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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation

Figure 16 Industry creation action areas

3 Thought leadership
In this pillar, Dubai aims to lead the global thinking on blockchain technology and become the hub for blockchain
intellectual capital and skill development. For this purpose, it has set five key action areas as follows (Figure 16):
ƒ Skill development: Dubai aims to become the regional and global hub for blockchain skill development
by offering the most comprehensive and frequent training programmes aimed at blockchain coders,
policy makers and strategists and project managers.
ƒ Intellectual capital: Dubai will create and share intellectual capital related to its blockchain adoption
through the development of case studies for each of its city pilots. It will also commission cutting edge
research that would support the evolution of the technology.
ƒ Blockchain speaker series: Dubai will host blockchain experts and speakers on a regular basis in order to
stimulate debate and discussions around the most pressing and controversial issues surrounding the
adoption of blockchain technology on a city level.
ƒ International Blockchain Award: Dubai will recognize the best global city applications of blockchain and
reward those cities for taking the initiative and pushing the innovation boundaries.
ƒ Academic sector activation: Dubai will heavily engage schools and universities in all blockchain activities
such as pilot development, training, speaker events and intellectual capital building.

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