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Dubai moves from e-government to m-government
![]() The UAE has an amazing 120% rate of mobile penetration, and probably a boatload of cash, so it's only natural that they are the early adopters. According to the Khaleej Times, Rehab Lootah is the acting eServices director Dubai e-government. She said that "m-government had allowed Dubai Government to increase the productivity and effectiveness of public departments and improved the delivery of government information and services. It has also increased the channels for public interactions and lowered administration costs, all of which has resulted in higher levels of public participation..." Starting in 2003, SMS provided services like the following to over 7 million people: * Driver's license renewals * Traffic information * Health card renewals * Trade license renewals * Flight information * Traffic fine payment Then in 2005, the services became available at a mobile web portal, and included things like travel and financial services information, prayer timings and police information. The next goal is to have 90% of government services online by 2007. Quite an impressive application of mobile technology. |
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Very cool. Another example for the use of SMS: Here in Croatia where I am currently enjoying the last days of my vacation, you can have your bank automatically send you an SMS whenever you make a credit card transaction. The SMS would show the transaction and your overall balance. Neat way for quickly discovering CC fraud.
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