Smart Cities News

Government and private sector companies are implementing 24 blockchain use cases across eight industry sectors including health, transportation and education.

Running on the Dubai Now platform, the application facilitates the transactions and procedures required to issue residency visas.

Dubai Future Council for Blockchain event brought together various government departments and private companies with a vested interest in smart city technologies.

Designed to provide a single, centralised, paperless service platform, its ultimate aim is to enable citizens to carry out all government transactions remotely and digitally.

The emirate will recognise entities that have made the most contributions to the Dubai Pulse platform with criteria including data compliance and support for a data-driven culture.

A new report by Smart Dubai underlines the opportunities of technologies such as AI and IoT to transform city services and emphasises the importance of open networks.

The results of Smart Dubai’s Happiness Index for 2018 reveals that citizens are 90 per cent happy with their interactions with public and private sector organisations

The six government organisations taking part in the first phase of the initiative have reduced their paper usage by 57 per cent

Smart Dubai has launched its third Global Blockchain Challenge as it continues its push to become the first blockchain-powered city by 2020