Predictions of the most common uses and trends in adopting technology globally (trends) are lists viewed by decision makers, especially technology executives or digitization, and similar technical positions, with great interest, and they often translate them into experimental axes in their annual plans for raising operational efficiency, or They seek to apply them to register the first step in adopting modern technologies.
However, whatever the uses of these “trends” may differ, during the last few years, the connotations of technologies in digital transformation and its meaning have become renewed and change rapidly and momentarily, especially with the beginning of each year. But what should lead our understanding and adoption of it?
In these moments of data, I address part of the lessons learned, which were generated by the Dubai data journey, and prove that the meaning of digital transformation is changing and renewed, which applies to the meaning of data from year to year. The data in the beginning were indicative of starting and establishing, through building a platform and an organizational and operational regulatory system from the law And policies, and at the same time building government and private partnerships, to form a common understanding of the role of data that Dubai's future really needs.
One of the most important lessons learned is that digital transformation is the nerve of data, and that the maturity of the transformation model in any city depends on the maturity of the strategic direction of the city, its institutions and its private sector, in employing digitization and data to serve strategic goals, chief among them the needs of facilitating human life in its various dimensions, and building cases of use of different technologies And, based on a clear understanding of the progress of various fields, and integration with partners from the government and private sectors.
Cities should not base their data experience on what they think is necessary for sectors, but rather design them in cooperation with them, which is what made us reach this advanced level of open and sharing data.
The biggest challenge that forecasts place on data is the extent to which its system is able to enable building services for people that combine two important characteristics: the ability to anticipate new needs, and to help city leaders and city partners from the government and private sectors make the services resilient to the variables in the needs that they produce. Real-time data.
Assistant General Manager of "Smart Dubai", Executive Director of Dubai Data Corporation
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The maturity of the transformation model depends on the strategic direction of the city and the employment of digitization to serve the strategic goals.