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DEWA launches “Smart Servic-
es for Smarter Tomorrow”
Umm Al Quwain economic
services in e-Dirham
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)
announced that it will be part of the Dubai Smart
Government stand at GITEX 2015, which will be
held from 18-22 October at the Dubai World Trade
Centre.
DEWAwill showcase its key technological achieve-
ments and latest smart services. At GITEX 2015,
DEWA will use state-of-the-art technologies to in-
form visitors about the latest smart services and
initiatives that affect everyday life. DEWA will do
this in an innovative and interactive way. It will also
showcase its key smart projects that support the
Smart Dubai initiative.
As part of its participation in GITEX 2015, DEWA
will launch the Smart Services for a Smarter To-
morrow campaign. It will offer customers the op-
portunity to win valuable prizes through daily
draws when they complete selected transactions
using DEWA’s smart app.
The Department of Economic Development in
Umm Al Quwain began applying the e-Dirham
system to issue new licenses and for all transac-
tions. This came after Umm Al Quwain govern-
ment signed an agreement to adopt the e-Dirham
system with the Ministry of Finance and National
Bank of Abu Dhabi last February.
The agreement stipulated that all government
departments in Umm Al Quwain will join the e-
Dirham system, thus enabling them to automate
fees collection for services offered to the public
and develop and facilitate payment methods and
switch from cash payment and collection to auto-
mated revenues collection. The National Bank of
Abu Dhabi will provide the departments with all the
equipment, programs and software needed to en-
able them to use the e-Dirham system.
University of Dubai gives access to smart
services
The University of Dubai (UD) launched
the Dubai Smart View Portal, a unique
portal that gives easy access to Dubai
smart government services.
IT students at UD developed the por-
tal as part of their graduate project. It
took them an entire year of research
and work to develop the portal.
To facilitate the use of the portal, the
project will include the “smart board”
to enable users to benefit from the
mobile apps to obtain such services.
This Smart Board will be put up at
multiple places around the city such
as bus stops, metro stations and
government departments.
The project required much research
to be conducted in order to identify
the advantages of technology use.
The aim of the project is to enable
a smarter perspective of e-services,
by providing quick and convenient
access through a single click and a
seamless system.
In addition to having direct access to
government entities websites via the
portal, it can also be used for other
purposes such as ordering a taxi,
and obtaining maps for the nearest
service offices.
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