Digital Dubai

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below · 🔎 Last verified 2026-07-16

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Digital Dubai is the emirate's smart-government umbrella — launched as Smart Dubai in 2014, rebranded in 2021. Its DubaiNow app now bundles about 370 government and private services from 50+ entities into one platform, and an AI Lab followed in 2017.

Live 📅 since 2014 🤖 Uses AI

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

what does this mean?

The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byDigital Dubai Authority

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

Dubai's 2018–2021 Paperless Strategy cut 336 million+ sheets of paper a year, saving about 14 million work hours and AED 1.3 billion (government figures).

🏛️ Governance Digital government Artificial intelligence

Sources

↗ Digital Dubai (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.

↗ Digital Dubai — Paperless Strategy (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.

↗ Gulf News — DubaiNow adds 70 services in 2025 (press)News coverage confirming DubaiNow's current service count and usage.

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🇦🇪 Masdar City · Abu Dhabi Two UAE bets: Dubai bundled government into the DubaiNow app from 2014; Abu Dhabi built Masdar as a zero-carbon city from 2008 and stalled. 🇦🇷 Boti — WhatsApp City Assistant · Buenos Aires Own app vs borrowed app: Dubai built the DubaiNow super-app (2014); Buenos Aires put city hall inside WhatsApp with Boti (2019). 🇨🇳 City Brain · Hangzhou Two state-driven programs with self-reported wins: Dubai claims AED1.3bn saved; City Brain claims 15% faster traffic in one district.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Digital Dubai” — Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/smart-dubai/ (last verified 2026-07-16). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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