After UAE joined the top 5 countries in the world in 339 developmental, economic, and social indicators in 2022, one of our goals this year has become to achieve the government’s 5 priorities that focus on the social, economic, investment, and development aspects, in order to keep pace with the rapid changes towards designing a better future for the Emirates.

How can organizations leverage data governance to manage and govern large sets of data?

Organizations are facing difficulty to leverage data for solving their problems by making it more accessible to authorized users, and by providing a clear framework for managing data quality, data security, and data privacy Data Accessibility: As part of data governance, classification of data attributes with different privacy labels like open, sensitive, internal or confidential in order to ensure the compliance standards are met while accessing and utilizing the data for decision making. Data Quality: Many organizations rely on open datasets to drive their business decisions and research. However, these datasets can often be of poor quality, containing errors, missing values, or inconsistent formatting. The goal of this challenge is to improve the quality of an open dataset, making it more useful for downstream applications and identify and correct any errors, missing values, or inconsistencies in the data. This may involve cleaning and preprocessing the data, as well as creating new features or variables. Compliance framework: a compliance framework can be developed and applied to open datasets. This may include identifying relevant laws and regulations, developing policies and procedures for data usage, and creating tools for monitoring and enforcing compliance.

Abu Dhabi Digital Authority

How can we ensure that every dataset is accurate, complete, reliable, and timely?

Organizations are facing difficulty to leverage data for solving their problems by making it more accessible to authorized users, and by providing a clear framework for managing data quality, data security, and data privacy Data Accessibility: As part of data governance, classification of data attributes with different privacy labels like open, sensitive, internal or confidential in order to ensure the compliance standards are met while accessing and utilizing the data for decision making. Data Quality: Many organizations rely on open datasets to drive their business decisions and research. However, these datasets can often be of poor quality, containing errors, missing values, or inconsistent formatting. The goal of this challenge is to improve the quality of an open dataset, making it more useful for downstream applications and identify and correct any errors, missing values, or inconsistencies in the data. This may involve cleaning and preprocessing the data, as well as creating new features or variables. Compliance framework: a compliance framework can be developed and applied to open datasets. This may include identifying relevant laws and regulations, developing policies and procedures for data usage, and creating tools for monitoring and enforcing compliance.

Abu Dhabi Digital Authority

What are the proposed solutions to confront the fraud and extortion using individuals' data and seizing their money through social media platforms?

The UAE is taking many procedures and initiatives to enhance its cyber security despite the clear spread of this threat, as the cyber threat is rapidly evolving globally with a growth in data violation annually. This threat could grow to reach more sectors and victims if we couldn’t find solutions to prevent it. Can we develop a specific method or system to detect and prevent fraud in real time and facilitate arresting those fraudsters?

Ajman Police General Headquarter

How can we recognize the behaviors, reactions, and the emotions of the passengers in Dubai airports during their trips to enhance their experience? (A happy cohesive society)

Airports are considered complicated dynamic environments and sometimes an exhausting experience for the passengers due to the long waits, security procedures, and moving between unfamiliar spots, which are continuously developing to meet the needs of passengers and other stakeholders. Understanding passengers’ behaviors and emotions from entering the airport to boarding will provide valuable insights to design more efficient, comfortable, and secured spaces. To ensure the effective design and operation of these environments, it’s necessary to understand the body language, mood, emotions, and behaviors of the passengers during their movement in the airport. This proposal aims to find an integrated technical solution to detect and analyze these elements to provide valuable insights for planning and designing the interior spaces, services, and experiences of the passengers in the future.

Dubai Airports

How can we provide ambulance services according to classification and priority of the emergency cases, and quickly rescue it through the best use of the available resources?

The early diagnosis helps to rescue the patients through providing the required medical care without any complications, but the great challenge is to recognize the type of cases (emergency or normal, to decrease the pressure on the resources). All cases that come to the operation room are considered as emergency cases due to the inability of the receptionist to classify the case.

Dubai Corporation For Ambulance Services

How to automate customer phone calls for status of New Electricity connection application

Queries on new connection status are increasing and customers have to enquire through many channels to know the status of their project. Project status for a new electricity connection application shall be automated using virtual assistant (Artificial Intelligence).

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

What are the suitable tools to help and encourage community individuals to adopt healthy and beneficial habits?

Develop methods for healthy life patterns in order to follow a set of practices that aim to enhance individuals’ health and protect them from the noncommunicable diseases such as: diabetes, cancer, heart diseases, etc) which leads to elevate the level of life, and improve the current situation of increased health expenses due to diseases, increased noncommunicable diseases, and increased obesity rate.

Dubai Health Authority

How could we develop methods to enhance psychological resilience and improve health services such as diagnosis and treatment of common psychological disorders?

The Dubai Health Authority seeks to develop innovative technologies to improve the psychological health services from protection to diagnosis and treatment. As depression and anxiety are the most common diseases, the UAE government is constantly developing new measures and plans to solve the psychological problems of the individuals.

