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The GISC Department Showcases Geo AI at the Global AI Show December 2024
The GISC Department Showcases Geo AI at the Global AI Show

The GISCD participated in the Global AI Show, where the center showcased its leading projects leveraging geospatial artificial intelligence technologies to enhance decision-making processes and aut...

Dubai Municipality Utilizes Advanced Technology to Photograph Parks Using Drones December 2024
Dubai Municipality Utilizes Advanced Technology to Photograph Parks Using Drones

As part of its efforts to promote environmental sustainability and utilize modern technologies, the GISC Department has announced the completion of an innovative project to photograph nine major pa...

Dubai Municipality Highlights Innovation at GeoWorld Summit November 2024
Dubai Municipality Highlights Innovation at GeoWorld Summit

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, participated in the GeoWorld Summit held as part of the Big 5 Global exhibition in Dubai. As the event’s main sponsor, Dubai Municipality showcase...

DM Showcases Its Geospatial Innovations at the GeoWorld Summit November 2024
DM Showcases Its Geospatial Innovations at the GeoWorld Summit

HE Suhail bin Mohammed Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Energy and Infrastructur​, visited the Dubai Municipality booth at the GeoWorld Summit, held during the Big 5 exhibition in Dubai. HE was brief...

Celebrating GIS Day 2024: Toward a Bright Future in Innovation and Development November 2024
Celebrating GIS Day 2024: Toward a Bright Future in Innovation and Development

Under the theme “Visualize, Analyse, and Realize GIS World,” the Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center Deaprtment organized the GIS Day 2024 event at Al Shindagha Museum. The event broug...

GeoBuiz Europe Summit 2024 November 2024
GeoBuiz Europe Summit 2024

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD, participated in the GeoBuiz Europe Summit 2024, which brought together leading experts and specialists in geographic and digital technologies. Ahmed Al...

#Community_Challenge initiative November 2024
#Community_Challenge initiative

As part of the #Community_Challenge initiative launched by the Ministry of Community Development, the GISCD ​at Dubai Municipality participated in an event aimed at promoting Emirati identity and f...

The Annual Gathering of GISCD 2024 November 2024
The Annual Gathering of GISCD 2024

The GISCD at Dubai Municipality distinguished itself by organizing its annual 2024 forum in an exciting atmosphere at Dubai Safari Park. Employees enjoyed a day full of enthusiasm, adventure, and e...

Connected Construction Conference Middle East 2024 October 2024
Connected Construction Conference Middle East 2024

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, participated in the “Connected Construction Conference Middle East 2024​” which focused on discussing the latest innovations in the field of digit...

4th Edition Women Leader's Summit 2024 October 2024
4th Edition Women Leader's Summit 2024

Dubai Municipality, represented by employee Fatima Al Marzouqi, participated in the 4th Edition Women Leader's Summit 2024. The event brought together elite women leaders from various sectors with ...

Dubai Municipality Showcases its Key Digital Services and Smart Systems at “GITEX Global 2024” October 2024
Dubai Municipality Showcases its Key Digital Services and Smart Systems at “GITEX Global 2024”

Dubai Municipality participated in the “GITEX Global 2024” exhibition with a range of its advanced digital projects across multiple sectors, highlighting the use of AI in GIS and presenting the lat...

Honoring Innovation October 2024
Honoring Innovation

As part of the activities of honoring partners ceremony​ of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) in Dubai, held during GITEX 2024, Eng. Mohammed Al Zarooni, Dep...

Dubai Municipality highlights its efforts in digital transformation during GITEX 2024. October 2024
Dubai Municipality highlights its efforts in digital transformation during GITEX 2024.

The Municipality’s stand at GITEX 2024 welcomed numerous visitors and delegations from various entities and sectors, both from within the country and abroad, as well as university and school studen...

Infrastructure & Utilities 3D Map October 2024
Infrastructure & Utilities 3D Map

The Geographic Information Center Department continues to work on the 3D Services and Infrastructure Map, an advanced digital twin platform that enables the storage and analysis of surface and subs...

Towards an Innovative Future: Maitha Al Nuaimi Commends the Efforts of Dubai BPS Team. October 2024
Towards an Innovative Future: Maitha Al Nuaimi Commends the Efforts of Dubai BPS Team.

Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Director of the GISCD celebrated with the project team of the “Dubai BPS” at the center, in recognition of their significant efforts during the project’s development. She pra...

3rd Middle East Asia Leadership Awards October 2024
3rd Middle East Asia Leadership Awards

Eng.​ Maitha Al Nuaimi, Director of the GIS Center at Dubai Municipality, participated in the 3rd Middle East & Asia Leaders Awards Ceremony. During the event, she presented a range of pioneering p...

Outstanding Initiative Award in the Construction Sector October 2024
Outstanding Initiative Award in the Construction Sector

HE Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality honored the team behind the "Dubai BPS” for their achievement in the Leading Initiative category​. HE praised the ongoing efforts of the e...

Al Sa'afaat
Al Sa'afaat" and "Digital Twin are pioneering projects shaping the roadmap for a sustainable future at WETEX 2024.

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Energy in Dubai, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA) and HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of DSCE MD...

Dubai Municipality showcases its achievements at the Digital Construction Summit September 2024
Dubai Municipality showcases its achievements at the Digital Construction Summit

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD participated in the Digital Construction Summit, where the center presented a topic under the title ​​"BIM to Digital Twin​" The presentation focused on...

Dubai Municipality Unveils Innovative Solutions at the 2024 ITS World Congress and Exhibition September 2024
Dubai Municipality Unveils Innovative Solutions at the 2024 ITS World Congress and Exhibition

Dubai Municipality participated in the ITS World Congress 2024, showcasing to visitors the latest innovations and smart solutions that contribute to enhancing sustainability in the Emirate of Dubai...

Promoting Geospatial Innovation at DEWA Academy September 2024
Promoting Geospatial Innovation at DEWA Academy

في إطار مبادرة "رحلتك الجيومكانية"، قام فريق إدارة مركز نظم المعلومات الجغرافية في بلدية دبي بزيارة أكاديمية هيئة كهرباء ومياه دبي بهدف تعريف الحضور بخدمات المركز وأبرز مشاريعه، بما في ذلك نظام الع...

Your Geospatial Journey Initiative: Promoting Geospatial Innovation in Dubai’s Schools Institutions September 2024
Your Geospatial Journey Initiative: Promoting Geospatial Innovation in Dubai’s Schools Institutions

The GIS Center Team at Dubai Municipality had visited Hind Bint Maktoum School as part of "Your Geospatial Journey" initiative, which aims to introduce the center's services and present Makani Addr...

Envisioning the Future of Construction through the Metaverse September 2024
Envisioning the Future of Construction through the Metaverse

The Geographic Information Systems Center participated in a panel discussion titled "The Future of Construction The Metaverse" as part of the MEAEC BuildTechXchange 2024 summit. During the session,...

Cake Decorating Workshop in Celebration of Emirati Women's Day August 2024
Cake Decorating Workshop in Celebration of Emirati Women's Day

The Youth Team at the GIS Center organized a special event in celebration of Emirati Women's Day, featuring a cake decorating workshop as part of an initiative aimed at breaking the daily routine a...

Enhancing Geospatial Awareness of Geospatial Systems and Projects August 2024
Enhancing Geospatial Awareness of Geospatial Systems and Projects

The GISCD organized a series of specialized workshops aimed at enhancing the awareness of Dubai Municipality employees regarding the leading geospatial systems and projects managed by the departmen...

Introduction to Deep Learning Applications and Remote Sensing August 2024
Introduction to Deep Learning Applications and Remote Sensing

The GISCD participated in the Deep Learning Camp 2024 program in cooperation with Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), where a presentation titled "Introduction to Deep Learning and Remote Sen...

"Reimagining Hatta: A Step Towards Sustainable Development and Digital Innovation"

The Geospatial Field Survey Team at the GISCD achieved a significant milestone by re-mapping the Hatta region using Geospatial Scanning Vehicle (GeoLidar). This achievement is part of Dubai’s ongoi...

GIS Engagement Fair July 2024
GIS Engagement Fair

The GISCD at Dubai Municipality organized the "GIS Engagement Fair", which is a new opportunity to communicate with industry experts from various fields and will be held periodically throughout the...

Meeting with university students within the Future Competencies Program July 2024
Meeting with university students within the Future Competencies Program

Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Director of the GISCD welcomed a group of Emirati university students from various universities and fields within UAE​ as part of the summer training program "Future Competen...

ESRI UC 2024 July 2024
ESRI UC 2024

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD, participated in the Esri Conference held from July 15 to 19, 2024. This conference is a prominent global event in the field of GIS aimed at bringing to...

Participation in the Youth Skills Day July 2024
Participation in the Youth Skills Day

In celebration of World Youth Skills Day, the GISCD represented by the GeoHub Incubator, participated in a special event organized by Dubai Municipality. The event aimed to highlight the role of yo...

Hello Summer Activity July 2024
Hello Summer Activity

The Youth Team in the GISCD organized the "Hello Summer" initiative, which included the children of the department's employees in a day full of activities and entertainment events. This initiative ...

Center’s Participation in the Digital Business Transformation Conference July 2024
Center’s Participation in the Digital Business Transformation Conference

A distinguished participation from Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD at the DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION Conference. where the employee Asma Al Ali delivered an outstanding presentati...

GISCD Wins First Place in Organizational Evaluation at Dubai Municipality June 2024
GISCD Wins First Place in Organizational Evaluation at Dubai Municipality

The GISCD​​ has achieved a unique accomplishment by winning first place in the institutional evaluation at Dubai Municipality. This reflects excellence and innovation in the field. The award serves...

Sheikha Shamsa Bint Hasher Al Maktoum Crowns the Happiness Champions Football Team June 2024
Sheikha Shamsa Bint Hasher Al Maktoum Crowns the Happiness Champions Football Team

Sheikha Shamsa bint Hasher Al Maktoum crowned the GISCD Team for their victory in the Happiness Football Championship. This initiative, organized by the Building Regulation and Permits Agency, whic...

A delegation visit from the Ministry of Finance to the GISCD June 2024
A delegation visit from the Ministry of Finance to the GISCD

As part of its efforts to enhance cooperation and knowledge exchange, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center at Dubai Municipality received a delegation from the Ministry of Finance in Dub...

The Participation of GISCD in the Digital Future Forum June 2024
The Participation of GISCD in the Digital Future Forum

The GISCD participated in the Digital Future Forum, where they took part in two prominent discussion panels. The first panel addressed the topic of "Being prepared for a GEN AI world" in which the ...

Exchange of Experiences and Insights at the Here Partner Day Conference June 2024
Exchange of Experiences and Insights at the Here Partner Day Conference

In line with its commitment to sharing expertise, experiences, and the latest technologies to enhance sustainable development in the region, the GISCD participated in the Here Partner Day Conferenc...

Dubai Municipality Contributes to Enhancing Future Strategies in Dubai Government June 2024
Dubai Municipality Contributes to Enhancing Future Strategies in Dubai Government

In collaboration with the Dubai Future Foundation, the GIS Center Department represented by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi participated in the 2nd semi-annual round of discussions for the Dubai Government. ...

Dubai Municipality showcased its global leadership at SDSC 2024 June 2024
Dubai Municipality showcased its global leadership at SDSC 2024

The Dubai Municipality represented by the GISCD, participated in this prominent platform that brings together researchers and experts in smart technology, big data, and their applications for devel...

Urbanscapes Middle East Summit 2024 June 2024
Urbanscapes Middle East Summit 2024

Dubai Municipality, represented by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Center participated at the Urbanscapes Middle East 2024 Summit. Representatives from the center gave presentations on the...

Dubai Municipality Unveils Digital Twin Initiatives at the Construction Technology Festival 2024 June 2024
Dubai Municipality Unveils Digital Twin Initiatives at the Construction Technology Festival 2024

Dubai Municipality represented by the GISCD participated in the Construction Technology Festival 2024, unveiling its ambitious plans to transform legacy buildings into dynamic digital twins. During...

GITEX AFRICA 2024 May 2024
GITEX AFRICA 2024

As Dubai Municipality has accustomed us to its proactive participation in global conferences, exhibitions, and forums, the Municipality participates in "GITEX Africa" 2024, represented by Eng. Mait...

