Month: July 2021

DUBAI, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) announced the first-week programme of its summer camp, taking place from 1st to 7th August, 2021, under the theme “Our Summer is Culture & Creativity”, inviting children and adolescents to participate in a wide range of innovative and purposeful activities that will expose them to arts, life skills and entertainment.

The activities of the programme’s first week, hosted by Hatta Public Library, will include physical art workshops in Arabic from 15:00 to 17:00, stimulating creativity for children aged 6 to 12 years and encourage them to recycle in different ways. The workshops will cover the art of making dolls easily from cloth and cups, expressive faces, and artistic water bottles, as well as a flower planting workshop that will introduce them to the basics of farming.

At Umm Suqeim Library, students aged 6 to 12 years will enjoy physical art workshops in Arabic from 10:00 to 12:00 throughout the week. The programme will include the “Preparation for Expo” workshop, introducing children to the largest global event in the UAE, accompanied by artistic activities, in addition to an innovative drawing workshop with new methods and tools, writing stories, forming paintings with threads, and learning about the art of caricature.

Al Mankhool Library has prepared for children aged 6 to 12 years a set of physical workshops in Arabic held daily from 11:00 to 13:00, through which its activities will include planting seeds, reading various stories about agriculture and its importance, making and colouring different forms of clay, in addition to the “Little Chef’s” workshop, which includes interesting competitions about vegetables and fruits; a doll-making workshop; and a free-drawing workshop, through which children will learn the basics of using watercolours and forming their favourite painting; as well as making animal models using origami.

At Al Safa Art and Design Library, adults aged 18 years and over will enjoy a physical workshop on 1st August on “The Art of Feng Shui”, during which participants will learn about the impact of place on an individual’s feelings, accompanied by a workshop on writing using positive energy vocabulary. On the other hand, children aged 6 to 12 years will participate in physical workshops on the art of recycling and its importance, the art of designing decorations, storytelling, and mental focus. All the workshops will be offered in Arabic and English from 11:00 to 12:00.

Children at Al Twar Public Library will enjoy physical workshops in Arabic held from 11:00 to 12:00, and from 15:00 to 16:00. The workshops will feature a theatrical performance that will comprise the reading of a play and the acting of its characters to develop participants’ talents in theatrical performance. Also being offered are art workshops for making penguins out of paper, the colour wheel, making paper hats, reading stories and writing.

Al Rashidiya Public Library will also welcome children aged 6 to 12 years with physical workshops in Arabic daily from 14:00 to 15:00, whose activities will vary between awareness of healthy eating, making rosaries using simple and easy tools, recycling and utilising the available materials to make various art forms for decoration. In addition to the reading of various books on the arts of handicrafts, making covers of various stories and books, and the steps to make candles using natural resources. In addition, children aged 9 years and above can join a workshop on caricature drawing on 7th August from 11:00 to 13:00.

At Hor Al Anz Public Library, children aged 6 to 12 years will join a set of physical workshops in Arabic, daily from 14:00 to 16:00, during which they will learn the art of mosaics and enrich their knowledge about the UAE through a three-dimensional drawing of the UAE flag, in addition to workshops for telling stories and making modes of transportation (cars, buses and ships) using cardboard as well as forming different models using origami. On 4th August, children will enjoy a physical and virtual workshop on International Cinema Day, during which the organisers will talk with the children about their choice of films, followed by the screening of “One Per Person”, accompanied by a competition to draw their favourite movie characters.

Source: Emirates News Agency

DUBAI, Mohammed Ibrahim Al Zarooni, Deputy Director of the Information and Digital Government Sector at the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), affirmed that the UAE is among the world’s fastest countries in deploying 5G networks, which facilitated the implementation of the latest projects across health, transport, education and logistics.

In a statement to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Al Zarooni said that the capabilities provided by 5G networks will accelerate the deployment of tech solutions that enable the establishment of smart cities, including smart transportation, self-driving vehicles and unmanned aircraft.

They are also paving the way for the utilisation of drones in cargo and mail shipment, and for remote surgery, which will help save lives, especially in emergencies, he added, noting that AI solutions will be used in analysing big data and developing smart services, which will boost happiness levels in the UAE community.

Al Zarooni explained that the TDRA is continuing to develop the infrastructure required to utilise the latest AI solutions, and highlighted the UAE government’s efforts towards developing the world’s best integrated and flexible government services ecosystem. In 2020, the UAE created the position of Chief of Government Services to oversee the development of the government services system through customer-centric programmes that help enhance the efficiency of services.

Furthermore, the UAE government launched the 2021-2025 UAE Government Services Strategy, setting policies that ensure the provision of world-class government services and drive the country’s digital transformation in the next two years.

On global drivers of future services, Al Zarooni said that there are projections of a coming important strategic shift that will tip the balance of power globally, as AI systems are expected to contribute US$16 trillion to the global GDP in 2030, and renewable energy expected to account for 50 percent of the world’s energy needs.

These and other major transformations need to be dealt with proactively and innovatively by utilising cutting-edge tech solutions to leverage and ensure optimal management of the opportunities they create, he continued.

Elaborating on the future of the UAE’s government services, Al Zarooni said that five main pillars were identified to shape the future of its services. These include building trust and partnerships between the government and society with all data to be made available to the private sector; providing seamless around-the-clock access to services from anywhere; developing services that enhance the quality of life; making government online services more proactive and personalised; and ensuring better governance of services by designing proactive policies and legislation, he explained.

He further noted that a study of the expected impact of the UAE’s new vision for government services showed that it will help increase the UAE’s GDP by 8 percent, a fruit of the partnership between the government and the private sectors, which will create more jobs and investment opportunities, in addition to boosting the efficiency of government services by 90 percent.

Speaking of the UAE’s success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic, Al Zarooni said that the UAE’s forward-looking digitisation plans enabled its smooth transition to remote work and distance learning, adding that the availability of over 6,000 digital government services and solid e-commerce infrastructure across all sectors played a huge role in maintaining the safety of members of UAE residents and citizens.

Source: Emirates News Agency