Smart tech coming of age in Dubai – News

Dubai’s metaverse strategy alone aims to provide $4 billion to the economy by 2030, with 40,000 jobs and 1,000 companies joining the ranks

A robotic firefighter that can be deployed continuously for 20 hours in a crisis. flying car. Drone delivery. autonomous bus. A metaverse for the next stage of digital governance, seamlessly delivering services that make life easier for residents and global citizens. It’s all happening in the UAE, where the future of living, hyper-digital connectivity and remote mobility is being facilitated and implemented by elan. Some might call it technology on steroids. They are not far from the truth about Dubai.

If San Francisco’s Silicon Valley sparked a tech giant revolution in software, or the so-called third industrial revolution, Dubai heralds and delivers smarter technology, combining tech giants with the needs of ordinary men and women because of their distance. Getting closer They practice more social distancing and get closer virtually with limited human intervention.

Some may place the blame on the pandemic’s doorstep. It is true that attitudes towards life and work have changed, but after two years lost in the wilderness of sickness, sorrow and loneliness, the future cannot wait and has a way of catching up to humanity. Dubai, however, saw an opportunity to improve the delivery of digital services during the pandemic and has since effortlessly mastered the process of what has been dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Now, it’s leading some exciting technological developments in the field.

The smart technologies showcased to more than 100,000 international visitors from 5,000 companies from 90 countries predicated the country’s bold recovery and provided much-needed new impetus to innovations that have the potential to reshape and reimagine the world.

While awe-inspiring, modern technological pursuits can also be seen as symbols of celebration and victory, such as the recent victory against the coronavirus. Take the biotech sector, which delivered a vaccine in less than a year. Healthcare has also seen a leap in government investment in talent, with the government acting as both an enabler and an investor.

So Gitex, the world’s largest technology fair that kicks off in the city on Monday, is not just a glimpse of what’s to come, as previous editions have done. It’s about bringing the future here, now. It’s about delivering on promises made before the pandemic hit us more than two years ago.

Now is the time to realize and reap the technological wonders promised by Expo Dubai. In fact, it unabashedly demonstrates that anything is possible, guided by the human spirit. Dubai’s innovations are visible on the ground and in the air, and some government departments in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are already feeling the changes they’ve wrought. Others will be jumping on them before the show closes later this week.

As I write this, an unmanned flying taxi has already taken to the skies near Dubai Marina, and it has been announced that an autonomous minibus will start commuting in Abu Dhabi next month, linking the Yas Marina F1 track.

“Gitex Global, established in 1981, has put Dubai on the global technology map and made technology a priority for Dubai,” said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Mak, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Royal Highness Thom said. The government aims to increase the contribution of the digital economy to GDP from 11.7% to 20% within the next ten years.

Dubai’s Metaverse Strategy alone aims to provide $4 billion to the economy by 2030, creating 40,000 jobs and 1,000 companies to join the ranks. With Gitex, Dubai is proving what it has achieved in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Beyond big tech. Smart Tech is coming of age in Dubai.