A delegation visit of
A delegation visit of "Prototypes of Humanity" initiative to GeoHub

In a demonstration of Dubai's pioneering commitment to innovation and sustainability, a delegation from the "Prototypes of Humanity" initiative, under the patronage of HH Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohamm...

The Semi-Annual Gathering of the GISCD May 2024
The Semi-Annual Gathering of the GISCD

The GISCD celebrated its employees on Friday, May 24, 2024, during the center's semi-annual gathering. The event began with a speech by Eng. Maitha Al-Nuaimi, the Center's Director, in which she th...

Your Geospatial Journey Initiative May 2024
Your Geospatial Journey Initiative

​​As part of the "Geospatial Journey" initiative, the center's team completed a series of awareness workshops targeting institutions and educational entities in the emirate. The goal was to introdu...

Dubai Municipality showcases the role of digital twin in enhancing emergency & crisis management May 2024
Dubai Municipality showcases the role of digital twin in enhancing emergency & crisis management

Dubai Municipality participated in the Critical Communications World, presenting a comprehensive overview of using data and digital twins in emergency and crisis management. The presentation covere...

Awareness Workshop: Techniques for Extracting Geographic Features Using AI May 2024
Awareness Workshop: Techniques for Extracting Geographic Features Using AI

The GISCD participated in the awareness workshops organized by the Building Regulation & Permits Agency, to highlight their projects and key initiatives. The center's employees presented an advance...

The BIM Conference 2024: Activating the Role of Geospatial Data in Dubai's Digital Transformation April 2024
The BIM Conference 2024: Activating the Role of Geospatial Data in Dubai's Digital Transformation

Dubai Municipality participated in the Building Information Modeling Conference 2024, where the GISC presented an opening speech highlighting the importance of integrating building information mode...

Dubai Municipality visits Esri’s headquarter April 2024
Dubai Municipality visits Esri’s headquarter

In its continuous pursuit of excellence, Dubai Municipality represented by Eng. Mohamed Al Tayer, Director of the Geospatial Systems Section at the GISCD, responded to an invitation from Esri to vi...

GISCD Participates in the Facilities Management Conference April 2024
GISCD Participates in the Facilities Management Conference

As part of knowledge exchange, professional skill development, and networking, Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center, participated in a Facilities Management Conference. The center's emp...

Enhancing collaboration in research & innovation: Visit to AUD April 2024
Enhancing collaboration in research & innovation: Visit to AUD

As part of collaboration efforts with universities and educational institutions in Dubai, a delegation from the GISCD visited the American University in Dubai to introduce the Geospatial Innovation...

Transforming pedestrian pathways towards sustainability: Applying Artificial Intelligence for high-Accuracy line extraction. March 2024
Transforming pedestrian pathways towards sustainability: Applying Artificial Intelligence for high-Accuracy line extraction.

The AI team at the GISCD achieved a unique milestone by utilizing AI technology & drone imagery to extract pedestrian lines with high accuracy in the Dubai Downtown area.The project utilized a mach...

Your Geospatial Journey Initiative: Educational Workshops for School Students March 2024
Your Geospatial Journey Initiative: Educational Workshops for School Students

As part of the Geospatial Journey Initiative launched by the GISCD at Dubai Municipality, the center's team began hosting educational workshops in collaboration with educational institutions to int...

Future Vision: Launching the GeoHub incubator strategy for the next three years March 2024
Future Vision: Launching the GeoHub incubator strategy for the next three years

In line with the Dubai government's directive to transform Dubai into a fully smart model, and the Municipality's commitment to providing the finest and best services according to innovative global...

MENA Geospatial Forum 2024 February 2024
MENA Geospatial Forum 2024

The GISCD represented by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Director of the GISC participated in the MENA Geospatial Forum 2024, which served as a platform to expand geospatial horizons, exchange experiences, ...

The IDC Middle East Summit 2024: A platform for Integrating Geographic Information Technologies with AI February 2024
The IDC Middle East Summit 2024: A platform for Integrating Geographic Information Technologies with AI

The GISCD participated in the IDC Middle East Summit 2024, where the summit witnessed an active presence by industry leaders and leading institutions in the field of technology. The summit highligh...

The 3rd Annual Digital Twin Conference February 2024
The 3rd Annual Digital Twin Conference

The Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD participated in the 3rd Annual Digital Twin Conference, by presenting its project on 3D infrastructure maps as part of the Digital Twin projects cha...

The Gulf Engineering Forum February 2024
The Gulf Engineering Forum

Dubai Municipality represented by the GISCD participated in the 25th Gulf Engineering Forum, which serves as a platform for exchanging ideas and experiences to develop smart and sustainable enginee...

"Generative Artificial Intelligence Applications Workshop"

In the context of the GISD efforts towards enhancing skills and improving geospatial performance, the center's employees participated in an introductory workshop titled “Generative Artificial Intel...

Geospatial Excellence: Dubai Municipality Receives ISO 19115 Certificate for Geospatial Metadata January 2024
Geospatial Excellence: Dubai Municipality Receives ISO 19115 Certificate for Geospatial Metadata

The GISCD at Dubai Municipality has achieved a new milestone by meeting the requirements of ISO 19115 standard, and receiving a recognition from the International Organization for Standardization (...

Brainstorming Session Opening Perspectives for Development January 2024
Brainstorming Session Opening Perspectives for Development

The GISCD organized a brainstorming workshop for its employees to listen to their suggestions, innovative ideas, and geospatial solutions aimed at building a new system to enhance the center's perf...

Navigating Excellence: crafting the future of Geohub December 2023
Navigating Excellence: crafting the future of Geohub

The employees of the GISCD, along with the department's manager, Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, gathered for an exceptional workshop to shape the future of the geospatial innovation platform, GeoHub. The w...

Environmental Innovation Journey: The GISC presented Dubai Digital Twin project and climate change challenges at COP28 conference. December 2023
Environmental Innovation Journey: The GISC presented Dubai Digital Twin project and climate change challenges at COP28 conference.

In its pursuit of building a sustainable and environmentally friendly Dubai, the GISC represented by Engineer Maitha Al Nuaimi and Dubai Digital Twin project team, showcased their efforts in enviro...

Big 5 Global: Leadership and Innovation in Serving the Community December 2023
Big 5 Global: Leadership and Innovation in Serving the Community

As part of the activities of the Big Five Global 2023, the largest event in the field of construction and development in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, where Dubai Municipality represente...

Geospatial Information Technology Leadership: Dubai Municipality Inspires the Future with the Dubai Digital Twin Project. November 2023
Geospatial Information Technology Leadership: Dubai Municipality Inspires the Future with the Dubai Digital Twin Project.

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISCD participated in the Esri UAE User Conference 2023, the largest in the region for geospatial information systems. The conference included local and inter...

Developments & Achievements of BuildingSmart Organization’s UAE Division November 2023
Developments & Achievements of BuildingSmart Organization’s UAE Division

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GISC showcased the achievements of the local branch of the International buildingSmart UAE​. Hosted and overseen by Dubai Municipality, this highlights the un...

MoU between Dubai Municipality and the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority November 2023
MoU between Dubai Municipality and the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority

Dubai Municipality, in cooperation with the Dubai Aviation Authority, signed an MoU within the framework of the “Dubai Horizons” project, concerned with planning routes and locations of airports an...

GIS Day 2023 November 2023
GIS Day 2023

The GIS Center Department organized its annual meeting with its strategic partners from government, semi-governmental, and private entities, celebrating GIS Day at Al Etihad Museum. The event highl...

Indoor Mapping by Innovation Solutions November 2023
Indoor Mapping by Innovation Solutions

​The GISCD team, in collaboration with Sigma Enterprises LLC, conducted an internal survey of the Sewerage Pumping Station in Al Barsha South 3 using the Flyability Indoor Inspection drone and the ...

Vendors Open Day for private companies in inspection field November 2023
Vendors Open Day for private companies in inspection field

In support of the Inspection Committee's missions at Dubai Municipality and in pursuit of adopting the best technologies, the GISC organized the first open meeting for specialized suppliers in smar...

Dubai Municipality shapes the future: The First Comprehensive Geospatial Digital Twin in Collaboration with Al-Futtaim November 2023
Dubai Municipality shapes the future: The First Comprehensive Geospatial Digital Twin in Collaboration with Al-Futtaim

​The GISCD at Dubai Municipality has completed the implementation of the digital twin project for the Dubai Festival City area. They created and designed 3D model of the area, including details of ...

The Innovative use of GIS to support breast cancer awareness October 2023
The Innovative use of GIS to support breast cancer awareness

In conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the GISCD organized an awareness workshop presented by employee Amina Abdel Fattah titled "The Innovative Use of GIS in Supporting Breast Cancer A...

Dubai Municipality attracts delegations from all over the world at GITEX 2023 October 2023
Dubai Municipality attracts delegations from all over the world at GITEX 2023

Within the GITEX Week 2023 activities, Dubai Municipality platform welcomed many visitors and delegations from various local and international entities and institutions. The GISCD presented importa...

The comprehensive agreement with Esri October 2023
The comprehensive agreement with Esri

As part of GITEX 2023 activities, the GISCD, represented by Maitha Al Nuaimi, Director of GISC, signed a comprehensive agreement with Esri Company, represented by Mr. Muhammad Issa, Regional Manage...

GITEX Global 2023: Innovative Technologies and Digital Services in the field of Artificial Intelligence October 2023
GITEX Global 2023: Innovative Technologies and Digital Services in the field of Artificial Intelligence

The GIS Center Department participated in GITEX Global Week 2023 with a variety of important projects and innovative technologies and digital services related to utilizing AI to detect construction...

Enhancing cooperation with the Directorate General of Civil Defense Dubai October 2023
Enhancing cooperation with the Directorate General of Civil Defense Dubai

​As part of enhancing cooperation and developing the use of modern technologies to support civil defense in the Emirate of Dubai, the GISC conducted a field visit to the General Directorate of Civi...

Visit of Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Islamic Institute to the GISC October 2023
Visit of Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Islamic Institute to the GISC

As part of the GISC’s efforts to promote geospatial awareness among individuals, organizations, and educational institutions, a delegation of students from the Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Islamic Insti...

GeoHub visit to the GIS Club at the American School Dubai September 2023
GeoHub visit to the GIS Club at the American School Dubai

I​n a step to enhance interaction and collaboration in the field of Geographic Information system (GIS), The GeoHub team from the Geographic Information System Centre’s management conducted a field...

Strengthening Geospatial Cooperation: A Russian delegation visited the GISC September 2023
Strengthening Geospatial Cooperation: A Russian delegation visited the GISC

The GISCD welcomed a Russian delegation from the federal service for state registration, Cadaster and Cartograph (Rosreetr’s) to enhance cooperation and knowledge exchange in the field of GIS. Eng....

Workshop: Simplifying Nutrition and Building a Healthy Body September 2023
Workshop: Simplifying Nutrition and Building a Healthy Body

The GISCD organized an awareness lecture in collaboration with nutrition expert/ Abdullah Al-Awadhi, titled “Simplifying Nutrition”. The aim was to promote health awareness and a healthy lifestyle ...

The GISCD is shaping the future of Dubai’s Digital Twin September 2023
The GISCD is shaping the future of Dubai’s Digital Twin

The Geographic Information System Center organized a workshop titled (Dubai Digital Twin) in the presence of Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, GISC Director and a number of strategic partners from government ...

Fire prevention principles and skills August 2023
Fire prevention principles and skills

The GISC Department in collaboration with the Dubai Civil Defense organized an awareness workshop on fire prevention principles and skills, which lasted for two weeks and targeted the center's empl...

Foreseeing the future in GIS August 2023
Foreseeing the future in GIS

As part of the International Youth Day activities, the Youth Council in Dubai Municipality, in cooperation with the GIS Youth team organized a panel session titled "Exploring the Future in GIS", wh...

Dubai Horizons' Workshop August 2023
Dubai Horizons' Workshop

The GISCD in Dubai Municipality organized an introductory workshop on the updates of Dubai Horizons project, in the presence of a group of the center strategic partners. The project team has presen...

