Data is in all its dimensions like any other technology that is rapidly evolving and changing, so there is no opportunity to stop innovating and developing its applications and tools. In this week's “moments of data”, I will address how we managed through the data to launch the next generation of accurate, reliable, interconnected and value-added government data records, which we announced at the end of March and called them “Dubai Records”.
To make the reference records closer to your surroundings, I will ask you: Have you invested the time spaces allowed by the movement restriction and the work phase from home in rearranging the collections of papers or documents you have, which have accumulated over the years?
Many did, but the surprise was that they found multiple copies of documents they no longer required, just as they found expired documents such as rental contracts for homes they left long ago or old properties for properties they sold and many others. These documents and their contents are all random data that is not easy to use.
It is present in all of our homes in one of two forms: Either it is neglected and accumulated because we did not have time to update and arrange it, so we forgot it, or that we have a specific system that the people of the house follow in preserving the data, which despite its simplicity and size is similar to the image in which government data can exist.
In the random case of the existence of data, the task of utilizing and arranging it will be difficult and complicated, while in the second case, the process will be easier.
Governments that adopted digital transformation very early on, such as the Dubai government, were easier to navigate the future of data, which led to implementing the vision of wise leadership by launching Dubai Data Corporation and its subsequent law, policies, data challenge, and other achievements.
But even with the previous steps of digitization in Dubai, we wanted in smart Dubai to upgrade the form and quality of government data availability, ease and reliability of access to them, so we launched the reference records, as part of the government development path projects of the six development paths announced by the Dubai Council at the beginning of 2020.
Dubai Records will enable us to build a network of accurate, reliable, interconnected and value-added government data records, and each record will form a unified source of the latest and most accurate data in advanced digital records, but why is this effort from Smart Dubai in cooperation with its government partners?
The goal is to make Dubai the smartest and happiest for you, through an easy and effective interaction between the government and citizens, residents and visitors, through structured and qualitative data on its quality and accessibility.
“Dubai Records will enable us to build a network of accurate, reliable, and interconnected government data records.”
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Assistant General Manager of "Smart Dubai", Executive Director of Dubai Data Corporation