Six Dubai entities cut paper usage by half
DEWA, DUBAI POLICE, RTA, DED, DLD, DTCM SHOW THE WAY
Six government entities in Dubai are already 57 per cent paperless just six months in to the city’s quest to become all-digital by December 12, 2021, it was announced yesterday.
Dubai Police, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Department of Economic Development (DED), Dubai Land Department (DLD), and the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), used to consume 64 million sheets of paper, but have now limited that to 37 million.
Smart Dubai General Director Dr Aisha Bint Butti Bin Bishr said if this is what can be achieved in the first phase of integration, the private sector will surely follow before deadline.
“In these kind of initiatives, the government leads,” Dr Aisha told Gulf News, on the sidelines of a press conference to announce first phase progress of paperless integration at the Smart Dubai office in Dubai Design District yesterday.
Target exceeded
“Once you stop requesting vendors and suppliers to provide you with physical documents, then internally they have to change their system and say ‘OK, the government wants ■ us to contact them digitally, we need to have this integration.’
“If we manage today to have a full sector like tourism paperless by 2019 (DTCM is currently 60 per cent paperless), then that means other sectors will surely follow. It is now up to every government entity to lead their sector. I’m very with the positive start.
“We ended phase one exceeding our target of 50 per cent, and have averaged 57 per cent, so it means our target is achievable even before the December 12 2021 deadline,” said Dr Aisha. happy