THELOGICALINDIAN - Smart Dubai is a government and cityled action to accomplish Dubai the smartest and happiest burghal in the apple This anniversary saw Dubais the governments acquittal aperture become blockchainbased
First Blockchain-Powered Government
The online acquittal aperture DubaiPay will now use blockchain technology for real-time adaptation and adjustment of transactions. This is addition footfall appear Dubai’s ambition of acceptable the world’s aboriginal blockchain-powered government by 2024.
Dubai’s government is currently alive on a absolute of 20 use cases for blockchain technology to accompaniment its absolute operations. Dubai’s government has cardinal partnerships with IBM and Consensys as admiral to advice them and Smart Dubai added their goals.
Smart Dubai and its government arm Acute Dubai Government Establishment (SDG) aims to drive the city’s success and all-around competitiveness via acute technology. SDG accommodate the move to blockchain in their remit.
Mira Sultan Obaid Abdul Rahman, administrator of the acute casework enablement administration at SDG, told Gulf News it affairs to access government ability by affective all affairs to blockchain. The Dubai Administration of Finance (DoF) works abaft the scenes to accredit the affairs on DubaiPay and addresses any issues and disputes. The DubaiPay aperture handles affairs from 27 government entities and a added 14 non-government entities.
Using blockchain technology developed by Avanaza Solutions, DubaiPay will now accommodate real-time ecology of affairs — admitting the absolute affairs could still booty 45 canicule to accommodate by the DoF. Mira Sultan Obaid Abdul Rahman explained:
In its aboriginal phase, two of Dubai’s government departments accept acclimated the blockchain-based reconciliations arrangement and candy a appear bristles actor transactions. More departments are accepted to participate.
Dubai is Trailblazing
At a barrage event on September 23, 2018, Dr. Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr, Director General of Smart Dubai said:
He added that blockchain is “one of the best able of these technologies, alluring added investments every year.”
Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority appear affairs for a blockchain-based agent management arrangement beforehand in the year. The better coffer in Dubai, Emirates NBD launched a blockchain-based activity to reduce cheque fraud in April 2018, and Dubai Tourism appear affairs in March 2018, to use blockchain and acute arrangement technology to check its systems.
Many locales are attractive to become acute cities abacus blockchain to their technology-stacks. Will Dubai leave the others behind? Let us apperceive your thoughts in the comments below!
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