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While we believe that what works for today, have witnessed significant leaps in this Today we are among the
may not work after a few years, there are context, as our government has adopted most advanced countries
some constants that will not change for a national strategies for the fourth industrial
long time, including the need to focus on revolution, the 5G, smart transportation, in Digital Government,
innovation and creativity, and leveraging 3D printing, cybersecurity and others. and in employing digital
the benefits from advanced technologies, technologies in developing
foremost of which is Communication and Today we are among the most advanced
Information Technology (ICT). countries in Digital Government, and our society. We are moving
in employing digital technologies in from digital government
The UAE was one of the first countries developing our society. We are moving to a digital life in which
to bet on the sector as an engine for from digital government to a digital life everyone engages and
change and development. Recently, we in which everyone engages and everyone
benefits. When we say everyone, we mean everyone benefits. When
Because the ICT sector today the government, the private sector, the civil we say everyone, we mean
is at the center of all trans- society as well as individuals. the government, the private
formations, the Telecommu- Our experience has benefited from the sector, the civil society as
nications and Digital Govern- vitality of the community and its lively well as individuals.
ment Regulatory Authority interaction with the digital technologies.
(TDRA) was part of that ac- We are one of the countries with the our literature at TDRA and the government
highest penetration rate of the Internet,
as a whole, where we are talking about the
tive forward-looking move- as 100% of the population uses the Web, transition from digital government to digital
ment. We are today in the which is a clear practical application of life. This means that we are expanding the
midst of a critical stage that the United Nations slogan “Leaving no one circle of digitalization to include the whole
calls for the adoption of agile behind”. society, and that is, in my view, the essence
of the desired digital transformation.
planning. This level of development is reflected in

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