows us to begin utilising the vast amounts of data we have accumulated through other initiatives, and classify and present them in the manner most accessible and useful to our various partners and the residents and visitors of Dubai.

The project, she said, also allows government entities to use Dubai Registers to accelerate the pace of achieving the Dubai Paperless Strategy’s objectives, which aims to digitise all internal and external government to individuals transactions, making them fully paperless by December 2021."

According to the Dubai Data Law, these registries will be identified, organised, and categorised, in addition to identifying the entities responsible for each of them. They will be used as a single and reliable source to provide information to others – one that is recognised as a reference by Smart Dubai, as per the Dubai Data Law.

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