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Social Impact
 SDP and Dubai Data initiatives are both designed to touch the lives of people impacting them
throughout their daily lives in Dubai. Below are some examples where data and the platform will be
beneficial directly and/or indirectly for city residents:
○ For a mother, checking health data from her child’s school to determine if a flu vaccination is
required;
○ For a father, reviewing household energy consumption to conserve resources and save money
for a family vacation;

○ For a tourist, utilizing the live public transportation data to make the most out of his time spent
in the city;
○ For all commuters, enjoying reduced traffic congestion as more services are provided online;

○ For an urban planner and developer, achieving operational cost-savings into data-driven
research and development about Dubai through the data available in SDP.

 Several social services in Dubai will be made available enabling the public to benefit from it
immensely.

Environmental Impact
 SDP is designed to collect city-wide environmental data from various points across Dubai. SDP will
contain air quality, noise, pollution, energy, water, land related data among others
 SDP will contain enablers to achieve city resources efficiencies and related consumption reduction
tools which will positively impact the environment these efficiencies will be captured by using city
related data
 Digital adoption of various SDP related economic and social services in Dubai will circumvent the
need for conducting city services through traditional means by physically visiting service providers.
Hence, significant number of road trips will be avoided which in turn reduces GHG (Green House
Gas) emissions and will also reduce the stress on city infrastructure such as roads

 Urban planning will be significantly enhanced by utilizing city-wide data available from different
public sector organizations.

Hence, Smart Dubai through its flagship Smart Dubai Platform and Dubai Data Initiatives, is bringing about
radical enhancements to city leadership decision-making, operational efficiencies, and daily quality of life.

3 Conclusions

Some of the critical success factors and lessons learnt for Smart Dubai Platform and Dubai Data Initiative
include:
 Leadership:
The ambitious vision and strong drive for the achievement of the goals of Smart Dubai initiative
comes from the very top of Government with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum UAE’s
Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai leading the way. Publishing and exchanging data
in a shared platform is seen by top leadership as the key for creating seamless city experiences,
enhancing the happiness of residents and building the innovation economy. Eager to speed up the
process of opening and sharing data, a central entity, the Dubai Data Establishment, was created
under the umbrella of the Smart Dubai Office to drive this initiative and work hand in hand with
Data Providers to ensure its success. Top level leadership of strategic data providers are actively
engaged in developing policies, standards and data release plans to ensure their buy in, support and
implementation of these policies and plans. In addition, Smart Dubai leadership has played a key
role in formulating and overseeing the implementation of SDP as well as the PPP partnership
building process (leaders of partners and their senior management teams were highly engaged in
addition to leadership of various stakeholders involved in this city-wide project).

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