Smart Infrastructure MENA

The world roughly produces over two billion tonnes of municipal solid waste every year. This is the amount of garbage that can fill over 800,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. In the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) alone, the picture of municipal waste management is not so pretty. By 2025, the total waste generated across the GCC is expected to touch 164 Mn MT per annum from 128 Mn MT in 2019. The existing landfilling strategies are not adequate to tackle the waste efficiently, according to reports.

As part of the series of continuous digitisation efforts by the Dubai Government , Smart Dubai has collaborated with the UAE Zakat Fund to launch a new and secure Zakat payment service on the government service application DubaiNow during the Holy Month of Ramadan.

The business community of Dubai can have access to 50 smart services offered by the Dubai Chamber of Commerce through its website and mobile applications. The services include everything from certificates of origin, attestation, ATA Carnets and credit reports, among many others.

In all the 17 surveyed markets, a majority of consumers said their shopping habits have changed during the pandemic.

The Academy Company for Information Communication Technology (ACICT), the technological investment arm of the Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), has launched a strategic partnership with Logix, a leading company in smart transformation and information security, to launch the largest smart and secure educational platform in Egypt and the Arab World.