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KUWAIT: The Touristic Enterprises Co (TEC) is celebrating the ninth anniversary of HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah by illuminating the Kuwait Towers with images of the Amir’s achievements and other
national themes. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Mohammed Bin Rashid to launch The
Museum of Future Government Services
Ban Ki-moon and Klaus Schwab main speakers
DUBAI: The Organizing Committee of the
Government Summit announced that as many
as 87 countries will be participating this year
in the biggest event of its kind in the world to
discuss governments of the future as well as
the critical changes taking place at the global
level in the development of government services.
The Committee also announced that during the Summit, His Highness Sheikh
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice
President and Prime Minister of the UAE and
Ruler of Dubai, will open The Museum of
Future Government Services, which includes
an exhibition on new technologies that can
provide future government services as well as
applications that will shape a new generation
of future services.
Names of the top speakers from the UAE
and other countries for the third edition of the
Summit, which will be held in Dubai from
February 9 to 11, 2015, were also revealed by
the Committee. His Highness Sheikh
Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown
Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme
Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, will
deliver the keynote speech at the Summit.
The Summit, organized under the theme
‘Shaping Future Governments’, will also be
addressed by HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown
Prince of Dubai. In addition various sessions
will be addressed by HH Lt General Sheikh Saif
Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister
and Ministry of Interior; Sheikh Mansour Bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Presidential Affairs; HH Sheikh
Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Foreign
Minister and Chairman of National Media
Council; and HH Sheikha Manal Bint
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Over 100 speakers
The summit will have more than 100 speakers from outside the UAE, including Ban Kimoon, United Nations Secretary-General;
Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive
Chairman of the World Economic Forum;
Queen Rania of Jordan; Deputy Prime Minister
of South Korea; President & CEO of Samsung
Electronics Co; and Apple co-founder Steve
Wozniak as well as speakers from international
universities and organizations.
A group of international organizations will
also participate in the summit to discuss the
future of governments. These include the
United Nations, World Bank, Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, and
World Economic Forum, in addition to international universities, academics, researchers and
representatives of governments from 87 countries.
Among the main activities, the winners of
two global awards will be announced during
the summit. The event this year will also be
noted for its Museum of Future Government
Services, in addition to a platform for innovation in the government sector, which will be
the biggest of its kind. Sessions have been
lined up to discuss key issues in educational,
health and technology sectors as well as smart
cities, government services and innovation. A
dedicated session has been created for ‘Mr.
Watson’, the smartest robot in the world. The
Summit will also feature round tables for Arab
government officials and international organizations.
“Government Summit 2015 will be differ-
put in more efforts than the private sector to
focus on research and development as well as
measures to improve its service delivery practices since it is more intrinsically connected
with citizen happiness and fulfilment of aspirations,” Al Gergawi added.
“The participation of His Highness Sheikh
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the
Summit, which gathers participants from 87
countries, also emphasizes our national priorities on government development and the
importance of focusing on efforts to make the
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum on
the last day of the Government Summit. ‘Best
m-Government Service Award’ received more
than 400 entries from UAE Federal and Local
governments as well as governments from the
Arab region and the world.
The Summit includes a session on ‘How the
digital revolution is reshaping our economy’,
which will discuss the role of technology in
managing businesses, and methods of delivery of the government services. The session
will be led by Professor Erik Brynjolfsson,
Ban Ki-moon
Klaus Schwab
Sir Ken Robinson
ent, innovative and outstanding. His Highness
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is
closely following the work of the Organizing
Committee. The summit will benefit immensely from the participation of His Highness
Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for
the first time this year as the main speaker,
offering a unique opportunity for the global
gathering to gain insights on the successful
experience of His Highness in urban development, government management and community development policies,” said His Excellency
Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of
Cabinet Affairs and Chairman of the
Organizing Committee of the Government
Summit.
“ The Government Summit this year
includes a large number of speakers and a
variety of sessions, events and exhibitions
aimed at achieving the vision of His Highness
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to
enhance the position of the Summit as the
most prominent global platform for government development and to make the UAE a
global benchmark in this area. His Highness
believes that one of the most important keys
to achieving stability and wellbeing of the
community is improving the performance of
governments. Policy changes are more important than changing individuals. His Highness
has also stated that the public sector should
UAE the leading nation in shaping the new
generation of governments of the future,” H.E.