GISCD Semi-Annual Meeting July 2023
GISCD Semi-Annual Meeting

The GISCD held its semi-annual meeting on Friday, July 28, 2023, that was chaired by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, GISC Director, with the participation of the Center's staff. The meeting aimed to enhance...

Makani workshop: Dubai Civil Defense July 2023
Makani workshop: Dubai Civil Defense

In a continuation plan of spreading the geospatial awareness of the year 2023 and to enhance the aspects of geospatial sciences among society members, the GISD in cooperation with DCD organized an ...

MoU with DIEZ June 2023
MoU with DIEZ

Dubai Municipality and Dubai Integrated Economic Zones sign an MOU in the field of Dubai Horizons. The MOU aims to enhance cooperation and partnership between the two parties in a way that contribu...

Best Geospatial Practices June 2023
Best Geospatial Practices

The GISCD welcomed a delegation from Public Services Department in Ras Al Khaimah to discuss the most important geospatial services and initiatives provided by the center. This visit comes to enhan...

SLA with Dubai Petroleum Establishment June 2023
SLA with Dubai Petroleum Establishment

As part of the GIS Center goals to increase cooperation and effectively strengthen its strategic partnership relations, Dubai Municipality and Dubai Petroleum Establishment signed a service level a...

Customers Forum 2023 June 2023
Customers Forum 2023

The GISCD , in cooperation with the Customer Happiness Department in Dubai Municipality organized a forum for customers, where the GISC employees presented the important services provided in the ce...

Contact Center Show Middle East 2023 Conference May 2023
Contact Center Show Middle East 2023 Conference

The GISCD in Dubai Municipality participated in the Contact Center Show Middle East 2023 conference, which aims to discuss the best unified communication strategies and solutions in the field of bu...

MoU in the field of Dubai Horizon May 2023
MoU in the field of Dubai Horizon

Dubai Municipality and Dubai Civil Aviation Services sign an MOU in the field of Dubai Horizons. The MOU aims to enhance cooperation and partnership between the two parties in a way that contribute...

Enhancing cooperation with the Airports Security Department - Dubai Police May 2023
Enhancing cooperation with the Airports Security Department - Dubai Police

The GISCD held a meeting with the Airport Security Department in Dubai Police, on Friday 19/05/2023, where they discussed the importance of cooperation between the two parties and how to benefit fr...

The Korean delegation visit to the GISCD May 2023
The Korean delegation visit to the GISCD

HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, and Eng. Maryam Al Muhairi, CEO of Buildings Regulation and Permits Agency, welcomed a delegation from the Association of Metropolit...

GeoConnected Event May 2023
GeoConnected Event

As part of the GISCD’s initiatives to support geospatial activities that aim to strengthen partnerships with the geospatial community, the center organized the GeoConnected live event with the pres...

Geospatial Awareness workshop in cooperation with Ordnance Survey May 2023
Geospatial Awareness workshop in cooperation with Ordnance Survey

The GISCD in cooperation with Ordnance Survey organized an online workshop titled (Service Center year 3 Technical Solution) with the aim of raising the level of geospatial maturity for Dubai gover...

Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Islamic Institute visit to GISCD May 2023
Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Islamic Institute visit to GISCD

The GISCD in Dubai Municipality welcomed a delegation from Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Islamic Institute, which included 35 students, on Wednesday, 10/5/2023. This visit comes within the framework of t...

Dubai Digital Authority visit to GISCD May 2023
Dubai Digital Authority visit to GISCD

Eng. Maryam Al Muhairi, CEO of the Buildings Regulation and Permits Agency, and Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting Director of GISCD, welcomed HE Younis Al Nasser, Assistant Director General at Smart Du...

The Imagery Seminar May 2023
The Imagery Seminar

The GISCD in Dubai Municipality welcomed a delegation from Esri Company as part of the EEAP Technical Consultation and Technical Support Program, where Mr. Keith Nightlinger from Esri gave a presen...

Awareness workshop at De Montfort University Dubai March 2023
Awareness workshop at De Montfort University Dubai

In compliance with the GISCD plan to spread geospatial awareness and support the academic sector, The GIS Center has presented a workshop titled "Smart City Services Enhancement through Geospatial ...

Participation in the Construction Week Technology March 2023
Participation in the Construction Week Technology

Within the Construction Week Technology activities, which aims to discuss the construction industry development,​ the GISCD in Dubai Municipality participated by giving a workshop presented by Ahme...

World Open Data Day 2023 March 2023
World Open Data Day 2023

As part of the World Open Data Day activities , the GISC Department represented by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting Director of the Center has participated in the panel discussion organized by the RTA...

Dubai Municipality Reads with the young explorer March 2023
Dubai Municipality Reads with the young explorer

The GISC Department celebrated the “Reading Month” by participating in (Dubai Municipality Reads with the Young Explorer) activity in cooperation with the Mohammed bin Rashid Library in Dubai. The ...

Online meeting with (KAUST) March 2023
Online meeting with (KAUST)

As part of the GISCD efforts to enhance the strategic partnership with various sectors and groups of society, the center organized an online meeting with King Abdullah University of Science and Tec...

2nd Annual Digital Twin Conference March 2023
2nd Annual Digital Twin Conference

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality participated in the 2nd Annual Digital Twin Conference 2023, which was held on Tuesday, March 14, 2023. The conference discussed the most important topics ...

GIS: Promising Future Prospects March 2023
GIS: Promising Future Prospects

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality welcomed Dr. Linda Loubert, from Morgan State University in US, the researcher of GIS science and its most important use areas. Eng. Maitha Al-Nuaimi Actin...

An introductory workshop for Makani App: Dubai National School-Al-Twar March 2023
An introductory workshop for Makani App: Dubai National School-Al-Twar

In a continuation plan of spreading the geospatial awareness in the academic community, the GISCD organized a workshop to introduce Makani App in cooperation with educational institutions in the em...

GISCD Participation in the Innovation Month February 2023
GISCD Participation in the Innovation Month

In conjunction with the month of innovation, and under the slogan (UAE Innovates 2023), the GISCD in Dubai Municipality participated by providing interactive workshops related to geospatial infrast...

The 10th Plenary Meeting of the Regional Committee of UN-GGIM for the Arab States February 2023
The 10th Plenary Meeting of the Regional Committee of UN-GGIM for the Arab States

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality participated in the 10th Plenary Meeting of the Regional Committee of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for the Arab States, hosted b...

Leadership and Change Management workshop February 2023
Leadership and Change Management workshop

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality has organized a motivational workshop for its employees titled "Leadership and Management of Change" presented by Fatima Al-Amiri, GIS Services Officer, an...

Global Webinar titled
Global Webinar titled "Digital Twin for Future Cities”

The GISCD, in cooperation with the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), held an online seminar titled "Digital Twin for Future Cities". The seminar aimed to discuss the latest standards for establishi...

The GISCD welcomes a delegation from Dubai International Project Management Forum January 2023
The GISCD welcomes a delegation from Dubai International Project Management Forum

A delegation from the Dubai International Project Management Forum visited the GISCD in Dubai Municipality, to overview the prominent geospatial projects and initiatives in the center which is part...

Participating in the World Future Energy Summit January 2023
Participating in the World Future Energy Summit

The GISCD, represented by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting Director of the Center participated in the Smart Cities Forum during the World Future Energy Summit, which sheds light on modern technologies...

Delegation Visit of Federal Geographic Information Center to GISCD January 2023
Delegation Visit of Federal Geographic Information Center to GISCD

The GISCD welcomed a delegation from the FGIC in the presence of HE Hamed Khamis Al Kaabi, Director General of the Center, and Eng. Anwar Mohamed Al Shammari, Executive Director of the Geospatial I...

The Annual Meeting of the GISCD January 2023
The Annual Meeting of the GISCD

The GIS Center Department held its annual meeting on Friday, January 13, 2023, at the Dubai Safari Park. The meeting was chaired by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting Director of GISCD, where she highli...

ISO 19115 Certificate January 2023
ISO 19115 Certificate

The Geographic Information Center Department has successfully obtained the recognition of the International Standards Organization (ISO) in implementing the ISO 19115 metadata standard. The ISO 191...

GIS Day 2022 November 2022
GIS Day 2022

In celebration of international GIS Day, the GISC Department in Dubai Municipality organized the annual event in coordination with the Mohammed bin Rashid Library. The event was attended by a numbe...

GeoAI and Deep Learning with ArcGIS Workshop November 2022
GeoAI and Deep Learning with ArcGIS Workshop

As part of the GISCD’s efforts to keep up with the latest research, studies and geospatial sciences in the field of artificial intelligence, the GISCD hosted Mr. Mansour Raad, Global Chief Technolo...

Online Webinar: Indoor & Mobile Mapping November 2022
Online Webinar: Indoor & Mobile Mapping

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality participated in the online webinar organized by the Emirati Society of GIS and Remote Sensing of Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, which aims to gather gov...

Umm Al Quwain University visit to Dubai Municipality November 2022
Umm Al Quwain University visit to Dubai Municipality

The GIS Center Department welcomed a delegation from Umm Al Quwain University to introduce students to the GIS field, and brief them about the Geospatial Business and Innovation Incubator (GeoHub),...

GITEX 2022: Innovative projects and digital solutions in the field of Metaverse October 2022
GITEX 2022: Innovative projects and digital solutions in the field of Metaverse

Under Dubai Municipality stand, The GIS Center Department participated in GITEX Technology Week 2022 with a variety of important projects and innovative technologies related to AI and metaverse, wh...

The GeoHub Participation in GITEX 2022 October 2022
The GeoHub Participation in GITEX 2022

As part of GITEX Technology Week 2022, the Geospatial Business and Innovation Incubator in Dubai Municipality (GeoHub) participated under Dubai SME - Hamdan Program for Creativity and Innovation. A...

MoU with DANS October 2022
MoU with DANS

Dubai Municipality and Dubai Air Navigation Services sign an MOU in the field of the Dubai Horizons project and the Dubai Dome project during GITEX 2022. The MOU aims to enhance cooperation and par...

Strengthening cooperation with Ordnance Survey October 2022
Strengthening cooperation with Ordnance Survey

Dubai Municipality represented by Eng. Maryam Al Muhairi Acting CEO of the Buildings Regulation and Permits Agency, and Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi Acting Director of GISC Department, signed two contract...

The final stage of the HD Maps project for self-driving cars October 2022
The final stage of the HD Maps project for self-driving cars

The GISC Department in Dubai Municipality has completed the final stage of the HD Maps project for self-driving cars, during which the stages of collecting panoramic image data, cloud points, in ad...

Al Hajri inaugurates the CMC in Dubai Municipality October 2022
Al Hajri inaugurates the CMC in Dubai Municipality

HE Eng. Dawoud Al-Hajri Director General of Dubai Municipality inaugurated the City Management Center, which aims to facilitate the management of city operations and response mechanisms to emergenc...

Visit of Oyoon Project Team to GIS Center Department September 2022
Visit of Oyoon Project Team to GIS Center Department

The "Oyoun Project" team visits the GIS Center Department in Dubai Municipality to learn about the best practices in the geospatial field, and the most important services, projects and geospatial s...

Panel Discussion: Advancing Application Modernization and Cloud Transformation September 2022
Panel Discussion: Advancing Application Modernization and Cloud Transformation

The GIS Center Department, represented by Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting Director of GIS Center Department, participated in a session on application development and cloud transformation, along with ...

BIM and Digital Twin Middle East Conference and Expo 2022 September 2022
BIM and Digital Twin Middle East Conference and Expo 2022

The GIS Center Department in Dubai Municipality has participated in the BIM and Digital Twin Middle East Conference and Expo 2022, which was held from 20-21 September. Eng. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Acting...

Technical Study of Al Awir Roads using AI Technology September 2022
Technical Study of Al Awir Roads using AI Technology

In line with the UAE strategy for artificial intelligence, which represents a new stage of the country’s development and progress towards global leadership, the GIS Center Department in Dubai Munic...

Cooperation between Dubai Municipality and Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate September 2022
Cooperation between Dubai Municipality and Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

Dubai Municipality and Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate discussed the mutual cooperation between the two parties during a meeting held at the headquarters of the Dubai Festival City Mall. The meeting c...

