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The Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities (TRA) on Sunday hosted the 1st Forum on Data Management in Dubai. The forum is being hosted in collaboration with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) under the slogan, “Transforming data into value, expanding the IoT potential with a special focus on smart cities”.
The forum welcomed participation from a wide group of experts and decision-makers from around the world, as well as many UAE government
entities and private sector companies.
The event began with an opening ceremony which included speeches from Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, TRA Director-General, Dr Chaesub Lee, Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU, and Nasser Al Marzouqi, Chairman of the ITU-T Study Group 20 on Internet of Things and smart cities and communications.
A discussion session on ‘The role of IoT and data in smart cities’ was held, including keynote speakers Younus Al Nasser, Assistant Director-General of Smart Dubai Office and CEO of Dubai Data Establishment, Saleh Al Abdooli, CEO of Etisalat, and Osman Sultan, CEO of du. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori said, ‘The picture drawn by experts for the world in 2020 features a world interconnected by 50 billion smart devices, within a busy atmosphere with data streaming in all directions, and where billions of sensors would be communicating in digital languages to achieve an unprecedented system of services and solutions in the daily course of life.”