UAE Highlights Success Stories At The WSIS Forum 2012 Country Workshop In Geneva
The UAE delegation at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2012 has the opportunity to highlight its significant achievements during the country workshop held on May 15, the second day of this prestigious international event, in Geneva.
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Dubai Events and Promotions Establishment (DEPE), an agency of Department of Economic Development in Dubai, today revealed results from a market research study conducted on Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS). The study, based on research carried out during DSS 2011, shows that the boost to Dubai’s economy from retail, travel and hospitality spend during the five week summer festival totalled Dhs8.8bn ($2.4bn) - including Dhs5.9bn spent by regional and international visitors, and Dhs2.9bn spent by residents of the United Arab Emirates ($1.6bn and $0.8bn respectively).
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Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the launch of its most affordable BlackBerry® 7 smartphone for customers in the UAE. Designed to be both easy to use and easy to own, the compact and sleek BlackBerry® Curve™ 9220 smartphone offers customers an outstanding combination of features and apps to help them stay connected to the people and information that matter most throughout their day.
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The partnership of the Ecological Footprint Initiative confirms its ongoing commitment towards reducing the UAE’s Ecological Footprint, and highlights the need to continue establishing science-based policies, in light of today’s international launch of the Living Planet Report 2012.
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The UAE is represented by some of its most influential organizations and significant governmental departments and offices, including the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) at the World Summit of the Information Society Forum 2012 taking place from May 14-18, in Geneva, Switzerland. The event is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Conference of Trade & Development (UNCTAD).
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Business people in the UAE are more likely to still be managing additional duties taken on in the downturn and to be spending more time away from home than their global peers, according to the Regus Work-Life Balance Index. The Index calibrates job satisfaction indicators and respondents’ views on their overall work-life balance with data on real-life practice such as working hours and commuting from a global survey of over 16,000 professionals in more than 80 countries. While globally workers are enjoying work more and becoming more productive as a result of their improving work-life harmony, the UAE work-life balance Index rating is 8 points below the global average of 124.
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In the economy at large, artificially fabricated liquidity is leading to a devaluation of currency, a trend that is both worrying and dismaying for investors or any individual with positive savings. But on the constructive end this means that there is an opportunity for increasing meaningless currency to be replaced by a return to economic sense and basic values.
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