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The UAE Cabinet launched an
expanded World GovTechioneers
Race, a three-category annual award designed to acknowledge government technology pioneers who provide global solutions to common global challenges.
The award was launched to
motivate government entities to promote creative and smart government initiatives and partnerships that would aim to provide innovative, smart solutions to help resolve common global challenges.
Following the expansion of its current scope, the award will now include a global virtual hackathon called ‘Blockchain Virtual GovHack’, aimed at experimenting with new technologies to produce outstanding applications designed and developed by students and start-ups from across the world under the ethos of hacking for good.
The Race will also feature ‘Best Emerging Technologies in Government’, an award for governments that are experimenting with emerging technologies to provide government services more efficiently and effectively, and have proven results showing how they have created greater public value and transformed the lives of people.