Dubai Health Authority

What are the best tools to help drone users in recognizing the authorized places and tracks to avoid legal accountability?

Dubai is working towards the rapid application of the emerging technologies and economies. Due to the great and rapid transformations in the field of logistics and transportation, as well as the lack of drones’ tracks to detect the violations, it’s necessary to find new innovative solutions to contribute in controlling and rationing these new growing services.

Dubai Municipality

What are the proposed solutions for using and employing the available formal data and information in making the right decisions?

This challenge aims to realize the following: - Encourage the usage of formal data and statistics in making decisions through providing a platform for the participants to develop innovative solutions. - Enhance the usage of data science, machine learning, and other analyzing technologies to transform the raw data into executional visions. - Facilitate cooperation between the different participants; such as: data analysts, policy makers, and experts, to promote ideation and solve the interdisciplinary problems. - Increase awareness of the importance of making decisions based on data and the role of technology to realize this objective.

Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre

What are the proposed solutions to develop the government performance to be more resilient and effective?

In light of the disruptive changes, the world has become more vulnerable to many crises and challenges. As Covid-19 represents a clear example of a real crisis forcing the world to change, all sectors and institutions have to be resilient in dealing with the crises with solutions, initiatives, programs, and applications that could serve their sustainability. It’s a fact that designing and developing solutions towards institutions' resilience has a great impact on the state and community, which ensures the sustainability of these institutions and providing services for the individuals, community, and the country during any crisis, as well as ensuring the prompt response in dealing with such crises.

Fujairah E-Government

What are the digital solutions to develop the government work systems and accelerate the procedures and the government services?

The users journey in Al fujairah government extends across all the local authorities all the way to the financial department to meet their needs and satisfactions. We are keen to adopt the guidance of the wise leadership by boosting happiness level of the users and developing the services and system through following the government strategy for digital transformation and technological solutions as well as focusing of the user experience, and designing an advanced government experience that meet their needs towards realizing the best government services in the world, as the users of the current system are suffering from delaying the delivery and inquiries.

Fujairah Government Finance Department

How to prevent the spread of chronic and non-communicable diseases using modern applications and technologies?

The non-communicable diseases affect anybody of any age, but the elderly are the most vulnerable to these diseases. Globally, these diseases are considered the main cause for death as non-chronic diseases are among the serious diseases that a large number of the world's population are suffering from. According to the WHO’s report, the number of people with diabetes within UAE’s population reached 11.809% in 2021. The medical organizations and concerned authorities in UAE paid attention to the seriousness of the percentage of people with chronic non-communicable diseases which reached 19.3%. The UAE ranked the 6th in the world with diabetes and the percentage decreased in 2018 to be 11.8%. Despite the UAE is still in the danger zone, this decrease means that thousands of citizens will be saved from diabetes.

Ministry of Health and Prevention

How can we provide and develop the court services and judicial services to facilitate citizens’ access via AI & IoT applications?

The Ministry of Justice seeks to provide proactive services with advanced technologies that can keep pace with the future changes and facilitate access to justice. Currently, the Ministry of Justice adopts many modern technologies to individually develop its services; such as using blockchain in digital agencies and AI in smart chats. As the human factor still exists within the many procedures and in order to boost the efficiency as well as save time and effort for the citizen, the ministry seeks to solve these challenges by attracting innovative solutions using AI and IoT to obtain smart pioneering services.

Ministry of Justice

How to accelerate the litigation time and procedures by developing a smart system as a virtual judge able to view the cases’ details and accurately issuing judgments in easy cases with certain procedures?

The Ministry of Justice seeks to provide proactive services with advanced technologies that can keep pace with the future changes and facilitate access to justice. Currently, the Ministry of Justice mainly relies on the judge in studying cases and issuing judgments. As the human factor still exists within the many procedures and in order to boost the efficiency as well as save time and effort for the citizens and judges, the ministry seeks to solve these challenges by attracting innovative solutions using AI to design an electronic system to act as a virtual judge able to issuing judgments in easy cases with certain procedures.

Ministry of Justice

What are the digital solutions to develop e-pay systems and chatbots and link them with the accurate financial services that require a lot of procedures while maintaining the information confidentiality and accuracy?

AI development and employment to take actions and obtain the required services without the need to communicate with the concerned departments. Among the government steps regarding this matter is the application of a simple chat system to respond and address the direct operations and procedures with the ability to communicate directly with the concerned departments.

Sharjah Finance Department

What are the proposed mechanisms, tools, and methods for measuring the best applied government model among government institutions and measuring government and employees performance according to their different services?

There are many missions and activities of the government institutions within the UAE according to their differences, they have different standards to measure the performance and excellence in the institutional and functional role. It’s necessary to work on measuring the role of the government institutions and identify the best institutional system to be honored annually, which motivates the other departments and institutions.

Smart Umm Al Quwain Government