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TheUnitedArabEmirateshasprovidedarule
for the relationship of creative interaction
between leadership and people, leading to
a pioneering development experience based on
enabling the people from active participation in
all sectors of work, mainly in the decision-making
process.
The competitiveness is an integral part of the
Emirati leadership. This issue will present the
UN E-Government Survey on the E-government
development. The survey revealed that the UAE has
achieveddistinguishedresultsintheE-Government
Development Index, as it ranked first at the Arab
level and East Asia, ranked third in Asia, and eighth
globally.
In an interview with «Smart Government»,
Richard Kirby, a senior interregional adviser on
e-government and knowledge management of UN
Department on economic and social, pointed out
that the citizen participation in decision-making
is a key pillar in the UAE. He considered that the
basis of success depends on the citizen interaction
with the government policies and trends that shall
mainly target the citizen interest and easily provide
services to himas soon as possible. He underscored
that the UAE government i working to ensure
greatest happiness and satisfaction to citizens.
The UN expert has praised the UAE›s plans, which
makes its way with insight and confidence in order
to transform to the smart services, noting that the
UAE managed to realize this accomplishment
through working on long-medium-short term
schedules.
However, several specialists warned through
report in this Issue No. 34 of the spread of several
smart applications, which pose risks for adults and
children as well.
The report emphasized that the dissemination of
extremism and hatred of extremism, hatred and
violencehasno longerneed to traditional platforms,
after the spread of smart applications and social
media programs. Those who have special agendas
that contradict with mind, logic and history used
the developed technology to spread their extremist
dais concepts, after they have developed their
technological weapons to play this role.
Technical experts have set off alarm bells through
«Smart Government», warning of the spread of
smart free applications that adversely affect the
behaviors and thoughts of children and adults and
contribute the spreadof violence andhatred culture
among them, feed them with subversive thoughts,
use them to publish false news and promote them
to burglarize the intellectual property rights.
Out of the keenness of «Smart Vision» to cope up
with the latest technological developments in the
world, it drew up a report about the game, which
swept the world recently, which is «Pokemon Go».
The report highlighted a warning issued from the
Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA),
after the game has turned from a joke like April
fool into a global phenomenon. The players came
out of their rooms to the open air, police stations,
governmental entities and parks to chase, seize,
train «Pokemon» and compete with them by using
smart phones.
The TRAwarned users of smart phones and devices
in the state that the criminal elements might use
electronic games that depend on sharing of the
geographical location, such as «Pokemon Go» to
breach users› privacy or to ambush them in remote
places to attack them or rob their properties.
Furthermore, this issue also contains another group
of report s and local and global news in the fields
of IT, and communications fields, programs and
applications of smart phones and tablet devices and
the latest application of smart government.
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