DUBAI, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched here on Sunday the Dubai IoT Strategy and the Data Wealth initiative aimed at safeguarding the emirate's digital wealth, UAE state news agency WAM reported.
"Dubai's push to build the future today has helped establish a digital infrastructure that is now a strategic national asset in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution," said Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai.
Dubai Digital Certificates were also awarded to outstanding government and private entities in the same occasion.
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid said the Dubai Digital Certificates and the Dubai IoT Strategy "mark the official launch of smart living in the emirate and we have directed all government institutions to cooperate and fully implement the initiatives by the year 2021."
He said that Dubai Digital Certificates are the benchmark against which all smart services in Dubai should be evaluated to preserve digital wealth, as he accepted the first certificate presented by Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, director-general of the Smart Dubai Office.
The Dubai IoT Strategy seeks to build "the world's most advanced IoT ecosystem in the world's smartest city to improve people's lives," said the report.
The strategy aims to protect Dubai's digital wealth, encourage government departments to join the emirate's smart transformation, and achieve the objectives of the Smart Dubai Plan 2021 to transform to a 100 percent paperless government, it added.
Data Wealth consists of data, data-storing and processing technologies, smart-tech transformation, paperless transaction policies and systems like Blockchain, digital signature and ID, smart living and clean energy.
Earlier in the year, Dubai launched the Smart Dubai 2021 e-governance scheme with the objective to eliminate all paper works at government institutions as of 2021.