SLA for the Single Window System with Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation September 2022
SLA for the Single Window System with Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation

Dubai Municipality and Ports, Customs and Free Zone sign a service level agreement that handles incidents and service tickets of the Single Window System for Building Permits in the Emirate of Dub...

The Single Window System SLA with Du August 2022
The Single Window System SLA with Du

Dubai Municipality and Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) sign a service level agreement that handles incidents and service tickets of the Single Window System for Building Permit...

Municipal Professions Initiative August 2022
Municipal Professions Initiative

The GISC Department participates in the municipal professions initiative launched by Dubai Municipality. The initiative aims to introduce school students to the Municipality’s fields and sectors an...

The Resilience Center visit to GISC Department August 2022
The Resilience Center visit to GISC Department

The Resilience Center in Dubai Police visits the GIS Center Department to view the best practices in the geospatial field and the most important projects and technology that serve the center’s stra...

The Single Window System SLAs August 2022
The Single Window System SLAs

Dubai Municipality signs two service level agreements with Dubai Development Authority and Dubai Integrated Economic Zones. The agreements handle incidents and service tickets of the Single Window ...

Strengthening Cooperation with the Department of Transportation Security August 2022
Strengthening Cooperation with the Department of Transportation Security

The GIS Center Department and the department of transportation security in Dubai Police discussed the possibilities of joint cooperation between both parties and the feasibility of implementing the...

Specialized workshops in the field of GIS July 2022
Specialized workshops in the field of GIS

The GIS Center Departemnt organizes introductory workshops on GIS sciences and its importance, and the most important applications and projects implemented in the center. A number of training works...

The GISC Department and RTA <br> discuss the most prominent AI techniques July 2022
The GISC Department and RTA
discuss the most prominent AI techniques

Dubai Municipality and RTA had discussed the most prominent uses of 3D GeoAI technology and different ideas of supporting and developing the transportation field. Examples of 3D GeoAI technology is...

The launch of the 2nd phase of the HD Maps project for self-driving cars July 2022
The launch of the 2nd phase of the HD Maps project for self-driving cars

The second phase of the field trials for the HD Maps project for self-driving cars has been launched. This phase includes field exploration, installing and reading of ground control points using gl...

UAE AI Camp 2022 July 2022
UAE AI Camp 2022

The GIS Center Department in cooperation with the National Program for Artificial Intelligence, participated in the UAE AI Camp 2022. The center welcomed a number of school and university students ...

Al-Hajri inspects the
Al-Hajri inspects the "Update of the Base Map and Inventory of Geospatial Government Assets" project

HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director-General of Dubai Municipality visited the GIS Center, to overview the "Update of the Base Map and Inventory of Geospatial Government Assets" project" after the pro...

SLA with ESE June 2022
SLA with ESE

In order to effectively strengthen strategic partnership relations according to an institutional system and within the framework of the mutual endeavor to provide appropriate solutions, infrastruct...

Dubai Municipality launches HD Maps project for autonomous vehicles June 2022
Dubai Municipality launches HD Maps project for autonomous vehicles

The​ GIS Center of Dubai Municipality has launched a project to design highly precise digital maps for autonomous vehicles in Dubai, which are perceived to constitute most of Dubai’s transportation...

Dubai Base Map Updating - Dubai Emirate assets updating June 2022
Dubai Base Map Updating - Dubai Emirate assets updating

The project team of “Updating the Base Map and Inventory of Government Assets” of the GIS Center has successfully completed the tasks of Dubai Base Map Updating - (Ortho Imagery and Assets) which c...

Launching the Unified Building Permits Platform in Dubai May 2022
Launching the Unified Building Permits Platform in Dubai

Dubai Municipality has launched an electronic system designed to provide all building licensing services and related transactions, through a unified platform for all licensing authorities in the Em...

The 11th Gulf Municipal Works Conference May 2022
The 11th Gulf Municipal Works Conference

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality participated in the 11th Gulf Municipal Works Conference, which was held in Kuwait. Maitha Al Nuaimi, Head of the Geographic Information Network Section at the ...

GIS Software Enterprise Licensing Agreement May 2022
GIS Software Enterprise Licensing Agreement

Dubai Municipality has signed an agreement with Esri company that specializes in geospatial software, in order to provide technical consultation, software and training in the field of geospatial in...

MENA Construction Summit 2022 May 2022
MENA Construction Summit 2022

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center has participated in the MENA Construction Summit 2022, which discussed the role of innovation and technology in building sustainable future cities a...

GeoHub Accreditation May 2022
GeoHub Accreditation

The Geospatial Business and Innovation Incubator is concerned with supporting the projects of university students and entrepreneurs in the geospatial field, in addition to Municipal and Engineering...

2D Cartographic Base Maps April 2022
2D Cartographic Base Maps

According to the international best practices, Data section in the GIS Center has successfully completed designing 2D cartographic base maps (Vector Tiles) on ArcPro software. 14 maps were designe...

The smart search feature in Makani Smart Addressing System March 2022
The smart search feature in Makani Smart Addressing System

The GIS Center has added a smart search feature for the indoor units on Makani Smart Addressing System. This feature adds more depth and accuracy in the field of addressing to reach each unit insid...

The Pioneering Awards Ceremony March 2022
The Pioneering Awards Ceremony

The GIS Center was honored by HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, in the Pioneering Awards Ceremony for 2021. Al Hajri honored the employees led by Eng. Maryam Almheiri...

Discussion session with Sharjah Municipality August 2021
Discussion session with Sharjah Municipality

The GIS Center organized a discussion session with Sharjah Municipality through visual techniques, in the presence of DM engineers from the Building Permits Department. The session covered a topic ...

Strengthening cooperation relations with MOEI August 2021
Strengthening cooperation relations with MOEI

In light of the center's continuous efforts and strategy aimed at developing and raising the level of quality of services provided, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality has signed a service level a...

Consolidating cooperation with DCAA July 2021
Consolidating cooperation with DCAA

In line with the GIS Center’s strategic efforts to strengthen its relations with various government entities in the emirate, and in order to provide the best geospatial services, latest smart solut...

Strategic cooperation with FCSC July 2021
Strategic cooperation with FCSC

In light of the GIS’s efforts and commitment to provide the best services and geospatial data, the Center has signed a service level agreement (SLA) with the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics ...

Optimism... is Your Only Choice July 2021
Optimism... is Your Only Choice

As part of the GIS Center’s initiatives to develop employees’ skills in development and self-build, and urge them to think positively about various aspects of life, the GIS Center organized a virtu...

Classifying Dubai Assets in a Comprehensive Geospatial Dictionary June 2021
Classifying Dubai Assets in a Comprehensive Geospatial Dictionary

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality has developed an integrated system for classifying Dubai assets in a comprehensive geospatial dictionary. This move comes within the framework of the directives...

Maitha Al Nuaimi on the list of rising stars for 2021 June 2021
Maitha Al Nuaimi on the list of rising stars for 2021

Maitha Al Nuaimi, Head of the Geographic Information Network Section at the GIS Center, has been recognized as one of the top 20 'GOV Youth-GCC Rising Stars 2021', at the 2nd Annual GOV Youth Summi...

SLA with Du June 2021
SLA with Du

In order to effectively strengthen strategic partnership relations according to an institutional system, Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center signed a service level agreement (SLA) with...

SLA with DLD June 2021
SLA with DLD

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, signed a service level agreement (SLA) with the Dubai Land Department in the field of geospatial infrastructure (GeoDubai), as an extension of the...

The first buildingSMART UAE webinar June 2021
The first buildingSMART UAE webinar

The buildingSMART UAE Chapter organized an introductory webinar session in the GIS Center for companies and individuals who are interested in the field of BIM and digital transformation in the buil...

The Construction Technology Award 2021 June 2021
The Construction Technology Award 2021

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center received the Construction Technology Award 2021, during the 3rd Construction Technology Festival Conference which was held in Dubai between 1st and ...

Training workshop for IACAD May 2021
Training workshop for IACAD

Within the framework of our continuous efforts to spread geospatial sciences and support the various government entities in the emirate, the GIS Center conducted a training workshop for IACAD emplo...

HeliConference Dubai 2021 May 2021
HeliConference Dubai 2021

​The GIS Center at Dubai Municipality has participated in the activities of the HeliConference 2021, which was held at the Emirates Flight Taining Academy, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed...

Discussion session: Makani for Units project May 2021
Discussion session: Makani for Units project

The GIS Center held a virtual discussion session with the Dubai Airport Free Zone "DAFZA", in the presence of Dubai Police, Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services and Dubai Civil Defense, to pres...

Virtual meeting with Sharjah Municipality May 2021
Virtual meeting with Sharjah Municipality

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with several departments in Sharjah Municipality, to present the best practices followed in the geospatial field. During the meeting, the...

Geospatial Training for Dubai Police May 2021
Geospatial Training for Dubai Police

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to enhance the cooperation with various entities. The GIS Center organized a geospatial training for Dubai Police employees; in order to train them ...

Virtual meeting with DAFZA April 2021
Virtual meeting with DAFZA

As part of the GIS Center's efforts to enhance and develop strategic partnership, support technology, innovation and implement smart systems and applications, the GIS Center held a virtual meeting ...

Virtual Meeting with Dubai Holding April 2021
Virtual Meeting with Dubai Holding

As part of a series networking meetings with partners that aim to enhance cooperation and participation in building a sustainable city, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meet...

Virtual Meeting with Etisalat April 2021
Virtual Meeting with Etisalat

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to present the best practices in the field of technology and geographic information systems, the center organized in coordination with the Waste Man...

Esri Developer Summit 2021 April 2021
Esri Developer Summit 2021

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality participated in the 2021 Esri's Developer Summit that was held from April 6th to the 8th. The summit included several sessions and workshops that focused on cre...

Honoring the team of the Unified Map Project April 2021
Honoring the team of the Unified Map Project

HE Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, honored the team of the Unified Map Project, which is considered one of the most strategic projects of the emirate. The project was imple...

Virtual Meeting with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure April 2021
Virtual Meeting with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure

The GIS Center held a virtual meeting with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure; to discuss ways of cooperation between the two parties. During the meeting, the center's strategy, organization...

GIS Center's employees visited Dubai Customs March 2021
GIS Center's employees visited Dubai Customs

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to enhance cooperation with various entities and to identify the work processes and tasks that help in conceptualizing the development of a system t...

MoU with DEWA March 2021
MoU with DEWA

Based on the wise leadership’s vision and the strategic guidance of Dubai’s Emirate and the keenness to strengthening cooperation and coordination between Dubai Municipality and DEWA in the geospat...

Maitha Al Nuaimi among the list of 50 influencers in the geospatial field globally March 2021
Maitha Al Nuaimi among the list of 50 influencers in the geospatial field globally

Maitha Al-Nuaimi, Director of the Geographic Information Network Section and Acting Director of Data Section at GIS Center. Maitha was ranked among the list of 50 influencers in the geospatial fiel...

Introductory Workshop:
Introductory Workshop: "What you do not know about GIS"

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to spread geospatial awareness to the largest number of individuals, entities, departments and educational institutions, the Center organized, in co...

Meeting with an innovator: Ahmed Al Shehhi February 2021
Meeting with an innovator: Ahmed Al Shehhi

Within the activities of the Emirates Innovates 2021, organized by Dubai Municipality, the employee Ahmed Al Shehhi from GIS Center presented one of the most important innovations adopted by the Ce...

The 18th edition of Honoring Creative Ideas Ceremony February 2021
The 18th edition of Honoring Creative Ideas Ceremony

Within the UAE Innovates Week 2021 activities, and during the 18th ceremony to honor those with creative ideas, Dubai Municipality honored Eng. Mohammed Al-Mustafa, Senior GIS Data Steward at the G...

Virtual Meeting with Dubai Customs February 2021
Virtual Meeting with Dubai Customs

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to present the best practices and cooperation with various entities, the Center organized a virtual meeting with Dubai Customs. The meeting aimed to...

Shortlisted nomination: Construction Technology Awards February 2021
Shortlisted nomination: Construction Technology Awards

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, has been shortlisted for the Construction Technology Awards under the “Construction Technology Leader of the Year" category. The winners will be a...

