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The Executive Team of the Online Services Indictor, one of the indicators of the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda, held its 16th meeting at The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) office in Dubai. The meeting was headed by Salem Al Housani, TRA Acting Deputy Director General for Information and e-Government Sector in and the Chairman of the team.
The Executive Team members discussed a number of issues, mainly the plans of the sub-teams, and the focus areas of the next stage in order to enhance the coordinated government efforts to raise the indicator. They also conducted a self-assessment of the previous stages, and discussed the lessons learned for future benefit.
The meeting started with a comprehensive presentation by the Chairman of the Executive Team, during which he reviewed several topics such as the UAE Model of Smart Government Maturity, a project that is part of future shaping in the digital transformation process.
Al Housani said: ‘This model is part of our efforts for strategic alignment with the directives of the high leadership, towards the era of the Artificial Intelligence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We agreed on the importance of preparedness and readiness for the next stage, where artificial intelligence and open data will play a key role in digital transformation. As the Executive Team of the Online Services Indicator, and based on our mandate decided by the wise leadership, we are updating our process to become a national model that reflects the leading position of the UAE. The UAE Model of Digital Government Maturity is divided into two main areas: The first is the framework of digital government maturity in the UAE, and the second is a survey on the preparedness of digital government in the country.”
Al Housani also addressed the central platform of managing the inputs and outputs of the national indicators, which was launched recently under the Name “Deira”. He addressed all the sub-teams to adopt the platform as a collective central mechanism for monitoring the progress of the indicator process, after the platform has successfully passed all the usage tests, approved by the Prime Minister’s Office, and circulated to several government entities to be used for other indicators. Each of the sub-teams had the opportunity to present its achieved progress in the various projects saved on “Deira” Platform.
Al Housani also reviewed the experience of the UAE Hackathon and its results, calling upon all concerned government entities to adopt the outstanding ideas resulted from the Hackathon, as well as inviting them to make proper proposals for UAE Hackathon 2019.
The meeting concluded by setting up plans to enhance the results of the teams’ work. These plans will be uploaded on “Deira” platform and monitored over the next few weeks to observe the progress in the Executive Team processes, namely the e-participation, data, service portal, capacity building, and support portal.
The Cabinet has launched the Online Services Executive Team in 2016, among other executive teams as well as the Government Accelerators, for the purpose of realizing the National Agenda.
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