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has an urgent need and calls for help, the contact centre
can quickly locate the citizen, and make the support

service more readily available.

The Abu Dhabi government greatly appreciates the

importance of geospatial data. The implementation of the
My Address (Onwani) project which facilitates mobility
and emergency rescue is a showcase. Having no formal
address at the previous local street system, the new
project added a formal address and QR code to more

150 than 200,000 street signs, lampposts or buildings, while
the exact location could be obtained with a scan from a
smart phone. Currently, local schools in Abu Dhabi from

kindergarten to middle school have added GIS to their
regular courses. In Hong Kong, students can only access
GIS subjects at the university level, we are lagging behind
Abu Dhabi.

Qatar: Towards online government

When we talk about the Middle East, we have to mention
Qatar too. As the first Middle East country to host the