Virtual Meeting with Etisalat February 2021
Virtual Meeting with Etisalat

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to enhance strategic partnership and support technology, innovation and smart systems in the field of developing and building a smart and sustainabl...

Makani workshops for educational institutions February 2021
Makani workshops for educational institutions

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts, in cooperation with educational institutions to spread geospatial awareness and benefit from geospatial services, the center organized informative ...

Introductory workshops for Makani application February 2021
Introductory workshops for Makani application

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts in cooperation with educational institutions to spread geospatial awareness and benefit from geospatial services, the center annually organizes a n...

The Hope Probe embodies the culture of no-impossibility February 2021
The Hope Probe embodies the culture of no-impossibility

Eng. Maryam Al Muhairi, Director of GIS has expressed her pride and honor of her country the United Arab Emirates and its great achievements. The Arab journey to Mars and the arrival of Hope Probe ...

Dubai Municipality launched the Unified-Comprehensive Land Map project January 2021
Dubai Municipality launched the Unified-Comprehensive Land Map project

As part of the implementation of Dubai’s government vision to facilitate and unify service channels for owners, investors and consultants, and in order to enhance their confidence in government ser...

Virtual meeting with Cape Town Municipality January 2021
Virtual meeting with Cape Town Municipality

Within the framework of enhancing strategic cooperation and building relationships with various international entities, the GIS Center held a virtual meeting with the City of Cape Town Municipality...

Expo 2020 delegation visits GISC January 2021
Expo 2020 delegation visits GISC

Within the framework of strengthening relationships and the pioneering role that the Municipality plays in supporting strategic projects in the emirate, the GIS Center held a meeting on Wednesday, ...

Dubai Municipality won the Digital Transformation Champion Award of the Year 2020 January 2021
Dubai Municipality won the Digital Transformation Champion Award of the Year 2020

Within the annual BIG Project ME Awards competition organized by CPI Trade Media, Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center won the (Digital Transformation Champion of the Year award for the...

MoU with Dubai Real Estate Corporation January 2021
MoU with Dubai Real Estate Corporation

Within the framework of enhancing cooperation and building friendly relations with various governmental and private entities in the emirate, Dubai municipality represented by the GIS Center signed ...

Dubai Panorama January 2021
Dubai Panorama

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality has launched the "Dubai Panorama" service, which includes up to date 360-degree images of Dubai's streets and areas. The panoramic imageries were captured by th...

The Geospatial Support Center is now available 24/7 December 2020
The Geospatial Support Center is now available 24/7

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to ensure the provision of services with high quality and efficiency, and to ensure the happiness of its customers, the Geospatial Support Center ha...

Virtual meeting with Nakheel December 2020
Virtual meeting with Nakheel

Within the framework of the GIS Center’s efforts to strengthen strategic partnership, the Center held a virtual meeting with Nakheel Properties to discuss signing an MoU and a service level agreeme...

Virtual meeting with DED December 2020
Virtual meeting with DED

In light of the center’s keenness to display best practices and cooperation with various entities, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting with the Department of Economic D...

Virtual Meeting with Etisalat December 2020
Virtual Meeting with Etisalat

Within the framework of implementing service level agreement terms , the GIS Center of Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting with Etisalat to discuss, sharing and exchanging data between e...

MoU with Dubai Civil Aviation Authority December 2020
MoU with Dubai Civil Aviation Authority

Within the framework of enhancing cooperation and building friendly relations with various governmental and private entities in the emirate, Dubai municipality represented by the GIS Center signed ...

From a Map to publishing a Book with GISC's Support December 2020
From a Map to publishing a Book with GISC's Support

The author Salah Al-Din Taheri presented the GIS Center with a version of his book “The Meanings of Dubai Regions Names​ and the Reasons Behind Its naming"​, as an appreciation to the center for pr...

Issuing a Unified Map project for Dubai’s lands December 2020
Issuing a Unified Map project for Dubai’s lands

Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, and HE Sultan Butti Bin Mejren, Director General of Dubai Land Department, signed a partnership agreement regarding the issuance of a Compre...

GITEX Technology Week 2020 December 2020
GITEX Technology Week 2020

The GIS Center has participated in GITEX Technology Exhibition 2020 in its 40th edition with the participation of 1200 companies from more than 60 countries all over the world, in which the latest ...

Service level agreement with Etisalat December 2020
Service level agreement with Etisalat

Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, signed a service-level agreement (SLA) with Emirates Telecommunication Group Company (Etisalat PJSC), in the field of Geospatial Infrastruct...

HE Abdullah Al Basti oversees the GISC's projects at GITEX 2020 December 2020
HE Abdullah Al Basti oversees the GISC's projects at GITEX 2020

HE Abdullah Muhammad Al Basti, Secretary General of the Executive Council of Dubai visited the Dubai Municipality platform in GITEX Technology 2020, where HE has overseen the most important project...

SLA with MBRSC November 2020
SLA with MBRSC

In order to effectively strengthen strategic partnership relations according to an institutional system, and within the framework of the mutual endeavor to provide appropriate solutions, infrastruc...

MoU with Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company – Du November 2020
MoU with Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company – Du

Based on the wise leadership’s vision and the strategic guidance of Dubai’s Emirate and the keenness to strengthening cooperation and coordination between Dubai Municipality and Emirates Integrat...

Philosophy of Happiness November 2020
Philosophy of Happiness

The GIS Center, in cooperation with the Knowledge and Creativity Department, organized a virtual workshop titled (Philosophy of Happiness) for Dubai Municipality employees. The workshop was present...

ME BIM Summit November 2020
ME BIM Summit

GIS Center in Dubai Municipality has participated in the virtual event ME BIM Summit (the Middle East Building Information Modeling Summit), which lasted for 3 days. During the summit, creating a v...

GIS Day 2020 November 2020
GIS Day 2020

GIS Day 2020 falls on November 18, 2020 and have been celebrated worldwide. On this occasion, Dubai GIS Center - Dubai Municipality has celebrated GIS day by organizing an virtual event, which was...

Virtual Meeting with RTA November 2020
Virtual Meeting with RTA

Based on the keenness of the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality to show the best practices and cooperate with different entities, it held a virtual meeting with RTA. The meeting aimed to discuss the ...

Virtual Meeting with Municipality & Planning Department- Ajman November 2020
Virtual Meeting with Municipality & Planning Department- Ajman

In the view of enhancing the strategic partnerships between the government entities and participating in building a sustainable city, the GISC in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting with...

Virtual Meeting with FCSA October 2020
Virtual Meeting with FCSA

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with FCSA, within a series of meetings organized by the Center to strengthen the cooperation and participation in building a sustainable ...

Virtual Meeting with DHA October 2020
Virtual Meeting with DHA

Among the efforts of the GISC in Dubai Municipality and its joint cooperation with Dubai Health Authority (DHA), it held a virtual meeting with the authority's employees to present the results of a...

SLA with EMAAR October 2020
SLA with EMAAR

Based on the keenness of the Dubai Municipality to consolidate the principles of cooperation between all government, semi government and private entities in a way that benefits all participating p...

Virtual Meeting with Dubai Police October 2020
Virtual Meeting with Dubai Police

In order to effectively strengthen strategic partnership relations and the participation in building a sustainable city. The GIS Center and Drainage Projects department in Dubai Municipality, held ...

Open BIM Standards workshop October 2020
Open BIM Standards workshop

On the second day of BIM Middle East 2020 Conference & Expo, Ali Ismail, BIM Expert at GIS center gave a half-day training workshop for applying and implementing buildingSMART openBIM standards, wh...

BIM Middle East 2020 Conference & Expo October 2020
BIM Middle East 2020 Conference & Expo

In continuation of Dubai Municipality's efforts to lead the digital transformation in the building and construction sector in Dubai, the GIS Center participated in the BIM Middle East 2020 Conferen...

MoU with Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate October 2020
MoU with Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

Within the framework of enhancing cooperation and building friendly relations with various governmental and private entities in the emirate, Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center signed ...

Dubai Municipality inaugurated
Dubai Municipality inaugurated "Makani" : The World’s First Geo-Addressing System

​In pursuit of the wise leadership vision and the strategic directions of Dubai in transforming Dubai into a smart city. Dubai Municipality inaugurated the "Makani" smart system to label units geos...

Virtual meeting with the Ministry of Education October 2020
Virtual meeting with the Ministry of Education

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with the Ministry of Education, within a series of meetings organized by the Center to strengthen the cooperation and participation in bu...

SLA with DHA October 2020
SLA with DHA

In order to effectively strengthen strategic partnership relations according to an institutional system, and within the framework of the mutual endeavor to provide appropriate solutions, infrastruc...

Introduction to GIS Apps for local government lecture October 2020
Introduction to GIS Apps for local government lecture

Within the GeoHub initiatives, the GIS Center organized a lecture titled "Introduction to GIS Apps for local government​" which was given by Eng. Mohammed Khaled Hamoud to the Center's employees, s...

Introductory workshop for Makani application: Dubai National School October 2020
Introductory workshop for Makani application: Dubai National School

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts, in cooperation with educational institutions to spread geospatial awareness and benefit from geospatial services, the center organized an introduct...

MoU with Dubai Land Department October 2020
MoU with Dubai Land Department

Based on the wise leadership's vision and the strategic guidance of Dubai's Emirate, HE Dawoud Al Hajri Director General of Dubai Municipality, and HE Sultan Butti bin Mejren Director General of Du...

MoU with Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA) September 2020
MoU with Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA)

HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Authority (FCSA), represented by HE Abdul...

A virtual meeting with IACAD September 2020
A virtual meeting with IACAD

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with Islamic Affairs & Charitable Activities Department (IACAD), with a view to proceeding with implementing the terms of the recently si...

Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Dubai Club for POD September 2020
Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Dubai Club for POD

As part of the Makani introductory workshop series provided by the GIS center and with the aim of reaching the various authorities and departments in Dubai, the center organized an introductory wor...

OGC Workshop Series September 2020
OGC Workshop Series

The GIS center in Dubai Municipality organized an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) conference, in coordination with Ordinance Survey. The conference included workshops for 3 days from 21-23 Septemb...

A Virtual Meeting with Dubai Aviation City Corporation-Dubai South September 2020
A Virtual Meeting with Dubai Aviation City Corporation-Dubai South

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with directors and employees of Dubai Aviation City Corporation/Dubai South, within the series of meetings organized by the Center to str...

MoC with Dubai Police September 2020
MoC with Dubai Police

Based on the wise leadership’s vision and the strategic guidance of Dubai’s Emirate and the keenness to strengthening cooperation and coordination between Dubai Municipality and Dubai Police Gener...

SLA with Dubai Development Authority (DDA) September 2020
SLA with Dubai Development Authority (DDA)

The Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, has signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Dubai Development Authority (DDA), based on its keenness to strengthen the cooperation between...

Virtual meeting with Emirates Transport September 2020
Virtual meeting with Emirates Transport

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with Emirates Transport, with a view to proceeding with implementing the terms of the recently signed Service-Level Agreement (SLA), as w...

A virtual meeting with Etisalat Corporation September 2020
A virtual meeting with Etisalat Corporation

Based on the keenness of the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality to show the best practices and cooperate with different entities, it held a virtual meeting with Etisalat Corporation. During that meet...

A virtual meeting with EITC-Du September 2020
A virtual meeting with EITC-Du

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (EITC-DU), within the series of meetings organized by the Center to strengthen t...

A virtual meeting with Nakheel Properties September 2020
A virtual meeting with Nakheel Properties

Based on the keenness of the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality to show the best practices and cooperate with different entities, it held a virtual meeting with Nakheel Properties' directors represen...

Dawoud Al Hajri oversees the services of the new GIS Centre September 2020
Dawoud Al Hajri oversees the services of the new GIS Centre

HE Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, has overseen the new GIS Centre, given that it is the approved geographical data provider from geospatial maps for the government, semi-g...

H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed directs to issue a Unified Map of Dubai’s lands September 2020
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed directs to issue a Unified Map of Dubai’s lands

​His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, directed the Dubai Municipality, in cooperation with the Department of L...

The Good Example Workshop September 2020
The Good Example Workshop

Within a series of workshops titled “the Good Example", the GIS Network Section Manager Ms. Maitha Al Nuaimi, , has participated in one of the first sessions held by Dubai municipality. Through thi...

