TDRA holds introductory workshop on digital government roadmap
DUBAI, 4 hours, 22 minutes ago The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) held an introductory workshop on the digital government roadmap, which was attended by a number of representatives of ministries and government entities in the UAE. The workshop, held virtually via Zoom, aimed to highlight the digital government guiding document and roadmap 2021-2025 prepared by TDRA, which includes developing and launching the Unified Digital Platform, and transferring 100% of government services to the platform within two years. This workshop comes in light of TDRA’s launch of the UAE Strategy for Government Services and supporting policies, and the need for federal entities to adopt digital government enablers, in order to provide proactive, integrated, easy and fast digital services that exceed customer needs and expectations through a unified platform, in line with the princ
Dubai: The UAE has denied rumours of a weekend switch and confirmed that the state news agency WAM has not reported any type of information pertaining to the matter.
In response to word on the grapevine and the widespread misinformation across social networking sites in the UAE, authorities urged residents not to pay attention to the false claims allegedly made on behalf of WAM.
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“There is no truth to what is being circulated that the UAE is considering to switch the weekend, from Friday and Saturday, to Saturday and Sunday. [It is also fake news] that employees in government and federal departments will work 12 hours on Friday,” confirmed WAM.
Dubai: The UAE retains its position as the country with the fastest mobile network speed in the first quarter of 2021, according to the latest findings by Ookla.
With a download speed of 178.52 Mbps in March, the UAE overtook South Korea and Qatar in the mobile broad speedtest, continuing what it had done in January and February, with download speeds of 183.03 Mbps and 177.10 Mbps, respectively.
The Speed Test Global index assesses over 135 countries on internet speed data done on a monthly basis. Data for the index comes from the hundreds of millions of tests taken by real people using the speed test every month.
by Bajan Reporter / May 1st, 2021
When Nora Al Matrooshi was selected to join the United Arab Emirates space programme, she became the Arab world’s first woman astronaut.
Her selection – alongside male compatriot
Mohammed Al Mulla – echoes the UAE’s focus on gender equality and equal opportunities.
The country continues to incorporate more women into technology sectors, expanding their role as they gain recognition for their contributions.
Casting off stereotypes
Over the last five decades, the traditional image of a male-dominated society has changed steadily, with growing numbers of women involved in all aspects of the nation’s development. But steps to ensure equality to accelerated in recent years.