Microsoft is helping the United Arab Emirates(UAE) government achieve its vision of becoming a leader in AI. By partnering with its National Program for Artificial Intelligence to launch the AI Challenge Program initiative.
The AI Challenge Program is to accelerate the adoption of AI technology in the country. The UAE government led by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, sees AI as a pillar of its future strategies. Using artificial intelligence(AI) to shape the country’s development for the next fifty years. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed calls AI the “catalyst for the growth of global markets and new economic sectors“.
Microsoft will be supporting government organizations in leveraging AI technologies to address real life business challenges. While building strong local Emirati AI talents, shares Sayed Hashish, Microsoft UAE General Manager.
The Microsoft general manager signed the partnership with UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, at an AI expert retreat in Dubai.
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We look back at 2019 and acknowledge the year had some amazing surprises and announcements from Microsoft. Especially in the Africa and Middle East region where we focus. Let’s take you through some of these exciting moments through pictures.
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Team Athena-IO from Tunisia, came in second place at the Europe Middle East and Africa Imagine Cup regional final championship qualifying round.
Microsoft opens second Policy Innovation Centre in partnership with the University of Pretoria and the South Africa Department of Science and Technology.
Twenty technology ambassadors have graduated from the second cohort of the Microsoft Teacher Internship Program in the United Arab Emirates. The program organized in partnership with the UAE education ministry encourages the use of technology in the learning and teaching process. Enabling teachers to become technology ambassadors of tomorrow. Then empower the students to create the world of tomorrow.
Through the Microsoft Teacher Internship Program, teachers learn how to use Microsoft technologies to deliver lessons in the classroom. As well as empower students with twenty-first century skills.
Microsoft Regional Education Director, Ahmed Ameen Ashour, shares this about the program graduates.
Ahmed Ameen Ashour
Honored to announce today 20 new graduates from our Microsoft Teacher Internship program. Those teachers worked hard for 12 month learning about the best use of technology into teaching and learning. They will now be a lighthouse impacting all other teachers across the UAE. Congratulations
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Red Hat’s OpenShift will soon be live in Microsoft’s Azure datacenters located in the Africa and Middle East region. Azure customers will be able to use the container platform as a cloud service to deliver enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solutions.
Riedwaan Bassadien, Microsoft Senior Cloud Data and AI Specialist made the announcement. Speaking to developers at the Open Cloud Summit held in Johannesburg and hosted by Microsoft and Linux. He noted Openshift on Azure will be live in the South Africa datacenter.
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Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, ADDA will use Microsoft solutions in enabling the enhancement of e-services across the emirate’s public agencies. Abu Dhabi Digital Authority announced they will use Microsoft Dynamics 365, Power BI and artificial intelligence tools to build an intelligent customer-service platform for citizens.
Microsoft D365 enables government institutions to unify data and open up doors to new capabilities. That will enhance scalability and cost-effectiveness, flexibility and allow the government to innovate freely. Sayed Hashish, General Manager, Microsoft UAE explains.
“Our partnership with Microsoft will allow us to build an intelligent customer-service platform. That will fulfil the ambitions of our leaders to streamline and optimise citizens and residents requests across Abu Dhabi government entities.
Through the intelligent solutions and CRM of Dynamics 365, we shall create a seamless omni-channel experience for citizens, lubricate workflow and case management and provide stakeholders and field workers with unparalleled and unprecedented decision-making capabilities through intuitive and in-depth business intelligence.”
Excellency Saeed Al Mulla, Government Service Executive Director ADDA.
“We are a long-time partner of the Abu Dhabi government in its ambitions to elevate its e-services to peerless standards. Abu Dhabi’s leaders’ vision of a secure, confident society with a competitive, sustainable and globally open economy, is one we share.” – Sayed Hashish
Surface Hub 2S in now available to businesses and organizations in the United Arab Emirates market. Microsoft made this announcement at GITEX Technology Week 2019 taking place in Dubai. Where the company and its partner organizations are showcasing solutions and services.
Microsoft MEA Surface Business Group Director, Mirna Arif notes the device was designed with the region’s teams in mind.
“With the latest addition to our Surface family, we have built a bridge between the digital and physical workspaces, in deference to how the nature of work continues to evolve. The modern workplace demands more from employees, and cross-skilled teams collaborating continuously has become the new norm.” – Mirna Arif
Mirna Arif adds that digital transformation has essentially become the empowerment of teams. “So we have designed Office 365 to put collaboration front and centre. Letting people work together in real time from any device.”
