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The Sharjah Department of eGovernment (DeG) has held the first training workshop to establish a roadmap strategy for the emirate to fully integrate its digital transformation programme. Following a decree from His Highness Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah to form the emirate’s first Higher Digital Transformation Committee, the workshop looked at avenues to begin planning the exploration, development and implementation of leading digital solutions to streamline services to citizens across Sharjah.
The workshop, held at Sheraton Sharjah Beach Resort & Spa, was attended by Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Director General of DeG, Sheikh Fahim bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Department of Government Relations in Sharjah, Noor Ali Al Noman, Director of DeG, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Vice President of Smart City and Ecosystems Research at Gartner Research, and a host of directors, chairpersons and heads of departments in Sharjah.
The workshop agenda focussed on the most effective ways to identify planning frameworks in order to bring together the digital strategies created by state departments under a unified network, and execute solutions and digital projects to establish the ‘Digital Sharjah’ brand.
Using the workshop as an initial step to consolidate and strengthen the emirate’s digital infrastructure, DeG aimed to utilise the workshop to outline the basic features of sustainable planning based on an integral database that represents a systematic platform to future actions.
The workshop explored the fundamentals of empowering citizens by transforming Sharjah into a fully smart city via the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), a comprehensive, interwoven digital fabric which binds together all elements of community services for the common good.
The provision of technological solutions to extend the reach and expand the capabilities of IoT is the number one priority for Digital Sharjah, in terms of delivering the highest level of services to the emirate’s citizens and the emirate as a whole in terms of the environment, the economy, education, health, transport, utilities and much more.
Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, Director General of DeG, stressed that the workshop represents a great step forward, and said: “In order to ensure that we provide the very best services through a fully integrated smart city, Digital Sharjah must identify every avenue where our resources should be focussed towards a strategic plan. We intend to deliver improved, integrated and innovative methods to cater to every member of our society and economy.”
“This strategy will evaluate the present and future status of Sharjah’s residents, as well as allow more data to be stored within secure networks, which meet the highest international technology standards with the ability to constantly update information, in turn constantly enhancing citizens’ quality of life and work,” he added.
The workshop discussed the most significant options, in terms of stimulating the emirate’s economy, and protecting its environment, which includes buildings and premises smart services, as well as the general smart services that comprise education, transportation, health services.
It also showcased multiple options about the methods of transforming interpersonal competences and electronic information from different state entities into a unified information centre. It also illustrated how the digital transformation plans will be implemented through all fields of digital government services in Sharjah.
The workshop addressed the techniques of implementing digital transformation through a number of renewable energy technologies that contribute to establishing a sustainable infrastructure to transform many services into digital ones. It also illustrated the methods of attracting individual innovations through the on-going development of the Micro and SME sector.
DeG seeks to contribute to building the knowledge-based society through achieving excellence in digital and electronic transformation in the government sector, in addition to providing innovative electronic and digital services, employing highly skilled staff and utilising advanced operating procedures and technological systems, which meet international standards.
DeG also seeks to support the growth of economic, social and cultural affairs in the emirate of Sharjah, as part of the comprehensive strategy to achieve sustainable development in the UAE. DeG works in collaboration with other government entities in the pursuit of transparency and corporate governance as benchmarks to uplift its roles through the use of modern programmes, foremost of which is the ‘Information, Communication, Multimedia’ trilogy.
In order to achieve its goals, DeG develops strategies, plans, programmes, applications and services of eGovernment, which includes the construction of infrastructure, the development and employment of common technical specifications and standards and the ensuring of digital and eGovernment services in all public agencies.
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