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Launch of the GeoSpa-
tial Innovation Award
40,000 buildings in 63 areas in
first phase of Makani
The Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA)
launched the Geospatial Innovation Award for
the Municipal System as part of an initiative to
support innovative and creative thinking in the
municipal system. The award comes under the
slogan “Make Innovation Yours”.
The initiative focuses on finding creative and
advanced solutions that allow the improvement
and development work in the municipal sector,
including systems applications and other smart
applications solutions.
The Geospatial Innovation Award is related
mainly to the applications and geospatial sys-
tems in the municipal system, and opens the
door to the staff of the municipal system where
they can participate in the award.
The award aims to develop services and geo-
spatial interaction with the community and peo-
ple with special needs, use advanced technol-
ogy and geospatial data solutions to improve the
accuracy of and quality of services offered to all
customers, individuals and institutions.
Dubai Municipality will be installing Makani smart
boards in 40,000 buildings located in 63 different
areas throughout the first phase of the project.
The first phase will include government depart-
ments, and metro stations and expected to be
completed in October 2015.
Dubai Municipality is working intensively now on
completing all the contractual requirements with
the company executing Makani smart boards
project, which will be implemented in several
phases to cover all areas in Dubai. It will include
the free zones, Hatta village and farms. Makani
boards will be installed at the entrances of all
buildings, warehouses, factories, hotels, schools,
mosques and farms in Dubai.
The 10-digit coordinates on the board allow us-
ers to accurately locate the entrance of the build-
ing. The board includes the QR Code, the can
be scanned in your smart phone through Makani
app or any other app to locate the building. Af-
ter scanning the code or entering the 10-digit
number, users can obtain additional information
through the Makani app such as the name and
numbers of the area, building and streets, as well
as many other services.
MOI’s Innovation Lab receives
suggestions/ideas from the public
The Ministry of Interior, through its “In-
novation Lab” initiative launched in mid-
June 2015, called upon the public to con-
tinue sending constructive suggestions
and opinions through the MOI’s various
communication channels, in order to
come up with solutions to reduce traffic
accidents. The four main causes of acci-
dents were determined to be speed, run,
use of mobile phones while driving, and
sudden/unsignaled turns.
The ‘traffic accidents’ topic was chosen,
following thorough analysis of the ideas
and proposals submitted by the public
via the Innovation Lab over the past two
months. The ‘traffic accidents’ topic was
the most mentioned by participants, as
a major challenge that needs to be ad-
dressed in all possible ways, especially
through the innovative solutions submit-
ted by the public.
After receiving all entries, the Innovation
Lab workshops will be held to choose,
analyze and study the best solutions/sug-
gestions with the aim to implement them
and bring attention to these entries and
their submitters.
The MOI launched the hashtag # The
Innovation-Lab-of the Ministry–of Interior
on the MoI’s social networking sites (Ins-
tagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and
Google+).