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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
                              Connecting cities and communities with the Sustainable Development Goals

            The SDP is unique in several ways, principally in the breadth of city solutions that it will empower and in its
            employment of innovative leading edge technologies.




                Smart Dubai is implementing the Smart Dubai Platform,

                the new digital backbone powering Dubai’s smart city

                transformation.








               IOT MANAGEMENT &         OPEN & SHARED CITY      GEO-LOCATION DATA       DASHBOARD AND
               DATA AGGREGATION         DATA CATALOGUE          SUPPORT                 ANALYTICS TOOLS







               DIGITAL ID SERVICES    DIGITAL PAYMENT            PLATFORM AS A        REAL-TIME / IN MEMORY
               (DUBAIID)              GATEWAY (DUBAIPAY)         SERVICE (PAAS)       APP ENVIRONMENT

                                          Figure 11-1 – SDP Platform initial services


            The principal role of the SDP will be as technical enabler for the interconnection of data throughout the city
            and as technical incubator to new, seamless citywide services.
            Dubai targets the SDP to be one of the globally competitive platforms operating in the world today. Built
            through a collaborative and interactive process with all city stakeholders, SDP is an embodiment of Smart
            Dubai’s efforts to reshape the way government services are structured to meet the needs of the customer.
            To deliver the SDP, Smart Dubai has pioneered a public-private partnership (PPP) with its strategic private
            sector partner, namely du (a major integrated telecommunications services provider in UAE). du contributed
            their  expertise to build a collaboratively designed  platform  that brings the  most advanced technology
            innovations on the market to support smart-city experiences for all Dubai residents, visitors, business owners
            and city decision makers.

            This new and integrated approach depends on interoperability and from the very outset it became apparent
            that no single  vendor would have the capability to entirely provide  such a holistic  and technologically
            sophisticated digital platform. As a result, this demanded not only new budget models, but new thinking from
            vendors whereby they would not be just service providers but instead strategic partners working in harmony
            with shared vision and goals.

            The adoption of a unique public-private partnership (PPP) model was therefore the most expedient and
            efficient alternative of harnessing the potential of the public and private sectors in meeting the goals of this
            groundbreaking smart-city initiative. The risks and the rewards were jointly shared by partners in a well-
            defined framework agreement.
            Private  sector partner brought extensive experience and skills in  operating  citywide platforms  and
            infrastructure. It also provides requisite sophisticated ICT skills to implement and manage the large-scale SDP
            platform and provide leading-edge services (e.g. IoT, data, etc.).






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