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This meeting aims to review the team’s highlights for 2019, and achievement for each of the standard initiatives that we launched
the level of achievement in standard initiatives. It also included a as well as the requirements of the next phase. We focused in the
session for innovation and future foresight. The meeting started meeting through an innovation and future foresight session on
with a presentation made by the head of the national team, in exploring solutions and ideas that serve our aspirations in the
which he reviewed the highlights of last year, including the field smart services sector, in the areas of open data, smart services,
visit to Sweden and learning about the Swedish practices in e-participation, and the requirements of the United Nations.” The
smart cities and digital transformation, the interactive meeting on meeting also discussed the challenges that will be posed in the
Twitter, the launch of the One-Character Domain (U.ae) initiative Hackathon 2020 in support of Expo 2020 in the near term and the
, The National Digital Transformation Report, the launch of the coming fifty in the long term. During the innovation and future
enablement tools for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the foresight session, the participants explored innovative solutions
Hackathon 2020 Challenges Workshop. Commenting on this drawing on creative ways of thinking for a number of challenges
meeting, H.E. Al Housani, said: “Through this meeting, the National related to digital government, such as improving mechanisms for
OSI Executive Team continues its efforts for achieving the UAE providing digital services to ensure raising people’s happiness
vision 2021. This is an important meeting as it is the first for 2020, and wellbeing, providing open data systems on the portals of
which was announced by the wise leadership as the preparation the entities and the official UAE portal, activating innovation and
year for the next fifty years “2020: towards the next 50”. The future foresight mechanisms, developing digital government
meeting participants were keen on presenting and discussing services, driving change in government entities to support digital
ideas that would draw a road map for developing smart services transformation, and ensuring the involvement of all segments of
in a way that suits the aspirations of our country, our leadership society in decision-making through digital participation. The OSI
and our people. We have accomplished a lot in the past fifty years, Executive Team includes representatives of 11 federal and local
and today we are at the starting lines of a new race that will last government entities, and its priorities are to achieve a sustainable
for the next fifty years, a race of which we would only be satisfied environment, integrated infrastructure and the goals set at the
in achieving the first place. The team meeting today aims to global level. The team works according to the most important
provide future visions to develop our smart services, in order to global trends in the e-government survey, which is bridging the
reach the ultimate goal of these services, which is the happiness digital divide, open data, promoting usage, multi-channel services,
of our community members.” H.E. Al Housani added: “During interconnected government, and e- participation.
this meeting, we addressed the most important achievements (January 13, 2020) tra.gov.ae
of the team during the past year, and highlighted the level of

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