Officials and experts asserted in a virtual discussion session organized by the Dubai Police Innovation Council that discovering talented people in the country is slow and not federally on the same pace, and the talented person suffers from not embracing his innovations.
They said in the session that was held under the title "innovation and governmental changes" that the next war after "Corona" will be on the minds, so we must support talents in the country, because it is the basis of development, pointing out that parties work separately to care for the talented, but there is an urgent need for One nationwide umbrella embraces and supports talented people.
In detail, Deputy Chief of Police and Public Security in Dubai, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, said at the session moderated by the Secretary General of the Innovation Council, Dadad Saleh Al Hammadi, that there is a problem in the process of discovering and supporting talented people, as the process of discovering them is slow, and does not go at a single pace at the state level.
He added that the innovations of dozens of talented people do not see the light, because there are no national companies adopted by them like other countries, pointing out that one of the talented (Saqr Al-Marri) was an officer in the Dubai Police, and he has more than 10 counteractive and preemptive patents, including the projector Before its manufacture, he did not find someone to embrace his innovations, and this is a reality that must be changed in light of this crisis, which revealed the extent of the need for talented and innovative people.
For his part, the Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Omar bin Sultan Al-Ulama, said that the next war after "Corona" will be on the minds, as talented people in all fields are the basis of human development, stressing the need to find a scientific mechanism to discover, embrace and develop them, then invest in them.
He added that "the countries boast about their talents, and the officials accompany them on tours, and ask them for support and adoption, and this should be our orientation in the coming period." He pointed out that the state does not fail to support and encourage talented people, through several parties, such as the Mohammed bin Rashid Fund for Innovation, And the Dubai Council for Artificial Intelligence, as well as in Abu Dhabi, but it is necessary to have one umbrella for all talented people at the state level.
He continued, "During the Corona crisis, each country closed its borders to itself, which represents an important indication of the need to develop internal capabilities." He explained that the country initiated rapid steps, such as the manufacture of natural supplies locally, and scientific authorities in Abu Dhabi developed medical devices and systems, and must expand in Depending on talent development and refinement.
Furthermore, the Assistant Director-General of Strategy and Innovation said in the Office of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Ministry Affairs Minister and the future, Huda al-Hashemi, said that flexibility fast in dealing with the Corona crisis (Kovid19) by the government, especially with regard to the transition to work remotely in less than a month, Likewise, distance education raised the level of society’s expectations in the government, and this requires relying on talented and innovative people in all fields, because the post-Corona world will differ greatly from what preceded it.
Attracting talented and innovative people
Omar bin Sultan Al-Ulama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, said that “in the post (Corona) stage, we must stop importing the entire technology from abroad, and we can start collecting, modifying, and developing until we reach the stage of industrialization,” noting that the major American companies It attracts talented and innovative people from abroad, provides them with support, and gets a greater return in stages of the amount spent on them.
He cited an example of Estonia, which has a unique experience, which is represented by a number of young people who invented the e-mail "Hot Mail", then sold it to hundreds of millions, then they developed "Skype" and began investing later in the innovation environment, pointing out that major programming companies have headquarters in the state, You want to invest in citizen programmers, because they depend on innovators of other nationalities, learn with them, get experience, and leave them within two or three years to work in other countries, but these companies realize that citizens will not leave their country, and investing in them is profitable.
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Facing and preemptive patents invented by a Dubai Police officer.
The innovations of dozens of talented people do not see the light of the absence of national companies that adopt them.