The General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications Sector (TRA) organized a practical workshop on future foresight and innovation, participated by TRA management and employees in line with the directives of our wise leadership to promote a spirit of innovation and future shaping among UAE citizens and build national capacities in prospecting the future. The five-day workshop comes in implementation of TRA’s Innovation Strategy, which aims to instil and foster the innovation culture in the corporate work environment, and empower TRA’s employees in shaping the future.
On this workshop, Mr. Mohammed Al Ketbi, TRA’s Executive Director of Innovation, said: “We in the UAE look to the future with open minds, seek to foresee what developments will bring, and do not hesitate to prepare for the future with the necessary projects. What we are witnessing today in the UAE is what many countries in the world strive to achieve in the future, and what we aim to do in the near future is what others see as impossible. We have learned from our wise leadership that the future is for entrepreneurs and the dashing, and that the future does not wait but is made. In this sense, we strived to develop our plans and strategies for future shaping and innovation, enabling us to excel in one of the fastest growing sectors. Today at the TRA, we focus on looking to the future, anticipating its requirements and implementing them through innovative plans that are devised and set into motion by our trained and highly qualified national cadres.”
Al Ketbi emphasized that the Future Shaping and Innovation Workshop was organized and conducted to address the needs of the telecommunications sector, adding: "We have sensed the enthusiasm of TRA’s staff participating in this workshop through their ideas, plans and projects aimed at developing the corporate work environment and boosting productivity. The positive results we have produced in this workshop are fully consistent with our goals from the Innovation Strategy, and we will continue in the coming days to implement more initiatives and workshops in this regard.”
The Workshop included several stages, the first of which started with defining the challenges facing the TRA in fulfilling its entrusted responsibilities efficiently, while the second stage was to find unprecedented innovative solutions by ways and methods not previously used. The Workshop resulted in a set of innovative ideas to be considered by a TRA-determined competent committee, with the best ideas to be selected and developed to become actionable, and later implemented by a team consisting of the best idea owners.
The TRA makes all efforts in building future cadres to lead the ICT sector, by adopting strategies and methods that qualify UAE leaders for the post-oil phase, which will radically change the landscape of the economic, educational and social sectors. The human cadres will be capable of dealing with the demands of the next phase, such as artificial intelligence, e-commerce, new media, and others.