Abu Dhabi’s e-Government wins GIS excellence award

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Twenty-one entities from Abu Dhabi’s e-Government concluded a successful participation in the 2017 Esri User Conference the world’s leading Geographic Information Systems (GIS) event, which took place in San Diego, California and drew more than 15,000 specialists from 130 countries.
Abu Dhabi Systems and Information Centre (ADSIC), organised and managed all aspects of the participation, on behalf of the government entities at the conference, which coincided with the 10 year anniversary milestone of the Abu Dhabi Spatial Data Infrastructure (AD-SDI), community, a leading programme responsible for facilitating the sharing of geo-spatial data among governmental entities within different sectors.
Esri 2017 offered Abu Dhabi’s e-Government an international knowledge-sharing platform to highlight AD-SDI’s key achievements and strategies as it continues to assume an integral role in Abu Dhabi’s robust digital transformation framework.
During the conference, ADSIC, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council and the Department of Geography and Urban Planning at the United Arab Emirates University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences won awards for Special Achievements in Geospatial Systems, SAG, an annual accolade that Esri selects for geospatial applications, and it was the first time that the Abu Dhabi government receives a total of three recognitions in this category.
Rashed Lahej Al Mansouri, Director-General of ADSIC said, “The string of awards that have been secured by the Abu Dhabi government at Esri 2017 are a testament to the advanced state of geospatial systems in Abu Dhabi and its high ranking internationally.”