ISPRS Virtual Event September 2020
ISPRS Virtual Event

The GISC in Dubai Municipality has participated in the virtual event of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), which aimed to strengthen the international cooperat...

SLA with Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment September 2020
SLA with Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment

The Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, has signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment (MRHE), based on the Municipality's determination to...

SLA with DUSUP August 2020
SLA with DUSUP

The Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, has signed a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Dubai Supply Authority (DUSUP), based on the Municipality’s determination to achieve the gover...

A virtual meeting with Jebel Ali Free Zone August 2020
A virtual meeting with Jebel Ali Free Zone

In order to strengthen the strategic partnership between the governmental entities and the Free Zone's authorities in Dubai and given the importance of uniting efforts to serve the whole community,...

Dubai Cartographic Basemap August 2020
Dubai Cartographic Basemap

Dubai Municipality has obtained the certificate of knowledge asset registration, as intellectual, of “Dubai Cartographic Basemap – Web Map Service”, thanks to the efforts of the Geographic Informat...

Dubai Municipality and DCAA launched Dubai Horizons’ project August 2020
Dubai Municipality and DCAA launched Dubai Horizons’ project

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA), chaired a virtual meeting with Dubai Municipality, in which H.E. Mohammed Abdullah Ahli, Director General o...

Implementing “Absher Belsaad” initiative August 2020
Implementing “Absher Belsaad” initiative

Under the umbrella of the City Builder Initiatives, the housing loan service team implemented “Absher Belsaad” initiative, which includes developing a mechanism for providing a housing loan for Ema...

Dubai Municipality adopts geospatial data in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 August 2020
Dubai Municipality adopts geospatial data in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030

The Geographic Information System's Center (GISC) in Dubai Municipality has adopted the geospatial data in support of Dubai's Government strategy to the fully digital transition, through the compre...

Dubai moving towards digital transformation in the building and construction sector using BIM August 2020
Dubai moving towards digital transformation in the building and construction sector using BIM

Dubai Municipality has established a working group to lead the digital transformation in the building and construction sector in Dubai and to implement Building Information Modeling (BIM). Also Dub...

SLA with Dubai Statistics Center August 2020
SLA with Dubai Statistics Center

Based on Dubai Municipality’s determination to achieve the government strategy to transform Dubai into the smartest and happiest city in the world, the Municipality, represented by the GISC, has si...

"Dubai North Arrow”: from idea to reality on maps

Dubai Municipality has obtained the certificate of knowledge asset registration, as intellectual, of “Dubai North Arrow", thanks to the efforts of the Geographic Information Systems Center's employ...

Keys to success workshop August 2020
Keys to success workshop

The Geographic Services Department at GIS Centre in Dubai Municipality held a virtual workshop for its employees, titled “Keys to success", which was presented by Fatima Ibrahim Al-Amiri, a certifi...

Virtual meeting with DHA July 2020
Virtual meeting with DHA

Among the efforts of the GISC in Dubai Municipality and its joint cooperation with Dubai Health Authority (DHA), it held a virtual meeting with the authority's employees to discuss the proposal of ...

Virtual Meeting with KHDA July 2020
Virtual Meeting with KHDA

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting with Dubai Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), to discuss ways of cooperation between the two parties and work on prov...

Esri: The World's Largest Virtual GIS Event in 2020 July 2020
Esri: The World's Largest Virtual GIS Event in 2020

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center has participated in the World's Largest Virtual GIS Event “Geospatial", which was held on three consecutive days from 14 to 16 July 2020; to view th...

Virtual meeting with DDA July 2020
Virtual meeting with DDA

Within the framework of strengthening relations and cooperation with both public and private entities, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting with Dubai Development Author...

A virtual meeting with the Transportation Security Department July 2020
A virtual meeting with the Transportation Security Department

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual introductory meeting with employees and directors of Dubai Police's Transportation Security Department. The objective of the meeting was to ...

Virtual meeting with the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai July 2020
Virtual meeting with the Department of Economic Development (DED) in Dubai

In the view of enhancing the strategic partnerships between the governmental entities and participating in building a sustainable city, the GISC in Dubai Municipality organized a virtual meeting wi...

Virtual Meeting with the Holy Quran Academy in Sharjah. July 2020
Virtual Meeting with the Holy Quran Academy in Sharjah.

The GISC in Dubai Municipality is keen to ensure sharing its best practices while cooperating with different entities. In this regard, it organized a virtual meeting with the employees of Holy Qura...

Virtual meeting with Sharqia Development Authority (SDA) July 2020
Virtual meeting with Sharqia Development Authority (SDA)

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts to support the cooperation and share knowledge and experiences with different entities and countries, the Centre held a virtual meeting with a numbe...

Remote Geospatial Training for the strategic stakeholders July 2020
Remote Geospatial Training for the strategic stakeholders

As part of the series of remote geospatial trainings using the modern methods launched by the GIS Centre in Dubai Municipality to sustain the process of the development in the geospatial's field wi...

Graduation: The National Artificial Intelligence Program July 2020
Graduation: The National Artificial Intelligence Program

The Geographic Information System's center (GISc) in Dubai Municipality congratulates Ayeda Hassan Abdulla, GIS System Architect, on her graduation from the National Artificial Intelligence Program...

A brainstorming session for GIS Center's employees July 2020
A brainstorming session for GIS Center's employees

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality is keen to improve the quality of its services and focuses on the sustainable development of its operating procedures. In this regard, the center organized a br...

MoU with DED July 2020
MoU with DED

HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Department of Economic Development​ (DED), represented by HE Sami Al Qamzi, ...

MOU wih DUSUP June 2020
MOU wih DUSUP

Within the framework of enhancing cooperation and building convivial relations with the different local and national entities in the Emirate, the Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, ...

An Introductory meeting with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) June 2020
An Introductory meeting with Dubai Health Authority (DHA)

​The GIS center in Dubai Municipality held an introductory virtual meeting with Dubai Health Authority (DHA), in which Maitha Al Nuaimi, Manager of Geographic Information Network Section at the cen...

MOU with Dubai Development Authority June 2020
MOU with Dubai Development Authority

HE Eng. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Dubai Development Authority (DDA), represented by HE Malik Al Malik, Director Ge...

‘Dubai Here’ system June 2020
‘Dubai Here’ system

The Dubai Municipality, represented by GIS Centre, has developed the 'Dubai Here' electronic system that is accessible on web browser or smart devices and features 2D and 3D maps of Dubai's assets,...

The GIS Center’s Heroes June 2020
The GIS Center’s Heroes

In spite of the circumstances that Dubai’s emirate has experienced during the past period due to coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), the employees of the geographic information system’s center managed...

SLA with Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services June 2020
SLA with Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Ceter signed a service-level agreement with Dubai Corporation for Ambulance services (DCAS). This agreement aims to increase the cooperation between the t...

Medal of Honor to frontline heroes June 2020
Medal of Honor to frontline heroes

The HR department at Dubai Municipality handed over the Medal of Honor to Eng. Mariam Al Muhairi, director of GIS Center, presented by H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown P...

GISc in a virtual meeting with the Directorate General of Dubai Civil Defense June 2020
GISc in a virtual meeting with the Directorate General of Dubai Civil Defense

In order to enhance strategic partnerships between government entities and participate in building a sustainable city, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized a visual electronic meeting w...

Remote Geospatial Training for strategic partners June 2020
Remote Geospatial Training for strategic partners

As part of a series of remote geospatial trainings using the modern methods, which were launched by the Geographic Information System center (GISc) in Dubai Municipality, in order to sustain the pr...

GISc in a virtual meeting with Dubai Land Department June 2020
GISc in a virtual meeting with Dubai Land Department

In view of the importance of unifying the efforts made to serve the entire community and to enhance cooperation and participation in building a sustainable city, the GIS center ​in Dubai Municipali...

Towards cooperation and joint efforts with Dubai Police June 2020
Towards cooperation and joint efforts with Dubai Police

As part of the series of meetings organized by the Geographic Information System Center (GISc) in Dubai Municipality to enhance cooperation and participation in building a sustainable city, the cen...

Service level agreement with IACAD June 2020
Service level agreement with IACAD

Based on the keenness of the Dubai Municipality to consolidate the principles of cooperation between all government and private entities in a way that benefits all participating parties, the Munici...

Half of GIS Center’s employees returned to their offices in compliance with precautionary measures June 2020
Half of GIS Center’s employees returned to their offices in compliance with precautionary measures

Further to the decision of H. H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council to resume work at Dubai government departments’ office...

A Webinar Session with RTA June 2020
A Webinar Session with RTA

In order to enhance strategic partnerships between government entities and participate in building a sustainable city, the ​GIS Center in Dubai Municipality ​organized a visual electronic meeting w...

GISc in a virtual meeting with (TRA)-Dubai June 2020
GISc in a virtual meeting with (TRA)-Dubai

The GIS center in Dubai Municipality held a virtual meeting with the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority’s directors and employees, in order to cooperate and participate in building a sustainab...

A webinar with Dubai Statistics Center June 2020
A webinar with Dubai Statistics Center

In support of Dubai’s vision to be a smart city and within the framework of enhancing cooperation and participating in building a sustainable city, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized an...

Service level agreement with the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority May 2020
Service level agreement with the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

Based on the keenness of the Dubai Municipality to consolidate the principles of cooperation between all government and private entities in a way that benefits all participating parties, the Munici...

Service level agreement with the Directorate General of Dubai Civil Defense May 2020
Service level agreement with the Directorate General of Dubai Civil Defense

Based on the keenness of the Dubai Municipality to consolidate the principles of cooperation between all government and private entities in a way that benefits all participating parties, the Munici...

Service Level Agreement with RTA May 2020
Service Level Agreement with RTA

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center has signed a service level agreement with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA). The agreement aimed to increase cooperation between the two...

An Online meeting with DEWA May 2020
An Online meeting with DEWA

Within the framework of enhancing cooperation and participating in building a sustainable city, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized an online meeting with a number of directors and emplo...

Developments of Dubai BIM Roadmap Design and Implementation for Building Construction project May 2020
Developments of Dubai BIM Roadmap Design and Implementation for Building Construction project

Within the activities of Dubai BIM Roadmap Design and Implementation for Building Construction project commissioned by the Dubai's Building Permit Procedures Development Committee, which the GIS ce...

3D LIDAR Scanning of Dubai buildings & landmarks May 2020
3D LIDAR Scanning of Dubai buildings & landmarks

The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Center in Dubai Municipality accomplished a great effort in the recent period, despite the exceptional circumstances, by scanning all the landmarks and buil...

Webinar: AI for Lidar Feature Extraction May 2020
Webinar: AI for Lidar Feature Extraction

Dubai Municipality's GIS Center staff participated in a​​ webinar session, organized by ESRI. The session was about the AI for Lidar Feature Extraction, where they look into the automation of high-...

SLA with Emirates Post Group May 2020
SLA with Emirates Post Group

The Dubai Municipality is keen to strengthen the joint cooperative principles with all government and private entities for the benefit of all parties in terms of updating the services and facilitat...

The Smart Addressing System “Makani”... with new features that serve People of Determination April 2020
The Smart Addressing System “Makani”... with new features that serve People of Determination

In line with the goals of "My Community .. A Place for Everyone" initiative launched by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Coun...

Risks Mitigation Plan in GIS Center April 2020
Risks Mitigation Plan in GIS Center

The Geographic Information Network section at GIS Center in Dubai Municipality, held their periodic remotely meeting;​​ to discuss the risks that the section might face due to Corona virus (Covid-1...

First Remote Geospatial Training April 2020
First Remote Geospatial Training

In abidance with the precautionary measures to prevent the emerging corona virus, and by utilizing modern technology to continue the development process in the geospatial field. The GIS Center in D...

GeoHub Workshops are Only a Click Away April 2020
GeoHub Workshops are Only a Click Away

As part of its continuous efforts to support the Academic sector in the GIS field, GeoHub in collaboration with GIS Center's experts hosted its first virtual edition of workshops today. GeoHub's on...

