20 Dubai government bodies to offer services on mobiles by October.
Dubai eGovernment and the Emirates Identity Authority on Monday launched the ‘My E-identity’ initiative which will enable the public to avail of the services of 20 government bodies through the mobile phone or the Internet by using their Emirates ID card from October.
This was announced at a press conference in Dubai on Monday. Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director General of Dubai eGovernment, and Ali Al Khouri, Director General of the Emirates Identity Authority, and Wissam Lootah, Assistant Director General of Dubai eGovernment, were present.
The initiative is part of the attempt to move to smart government and aims to bring government services round-the-clock through the mobile phone within two years.
The objective is to enable businessmen to avail of all government e-services through the internet or a smart phone using a single username and password.
Dubai eGovernment, in coordination with all agencies of the government of Dubai, currently offers more than 1,500 electronic services to customers in various sectors (health, education, electricity, water, communications, licensing cars etc. ), through the websites of the government agencies.
The customer needs to pre-register his user name and password with each government body separately.
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