Al Gergawi said.
Describing the overwhelming interest in
the Government Summit this year, HE Al
Gergawi said the Organizing Committee had
to stop accepting requests for registration
after the number of participants increased
from 2000 last year to more than 3000 last
week. The Summit will also host more than
200 journalists to cover the three-day event.
Prior to the official launch of the
Government Summit, the final competitions of
‘ The UAE Drones for Good Award’ will be
organized on Februar y 6 and 7 in Dubai
Internet City in presence of professionals,
media representatives and international delegations as well as representatives from national and international universities. The award,
launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed
Bin Rashid Al Maktoum during the second
Government Summit last February, is the
largest-ever award for exploring civilian applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
technology for improving people’s lives. It
received more than 800 entries from 57 countries.
Director of MIT Centre for digital Businesses in
the USA. A session on ‘Future of Online
Education’ will discuss the latest innovations in
education and their importance in shaping
the future of global education.
‘How Schools Kill Creativity’, another session, will be presented by Sir Ken Robinson,
Creativity and Education Expert from the
United Kingdom. The session will discuss the
need to shift from a united curriculum to a
new curriculum designed as per the capabilities of each student. The session will explore
the main role of curriculum in implanting a
sense of innovation in students.
In a session titled, ‘Healthcare Innovation:
Investing in the Next Breakthrough Idea’,
prominent experts and inventors will speak
about the latest innovations in healthcare that
will change the lives of individuals and
improve the services provided by governments around the world in the healthcare sector.
In another session, ‘Cities of the Future’,
Kent Larson, Director of the Changing Places
Research Group and Co-director of the City
Science Initiative at the MIT Media Lab in the
USA, will highlight the futuristic designs of
cities that will accommodate the largest number of people and achieve greater sustainability, environment protection and satisfaction of
people.
‘Best m-Government Service Award’
The winners of ‘Best m-Government Service
Award’ will be honoured by His Highness
Mariana Mazzucato, Innovation Economist,
will reveal during a session titled ‘ The
Entrepreneurial Government’, flaws in some of
the innovation theories associated with government and private sectors. The session will
call for establishing governments with capable
leadership and the ability to take risks, and
highlight the potential of governments to be
the biggest drivers of innovation in the current
economy.
In one of its sessions on ‘How Artificial
Intelligence Can Improve Government
Services’, the summit will host ‘Watson’, the
world’s smartest robot, developed by IBM at a
cost of more than AED 10 million. The robot
defies the smartest human brains with its ability to answer questions after reading 200 million pages. During the session, Dr. Bernard S.
Meyerson, Vice President of Innovation at IBM
USA, will review Watson’s capabilities in language processing as well as its learning and
analytical skills. The session will try to answer
the questions: “Is it possible for human intelligence to overtake ‘Watson’? Can we replace
the medical and educational cadres in governments with robots like Watson?”
Women leaders
A women leaders session will look at the
participation of Arab women in decision-making and their contribution to creating a new
future for the people.
The summit will discuss through two of its
sessions the human journey to seek happiness. Jin Lim, CHO of Delivering Happiness,
will discuss in the first session how organizations can achieve sustainability by integrating
the concept of happiness in the business model, and how career can be a major factor in the
achievement of individual happiness.
In the second session Dan Gilbert,
Psychology Professor at Harvard University
and an expert on happiness, will explain the
scientific perspective to the concept of happiness, describing the human ability to create
happiness instead of searching for it.
The Government Summit also includes a
session on ‘ What Makes a Good Country
Great?’, led by Simon Anholt, a specialist in
policy, who will explain his theory of intermediate states, and how these countries can be
transformed into major countries by strengthening their competitiveness and expanding
their global reach.
The Innovation Platform, a key event on the
sidelines of Summit, includes an exhibition of
new technologies capable of providing government services of the future. The exhibition
is aimed at explaining the concept of innovation in government development.
The Summit will also host in one of the sessions a high school student aged 14, who has
invented a device that can convert carbon
dioxide into oxygen. During the session, the
young inventor will speak on the key incentives required for innovation in education.