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TDRA Supports FedNet with AI Services

Conforming to the rapid technological
transformation in today's world, the
Telecommunications and Digital
Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA)
has launched an initiative to support the
Federal Digital Network (FedNet) with
artificial intelligence (AI) services, in a
major development that enhances the
digital transformation journey in the UAE.
This development is considered a paradigm
shift in the main services provided by
FedNet to government entities, based
on leveraging the enormous potential of
AI. Commenting on this development,
H.E. Eng. Majed Sultan Al Mesmar,
TDRA Director General, said: “Digital
transformations today are characterized
by rapid acceleration, and what we are
witnessing in 2023 indicates that keeping
pace with the current era requires an
unprecedented pace and a high ability
to adapt and absorb new technologies.
AI services on AI-supported FedNet are
a great step in the digital transformation
process, and an important element in
enhancing the ability of government
entities to provide easy and fast services
to all customers, which reflects TDRA’s role
as an enabler of digital transformation.”
Through cooperation with Microsoft and
Kagool,” a Microsoft advanced solutions analyzing big data, extracting results from addition to the infrastructure supported
partner in Data and AI”, FedNet, in its new it and converting it into value. FedNet is by high-speed Graphics Processing Units
version, will provide a set of services that one of the key digital government enablers (GPUs), FedNet has become an advanced
fall under three pillars: Applied AIthat in the UAE, and it receives special attention AI platform, providing government entities
contributes to enhancing productivity and due to its strategic importance and role in with agility to build and deploy high-quality
efficiency by reducing the time needed the digital transformation process. FedNet AI solutions and models in the visual, audio
by developers to update procedures and supports more than 35 federal entities and linguistic fields. It allows big data
processes, analyzing conversations to and more than 5,000 virtual servers. In analysis and machine learning to enable
improve customer experiences, as well 2023, FedNet achieved the VMware Cloud administrators to make proper decisions,
as automating document processing to Verified certificate for the sovereign cloud all through application programming
speed up work mechanisms. Cognitive AI, category. The importance of this certificate interfaces (APIs). Kagool is a leading global
which refers to simulating human behavior stems from the fact that FedNet takes Data and AI System Integrator specializing
and thinking to solve complex problems; It into account the highest standards of in advanced Data and AI solutions, helping
intelligently deals with complex problems, cybersecurity and national privacy, and customers embrace cloud adoption at pace
leading to more accurate results. And that all the data is stored and processed and scale leveraging proprietary Cloud
machine learning, which uses algorithms in accordance with the relevant UAE accelerator products.
that allow computers to self-learn by laws. Thanks to these developments, in

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