With a strong emphasis on integrating cities and services with strategies for implementing innovative services and enabling people, connections and networks, Dr. Usman Zafar, CEO DUC Consulting International & Board Advisor cloudBuy UK presented his paper today at the 21st GCC sGovernment and sServices Conference, held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Dubai.
At his session, Dr. Zafar said that for integrating the cities and services, the global governments should be prepared to embrace latest ICT modules and optimize the technological frameworks to develop the unified application platforms which can be resourceful in interlinking the cities and services with the citizens.
He said in this age of internet when information is accessed through highly refined applications, the Gulf governments in this line should also take progressive measures to develop feasible applications that could be conducive in furnishing subject related knowledge to the citizens and bring about radical transformation in the way, the data is amassed by the users. He further stated that for overcoming the present and future challenges, it is indeed important for the organizations to replace the older legacy systems with the new once and forge robust environment to help ideology of smart governance flourish in different segments of public and private sectors.
With the end of this session, Dr. Zafar invited Mr. Ronald Duncan, Chairman and CIO of CloudBuy, UK to step up on the stage and express his well insights on ‘Smart Government and Smart City Cloud Computing’. Mr. Duncan highlighted the need to have a clear vision of smart cities as well as evolving highly advanced cloud computing architecture, he further explained the need to build up the cloud risk management and disaster recovery strategies to prevent the loss of information and maintain the data privacy protection procedures for fortifying online security.
The ’21st GCC Smart Government and Smart Services Conference’ is a new step towards the changing needs and challenges that the region faces in terms of achieving excellence in smart Government infrastructure and attaining organizational transformation. The 21st edition of the conference withholds the vision of the supreme leaders of the region and around the world in developing the region and the world to be leaders in ICT regime and emerge with outstanding benchmarks for others to follow.
The 21st GCC sGovernment and sServices Conference is endorsed by the sponsorship of DUC Consulting International and some of the most reputed and well established organizations in the Middle East and across the world.