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Dubai Ranked Top Smart Centre In Arab World For New Technology Development

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Dubai,Emirate City of the United Arab Emirates is making giant strides in the Arab world. The tourism economy based and skyscraper studded capital city of the United Arab Emirates has been ranked as the best smart centre in the Arab world for the development of creativity, innovation, and the delivery of new technology, according to the recently-released second edition of the Smart Centre Index (SCI).

With just a place behind  the first placed Tel Aviv in the Middle East, Dubai rose 17 places to 17th position among the world’s top 51 cities. Disappointingly, and interestingly to know, on the top 51 cities in the world list, there was no other Arab country that made it into the top 51 cities list. On the jumper squad, the emirate was the third highest jumper in the rankings after Paris and Guernsey, which jumped 25 and 19 places, respectively.

Before the compilation of this list, a total of 131 commercial and financial centres were thoroughly researched for the index, of which 51 cities that span the globe are included in the index, which has been developed by Z/Yen, a London-based commercial think-tank. Among the sub-indexes, Dubai is ranked 11th in creative intensity, 23rd in innovation support and 26th in delivery capability.

The Institute for Management Development’s (IMD) 2020 Smart City Index also recently ranked Abu Dhabi and Dubai as the smartest cities in the region. The region’s financial and trade hub has been keen to support the sector of government excellence, creativity, innovation, and scientific research.

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In order to strengthen its position further, following instructions from the Dubai Emirate ruler, the Dubai government on Sunday allocated six per cent of its expenditure to develop performance and instill a culture of excellence, innovation, and creativity.

Dubai is truly basking from all cylinders, remember, earlier in December, the UAE emerged among the top five most connected countries in the world, according to the DHL Global Connectedness Index.

“Innovation for its own sake is worthless. The goal is to improve society and the economy by addressing the challenges we face together, whether in the life sciences in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, engineering in the development of new materials and technologies that reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, or new digital platforms that address poverty through providing services to people who do not have access to traditional financial services,” said professor Michael Mainelli, executive chairman of Z/Yen Group.

Globally, New York has taken first place in the index, with London dropping to second and Singapore retaining its third place. Three of the top ten places in the ranking are taken by US centres, and three are taken by UK centres, with Oxford and Cambridge rising in this edition of the index. Chinese centres did not feature as strongly as expected, and scored on average lower for Innovation Support than their overall rating, it said. Surprisingly, two Indian cities, New Delhi (50th) and Mumbai (51st) also made into the top 51 list. This goes to show that there are still hope left for all the current third-world countries. If India can make it to the top 51 cities in the world with its two cities, then other developing countries can also.

Dubai is a place to reckon with thanks to the visionary leadership of the Dubai Ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, this wonderful ruler is integrity personified. He is great pace setter, and visionary leader with unmatched resilience, determination, and strength. His Rulership has position Dubai from a poor backward gulf suburb to a top global goto place, and one of the world’s top 10 tourist destinations. This revered ruler of Dubai has overseen the constructions of so many capital intensive mega infrastructure projects that have made Dubai outstanding in all ramifications, amongst which is the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, and also the world’s most luxurious hotel, the Burj Al Arab, etc,. With this kind of leader, Dubai will continue to grow in leaps and bounds till the end of the world, Soon , Dubai will be among the top 10 smart centres (cities) in the world.

Another emerging smart centre in the UAE is Abu Dhabi, But her ruler has to do more.

 

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