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Green Financial Support for Green Drivers

Strong Local Commitment   The Middle East, and especially the UAE – which aims to reduce carbon emissions by 2020 – are active early adopters of EVs. Dubai will spend millions of dirhams on incentives to have 42,000 EVs on its streets by 2030. Agencies across the board are supporting the transition to EVs, such […]


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d3: The Smartest Spot On Earth.

The Dubai Design District, or d3, prides itself in being a district that nurtures emerging local talent and providing a home for the region’s creative thinkers. Their premises are slick, their clientele equally so, and their events, arty, hip and happening. The district has been developed through careful consultation with the design community in order […]


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A Living Lab for Future Technologies

The Sustainable City (TSC) in Dubai is deploying new technologies and management systems to achieve social, economic and environmental outcomes. These systems include grid-edge technologies, driverless transport, vertical farming, and smart metering to name a few. Deploying, testing, and integrating these systems in The Sustainable City – or any other community – requires an innovation […]


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Designed In The UAE, Made For The World

At Manarati, we believe a smart city is one that improves the quality of life and happiness of its citizens by providing a smart infrastructure that enables connectivity and other smart use cases based on the utilisation of data. The key criteria for a successful smart city is that it should blend digital connectivity with […]


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A Smart Silicon Oasis

DSOA is building Dubai’s first integrated smart city project – the very high-tech Dubai Silicon Park. Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority is the Dubai Government’s proverbial laboratory for technology and smart initiatives. Over the years, many projects, in collaboration with other government entities, such as the RTA and DEWA, have been launched and successfully implemented, with […]


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Transforming the UAE into the Ecotourism Destination of Choice

The UAE government has taken measures to preserve the country’s rich biodiversity and develop the infrastructure needed to provide visitors with a fulfilling experience in a natural setting. Emerging in the late 1980s, ecotourism is a form of specialty travel defined by The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) as “responsible travel to natural areas which conserves […]