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The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has unveiled its newly-redesigned website, which they say is business-friendly, innovative, accessible and smart.
The upgraded website supports browsing via all smart devices. It is more user friendly, and offers value-added services and much faster browsing for Dubai and the region’s business community as all the content can be shared on social media networks at the click of a button.
It contains a text to speech plugin in Arabic and English for people with vision impairment which can read the entire website content to the user and has a text enlargement feature for the visually impaired.
Hamad Buamim, President and CEO of Dubai Chamber, said that in today’s fast-paced business scenario, the business community is looking for information sources that are easy and quick to access. Therefore, the renovation of the Chamber’s website emphasises rich content, is easy to navigate and packed with regular updates, thus catering to the Government’s directives of providing smart and innovative services to enhance performance and competitiveness of the business community.
Buamim said that the chamber serves over 190,000 companies registered as members, while offering strategic economic information to all types of international companies considering setting up a base in the emirate. It offers relevant information regarding economic interests as part of the Chamber’s strategic goals of supporting development and creating a favourable business environment.
He added, “The number of visitors to our website increased by 44% between 2011-2015 as their numbers jumped from 671,000 in 2011 to 976,000 by the end of 2015. We expect the number of visitors to our new website to rise to 1 million by the end of this year, especially in light of the larger viewership supported by modern devices of communication.”
The website also hosts Chamber TV, a first-of-its-kind Online Video Channel for the Gulf region that showcases Chamber-related news and business events along with the activities of the organisation.