The Emirates Council for the Fourth Industrial Revolution approved the implementation of 14 targeted initiatives to enhance the use and employment of advanced technology in government work during the next year, as part of the efforts of the UAE government to develop innovative solutions based on the tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The UAE Minister adopts the output of the fourth industrial revolution in achieving development goals and designing solutions Innovative of current and future challenges, by taking advantage of the potentials and opportunities offered by technology and advanced science in developing vital sectors, empowering societies and building a better future for future generations.
In a statement yesterday, Al-Amiri said, “The Emirates Council for the Fourth Industrial Revolution seeks to enhance the position of the UAE as a global laboratory for future technology, through coordinating efforts to benefit from the outputs of the current technological wave, and to prepare and develop policies and practices in support of its employment in the work system and expand its use and applications.”
The 14 initiatives are divided into six initiatives supervised by the Sectoral Empowerment Committee, and eight initiatives that follow the implementation of the Committee for the Development and Adoption of Advanced Technology. These initiatives cover platforms, systems and applications, policies and strategies, capacity-building, conducting research and studies, and implementing activities aimed at enhancing the uses of the tools of the fourth industrial revolution.
In the Sectoral Empowerment Committee, the initiative of the Ministry of Economy “Holding Companies for Intellectual Property within the territories of the Emirates’s emirates”, the initiative of the Ministry of Education “the national policy for the fourth educational revolution”, the initiative of the Ministry of Energy and Industry “the Emirates Award for the Future Factory 4.0” and the initiative of the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation "Technology Policy First", the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority's initiative "International Mobile Telecommunications - 5G - 5", and the initiatives of the Office of Artificial Intelligence that include "sessions with experts" and "a workshop on the challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" and "the market of experimental ideas".
The initiatives of the Commission for the development and adoption of advanced technology will be announced at a later time.
The Council discussed developing vital platforms, systems, and smart applications, in addition to specialized policies and strategies in the areas of capacity building, research and advanced scientific studies, and evaluating these initiatives through global standards to ensure their development and achievement during the next stage.
Development solutions
The Emirates Council for the Fourth Industrial Revolution aims to design and develop solutions to the challenges facing the sectors of development and the areas of the fourth industrial revolution, by enhancing the levels of science, technology and innovation, proposing policies and initiatives, and activating coordination and cooperation between federal, local and international agencies, in a manner that ensures achieving complementarity between them and activating the contribution of the private social sector Economic, science and technology, innovation and the fourth industrial revolution.