Visit to GIS Center: The General Department of Operations in Dubai Police March 2020
Visit to GIS Center: The General Department of Operations in Dubai Police

The GIS Center of Dubai Municipality received a delegation from the General Department of Operations in Dubai Police;​ in order to enhance the cooperation between the two parties in common fields ​​​

Sharjah ​Center for Astronomy & Space S​ciences​ visited GIS Center March 2020
Sharjah ​Center for Astronomy & Space S​ciences​ visited GIS Center

The GIS Center of Dubai Municipality has received a delegation from Sharjah Center of Astronomy & Space Sciences, in order to discuss cooperation between the two parties. During the meeting the GIS...

GIS Center meeting with Meydan March 2020
GIS Center meeting with Meydan

The GIS Center met with Meydan, in order to discuss ways of cooperation and the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two parties in the field of geospatial infrastructure. Whe...

Accomplishing tasks on time March 2020
Accomplishing tasks on time

The Strategy & Corporate Excellence Department in Dubai Municipality ​honored Abdullah Ibrahim Juma from GIS Center, for his efforts in calculating service indicators and adding them on time into t...

Honoring GIS Employees March 2020
Honoring GIS Employees

Muhammad Ibrahim Al Marzouqi, Director of Data Section at GIS Center and the employees Mahar Juma Al ketbi and Asma Abdullah Al Ali, were honored for their distinguished efforts and effective contr...

Strengthening cooperation with the academic sector February 2020
Strengthening cooperation with the academic sector

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality received a delegation from Al Ittihad Private School in Dubai; to know more​​ about the achievements and the innovative projects of the center, where future coo...

A delegation visit: RTA & the Department of Land & Property in Dubai February 2020
A delegation visit: RTA & the Department of Land & Property in Dubai

The GIS Center of Dubai Municipality met with a delegation from the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA), Land and Property Departemnt in Dubai and the Urban Planning and Studies Department in Dubai...

Future Pioneers February 2020
Future Pioneers

Within the framework of the GIS Center efforts in Dubai Municipality to support innovation in geospatial business and projects' fields, the Center, through the business incubator GeoHub, received s...

Meeting with the Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Management of Dubai Police February 2020
Meeting with the Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Management of Dubai Police

A coordination meeting with the Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Management of Dubai Police, to discuss the cooperation with the GIS Center​

Winning in Data First Challenge February 2020
Winning in Data First Challenge

Ahmed Al Shehhi, Neelagandan Ulaga Nathan and Surbjeet Singh Dutta, employees ​from GIS Center were honored among the Dubai Municipality team who won the Data Team Award for achieving the highest p...

Government leadership workshop February 2020
Government leadership workshop

GIS center employees participated in the government leadership workshop organized by the Municipality, which revolves around the requirements for achieving government leadership, as part of the Mun...

DHA delegation visit February 2020
DHA delegation visit

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality received a delegation from the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), to know more about the best practices, technologies and projects the center follows, as well as​ to...

A delegation from Dubai Ambulance visited the GIS Center February 2020
A delegation from Dubai Ambulance visited the GIS Center

The GIS Center of Dubai Municipality received a delegation from Dubai Ambulance, in order ​to showcase the best practices followed by the center and the latest technologies and projects, in additio...

Building Capacity in Al Geospatial Program February 2020
Building Capacity in Al Geospatial Program

In its course to cope with the highest standards of the available technology around the globe, GIS Center invited one of the most experienced trainers of ESRI (A global market leader organization i...

BIM Project February 2020
BIM Project

​Dr. Ali Ismail GIS Specialist, met with the Dubai Development Authority (DED) & Trakhees , in order to provide them with the work plan and latest developments for the BIM project

Geospatial AI Technology February 2020
Geospatial AI Technology

The GIS Center hosted one of the most experienced trainers in the ESRI Corporation, one of the leading companies in the global market in GIS; to train the specialized team that is currently applyin...

The General Department of Airport Security in the Dubai Police visited GIS Center February 2020
The General Department of Airport Security in the Dubai Police visited GIS Center

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality received a delegation from the threat assessment section at the General Department of Airport Security in the Dubai Police, to discuss the cooperation between t...

AI and Machine Learning Conference February 2020
AI and Machine Learning Conference

Dubai Municipality's GIS Center staff attended an online conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning,​ organized by Amazon Web Services (AWS).The conference aimed at enabling the emp...

Collaboration with Al Mas Robotics Company February 2020
Collaboration with Al Mas Robotics Company

As part of the GIS Center efforts to support the innovation in the field of business and future projects, the Center, through its business incubator GeoHub, welcomed the Emirati inventor and entrep...

Saif Al Saidi champion of the Desert Challenge 2020 February 2020
Saif Al Saidi champion of the Desert Challenge 2020

Saif Al Saidi the champion from the Dubai Municipality team, won the first place from the teams’ category in the 6th edition of the Desert Challenge Championship «Desert Warrior 2020». More than 2,...

A delegation from Civil Defense visited GIS Center February 2020
A delegation from Civil Defense visited GIS Center

A technical delegation from Civil Defense visited GIS Center, to discuss the requirements of the higher management of geospatial civil defense data and its cooperation with Dubai Municipality, in a...

Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Al Salam Private School February 2020
Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Al Salam Private School

Within the framework of the Center's efforts to cooperate with educational institutions, spread awareness and transfer knowledge, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized an introductory work...

GIS Center inspires UAE University students for their Graduation Projects February 2020
GIS Center inspires UAE University students for their Graduation Projects

As part of the intensive and continuous efforts to promote and develop the exchange of geospatial expertise and information, the GIS Center through its business incubator GeoHub, welcomed the stude...

Brainstorming workshop on the use of Future Technology February 2020
Brainstorming workshop on the use of Future Technology

Part of the brainstorming workshop organized by the Geographical Information Network Section, led by Maitha Al-Nuaimi Manager of the Geographical Information Network Section. The session was aimed ...

A delegation from Dubai Police visited GIS Center February 2020
A delegation from Dubai Police visited GIS Center

A delegation from the Dubai Police General Command visited the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality and met Eng. Maryam Al Muhairi, Head of GIS Center. The visit aimed to implement the smart solutions ...

MoU with IACAD February 2020
MoU with IACAD

The GIS Center, represented by HE Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, signed a memorandum of understanding with Islamic Affairs & Charitable Activities Department, represente...

Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Emirates Post Group February 2020
Introductory Workshop for Makani App: Emirates Post Group

Within the framework of the GIS Center efforts to reach out to the various entities and departments in Dubai to educate them of the center services and introduce the smart geographical addressing s...

MoU with Emirates Post Group February 2020
MoU with Emirates Post Group

The GIS Center, represented by HE Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, signed a memorandum of understanding with Emirates Post Group, represented by HE Abdullah Mohammed Al Ashr...

The Traffic Control Department in Dubai Police: A visit to GIS Center February 2020
The Traffic Control Department in Dubai Police: A visit to GIS Center

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality, received a delegation from the Traffic Control Department in the Dubai Police; in order to enhance the relationship and bonds of cooperation between the two pa...

The Happiness Philosophy workshop February 2020
The Happiness Philosophy workshop

The Geographical Services Department at GIS Centre in Dubai Municipality, organized a workshop for its employees titled The Happiness Philosophy, which was held at Zabeel Park, and presented by Fat...

Introductory Workshop for Makani Application:Al Salam Community Private School February 2020
Introductory Workshop for Makani Application:Al Salam Community Private School

Within the framework of the Center's efforts to cooperate with educational institutions, spread awareness and transfer knowledge, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality had organized an introductory ...

Collaboration with Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai February 2020
Collaboration with Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality strives to be continuously ahead in terms of developments in the field of GIS. In this regard, the center through GeoHub welcomed a delegation from the Higher C...

The GIS Center Team Wins Over Customers and Partners Relations Department Team February 2020
The GIS Center Team Wins Over Customers and Partners Relations Department Team

Determination, persistence and enthusiasm were the keys to success, as they appeared on the GIS Center team players and were the reason behind achieving victory in the Dubai Municipality Football L...

Geospatial Services Center Project February 2020
Geospatial Services Center Project

The first meeting to discuss Geospatial Services Center project was held in partnership with the National Survey Authority in Britain (Ordnance Survey). This project is considered the first project...

Collaboration with Al-Futtaim Group in Smart City Initiative & Innovation February 2020
Collaboration with Al-Futtaim Group in Smart City Initiative & Innovation

Within the framework of the GIS Center efforts in Dubai Municipality to support innovation in geospatial business and projects' fields, the Center, through GeoHub, held a meeting with Al-Futtaim gr...

Dubai Police: A Visit to the Center January 2020
Dubai Police: A Visit to the Center

​Dubai Police Headquarters conducted a visit to GIS Center and Survey Department to discuss initiating a new project to view, exchange and manage all geographical data related to Dubai Police. Duba...

Collaboration with the University of Sharjah January 2020
Collaboration with the University of Sharjah

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality welcomed a delegation from University of Sharjah to discuss collaboration opportunities with their RISE (Research Institute of Sciences & Engineering).​

Federal GIS center of UAE: A Visit to GIS Center in Dubai Municiplaity January 2020
Federal GIS center of UAE: A Visit to GIS Center in Dubai Municiplaity

The GIS Center welcomes the team of Federal GIS Center of UAE

Launch of Designing a New Electronic System for Building Permits Project in Dubai Municipality January 2020
Launch of Designing a New Electronic System for Building Permits Project in Dubai Municipality

Dubai Municipality has launched a project to design a new electronic system for building permits on Wednesday, January 22, 2020.The consulting firm implementing the project provided a detailed pres...

The GIS Center Team Wins Over Food Safety Department Team January 2020
The GIS Center Team Wins Over Food Safety Department Team

The determination and persistence appeared on the GIS Center team players, as they achieved victory in the Dubai Municipality Football League Championship 2019-2020 against the Food Safety Departme...

Partnership Star Initiative January 2020
Partnership Star Initiative

The GIS Center ranked first in the fourth quarter of 2019 for its continuous efforts with partners. The Department of Customer Relations and Partners Management in appreciation of her distinguished...

Dubai Municipality and Emaar: Cooperation in GIS field January 2020
Dubai Municipality and Emaar: Cooperation in GIS field

A delegation from Emaar had visited the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality on Thursday 16th of January 2020 to discuss ways of cooperation in the field of GIS, where the engineer. Maryam Al Muhairi, ...

Launch of Dubai BIM Roadmap Design and Implementation for Building Construction Project January 2020
Launch of Dubai BIM Roadmap Design and Implementation for Building Construction Project

The Building Permits Development Committee in Dubai launched a project to design and implement a roadmap for Building Information Modeling in the Emirate of Dubai on Wednesday, January 15, 2020.The...

Discussing Unification of Land Parcel Numbering System Using Dubai Lands and Planning Management System January 2020
Discussing Unification of Land Parcel Numbering System Using Dubai Lands and Planning Management System

In the context of the GIS Center's efforts in Dubai Municipality to improve systems and facilitate procedures, the center held a meeting with Trakhees, Nakheel properties and Jebel Ali Free Zone (J...

GeoHub: Future View of Geospatial Technologies January 2020
GeoHub: Future View of Geospatial Technologies

As part of the intensive and continuous efforts to promote and develop the exchange of geospatial expertise and information, the Center, through its business incubator GeoHub, welcomed the leading ...

2020: Let’s Talk about Something Different January 2020
2020: Let’s Talk about Something Different

Away from the work environment, the Director of the GIS Center organized a training workshop under the title "Let's talk about something different" for employees who recently joined the center. The...

Dubai Civil Aviation Authority:  A Visit to the Center January 2020
Dubai Civil Aviation Authority: A Visit to the Center

A delegation from the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority has visited the Center to review its best practices in the field of GIS. The authority presented the Drone project “Dubai SkyDome " and discusse...

The GIS Center Team Wins Over Public Health and Safety Team January 2020
The GIS Center Team Wins Over Public Health and Safety Team

Among a celebratory atmosphere that embedded more familiarity and love among Dubai Municipality employees, the GIS Center team achieved victory in the Dubai Municipality Football League 2019-2020​​...

Ministry of Infrastructure Development: A Visit to GIS Center December 2019
Ministry of Infrastructure Development: A Visit to GIS Center

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts in Dubai Municipality to support and exchange knowledge and experiences between various entities, a delegation from the Ministry of Infrastructure D...

BIM Training Workshop December 2019
BIM Training Workshop

Within the framework of the GIS Center's efforts in Dubai Municipality to support innovation, spread awareness and knowledge, and develop the employees' skills in the field of geospatial projects a...

First Place for Giving Useful Recommendations December 2019
First Place for Giving Useful Recommendations

The GIS Center ranked first in the category of giving the most useful recommendations at the level of Dubai Municipality, and Eng. Hussein Mohammed Abdulmuttalib was honored by the Knowledge Manage...

Winter Camp Reservation Service for Dubai Municipality Employees December 2019
Winter Camp Reservation Service for Dubai Municipality Employees

The GIS Center, in cooperation with the Building Permit Department in Dubai Municipality, has developed an electronic system to reserve winter camps for Dubai Municipality's employees, in order to ...

Al Futtaim Group: A Visit to Municipality's Headquarter December 2019
Al Futtaim Group: A Visit to Municipality's Headquarter

A delegation from the Al Futtaim Group in the presence of ​GIS Manager ,Bahaeddin Al-Qedrah​, has visited the Municipality's headquarter, to view the best practices of the center in the field of GI...

Environment Agency Abu Dhabi: A Visit to Municipality's Headquarter December 2019
Environment Agency Abu Dhabi: A Visit to Municipality's Headquarter

A delegation from the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi in the presence of the Director of Environmental Information Department and a number of the agency's employees has visited the Municipality's head...

A workshop to increase competitiveness of Dubai Government staff for print and digital maps December 2019
A workshop to increase competitiveness of Dubai Government staff for print and digital maps

The GIS Center invited a senior Cartographer from ESRI (A global market leader organization in GIS) to conduct a workshop, where the SME shared the methodology and demonstrated several examples fro...

Esri Senior Executive Summit 2019 December 2019
Esri Senior Executive Summit 2019

Dubai Municipality, represented by the GIS Center, participated in the Esri Senior Executive Summit, which was held on December 11, 2019. The summit aims to provide an opportunity for Esri partners...

GeoHub: From an Idea to Reality December 2019
GeoHub: From an Idea to Reality

Within the framework of the GIS Center efforts in Dubai Municipality to support innovation in geospatial business and projects' fields, the Center, through GeoHub, held its first meeting to look at...

The GIS Center Team Wins Over Human Resources Management Team December 2019
The GIS Center Team Wins Over Human Resources Management Team

A match was held within the Dubai Municipality Football League 2019-2020 championship between the GIS Center and the Human Resources Management teams . Fortunately, it ended with GIS Center team's ...

Memorandum of Understanding with Noon December 2019
Memorandum of Understanding with Noon

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with Noon, in view of increasing cooperation between the two parties in the field of promoting and developi...

Participation of the Center in The Big 5 Heavy Exhibition November 2019
Participation of the Center in The Big 5 Heavy Exhibition

The GIS Center in Dubai Municiplaity participated in the RTA Innovation in BIM Summit in Dubai within the activities of the International Big Five Exhibition (The Big 5 Heavy) which was held in Dub...

Introductory Workshop for Makani Application November 2019
Introductory Workshop for Makani Application

As part of the continuous efforts of the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality to spread awareness and knowledge of the geographic address system "Makani", the Center has organized an introductory works...

Participants from Dubai Municipality in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona November 2019
Participants from Dubai Municipality in Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona

Within a delegation that comprises of 11 governmental and semi-government entities, the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality participated in the eighth session of the Smart City Expo World Congress in ...

GIS Day 2019 November 2019
GIS Day 2019

GIS Center in Dubai Municipality celebrated the Geographic Information Systems Day on Wednesday, 13th of November 2019.Latest innovations, geospatial systems and artificial intelligence technologie...

GISC Provides Support and Training for Students November 2019
GISC Provides Support and Training for Students

Among the activities of the GIS Day, more than 100 students from different universities were involved and trained on geospatial survey technologies as well as on other activities. These activities ...

Won First Place in “Dubai Frame Challenge” November 2019
Won First Place in “Dubai Frame Challenge”

GISC employees are not only leaders in geospatial data but also in challenges that need physical strength and mental toughness. Our champion Saif Al Saidi challenged his inner warrior by proving hi...

Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority November 2019
Memorandum of Understanding with Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority

On Sunday November 10, 2019, Dubai Municipality has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority, in view of enhancing cooperation frameworks between the two parties ...

Desert Warrior Challenge November 2019
Desert Warrior Challenge

The Champion of the GISC, Saif Al-Saidi, won first place in the region's most adrenaline-fueled and exhilarating obstacle challenge “Desert Warrior challenge" within the Dubai Municipality team.​

Young Professionals in Space Conference November 2019
Young Professionals in Space Conference

The GIS Center participated in the fourth edition of the “Young Professionals in Space 2019" conference (YPS), which was launched by Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center at the Dubai International Conv...

Moving Towards Geospatial Cities October 2019
Moving Towards Geospatial Cities

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Humaid Bin Rashid Al Nuaimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Ajman, Engineer Mariam Al Muhairi the Director of GIS Center was hosted in the 9th...

The GIS Center Female Champions are at the Forefront of Basketball October 2019
The GIS Center Female Champions are at the Forefront of Basketball

Within the Dubai Municipality Women's team, GIS Center female employees had participated in Sheikha Hind Women's Sports Tournament, the largest of its kind, which includes teams from different gove...

Dubai Municipality Participates in the 5th Annual Construction Summit October 2019
Dubai Municipality Participates in the 5th Annual Construction Summit

Embracing Constructability – Going Beyond BIM!This year, The Construction Summit Middle East returned on October 23rd, 2019 with a mandate to exploring construction work processes and technology th...

Gitex 2019: MoU between Dubai Municipality and Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services October 2019
Gitex 2019: MoU between Dubai Municipality and Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services

The director of Dubai Municipality's GIS center, Eng. Mariam Obaid Al Muhairi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Acting Director of the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services...

Dubai Municipality, Emirates Transport signed MoU for Geo-Dubai October 2019
Dubai Municipality, Emirates Transport signed MoU for Geo-Dubai

The director of Dubai Municipality's GIS center, Eng. Mariam Obaid Al Muhairi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the director of information systems at Emirates Transport, Mohammed...

Gitex 2019: MoU between Dubai Municipality and Nedaa October 2019
Gitex 2019: MoU between Dubai Municipality and Nedaa

The director of Dubai Municipality's GIS center, Eng. Mariam Obaid Al Muhairi has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the executive director of Nedaa Professional Communication Co, Mans...

GITEX 2019 October 2019
GITEX 2019

Dubai Municipality was honored to welcome HH Lt. General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, and HH Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, D...

Visit to Cityscape World Exhibition & Conference 2019 September 2019
Visit to Cityscape World Exhibition & Conference 2019

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Aviation Authority and Chairman of Emirates Group, inaugurated the Building Information Modeling (BIM) project launched by the Duba...

BIM Middle East 2019 Conference & Expo September 2019
BIM Middle East 2019 Conference & Expo

Under the umbrella of Dubai Building Permit Development Committee, the GIS Center participated in the BIM Middle East 2019 Conference & Expo Open BIM The Key to Industry 4.0 on September 24, 2019, ...

MoU with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre August 2019
MoU with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre

Dubai Municipality represented by the GIS Center has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, in view of increasing cooperation between the two parties in the f...

For the first time: Using Virtual Reality Technology May 2019
For the first time: Using Virtual Reality Technology

​The signing of the smart agreement through the “Virtual Reality" between Dubai Municipality and Civil DefenseDubai Municipality Director General, Dawood Al Hajri and Director General of the Civil ...

Visit to the headquarters of Ordnance Service in the United Kingdom​ March 2019
Visit to the headquarters of Ordnance Service in the United Kingdom​

Ordnance Survey in UK is the Royal Commission charged by the British Government to carry out surveying, administrative boundaries, mapping and all geographic information systems for more than two c...

World Government Summit February 2019
World Government Summit

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, unveiled the new corporate identity of Dubai Municipality at the Seventh World Gove...

Nature Day Initiative February 2019
Nature Day Initiative

As part of the efforts of the GIS Center in Dubai Municipality to spread positive energy among employees, and in the context of supporting initiatives that encourage preserving the desert and mount...

Maitha Al Nuaimi: the first Emirati to obtain a 3D camera drone license January 2019
Maitha Al Nuaimi: the first Emirati to obtain a 3D camera drone license

Dubai Municipality has provided support and training to the engineer and GIS Specialist, Maitha Al Nuaimi, to qualify as the first Emirati woman to obtain 3D camera drone license in Dubai awarded b...

Launching of the Smart Training Center December 2018
Launching of the Smart Training Center

Dubai Municipality launches a virtual training center, which is the first of its kind in the region, under the supervision of the GIS CenterDubai Municipality, under the supervision of the GIS Cent...

ESRI User Conference -Middle East and Africa December 2018
ESRI User Conference -Middle East and Africa

GISC has participated in the ESRI Conference in 11-13 December 2018, the largest GIS event in the region. The conference represents an opportunity to gain awareness about new advances scored in dev...

GIS Day 2018 November 2018
GIS Day 2018

GIS Center (GISC) has organized a day on 14 November 2018 to mark the occasion of the World Day of Geographic Information Systems (GIS Day). Members of the Geospatial community of Dubai, which cons...

GITEX exhibition 2018 October 2018
GITEX exhibition 2018

Dubai Municipality participated in GITEX exhibition 2018 to assert its position at the local, regional and international levels and to share its knowledge and experiences with the participants in t...

Global Cityscape Exhibition reviews investment opportunities in the UAE and the region October 2018
Global Cityscape Exhibition reviews investment opportunities in the UAE and the region

Launch of GeoDubai at CityscapeDubai Municipality has participated in Cityscape exhibition 2018 in the period 2-4 October at Dubai World Trade Center, to support the real estate environment in Dub...

International Labor Day June 2018
International Labor Day

Under the slogan "Our Workers are Givers Without Limits“, the GIS Center celebrated International Labor Day which falls on the first of May of each year , by showing appreciation and gratitude for ...

GIS Center Initiative in Mother’s Day March 2018
GIS Center Initiative in Mother’s Day

To celebrate Mother's Day, the Director of the GIS Center, Maryam Al-Muhairi, presented gifts to all mothers in the center and congratulated them in appreciation of their efforts, and as an affirma...

Who is our Happy Employee Initiative March 2018
Who is our Happy Employee Initiative

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality launched the initiative "Who is our Happy Employee?" on International Happiness Day which falls on March 20 of each year. This is to establish concepts of happi...

Our Department Reads Initiative March 2018
Our Department Reads Initiative

As part of the GIS Center's participation in the Year of Reading, an initiative was implemented under the title of “Our Department Reads" in order to consolidate and enhance the employees' reading ...

All the Way from Sharjah to Dubai Municipality Headquarter by Walking! February 2018
All the Way from Sharjah to Dubai Municipality Headquarter by Walking!

Under the initiative of the Car Free Day , a group of GIS employees accompanied by the Director of the Department Eng. Mariam Al Muhairi used the ferry to reach the Dubai Municipality Headquarters ...

Gift and Love Initiative November 2017
Gift and Love Initiative

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality had organized an initiative called “Gift and Love", in order to spread the positive energy, love and familiarity between employees. The idea of the initiative i...

Celebrating the Return of Pilgrims September 2017
Celebrating the Return of Pilgrims

The celebration of the return of pilgrims is an essential part of Hajj pilgrimage rituals. The GIS Center has special methods, customs and traditions for welcoming pilgrims, as it organized a lunch...

Enable's Exhibition for Selling Products of People of Determination Team August 2017
Enable's Exhibition for Selling Products of People of Determination Team

In the context of supporting societal initiatives, and to support and encourage projects of people of determination, the GIS Center held an exhibition to sell the products of the People of Determin...

A Visit to  Saruq Al-Hadid Archeology Museum July 2017
A Visit to Saruq Al-Hadid Archeology Museum

The GIS Center organized a trip for its employees to visit the Saruq Al-Hadid Archeology Museum in the Shindagha Historic District. This museum is considered one of the most important archaeologica...

Academic Day for University Students May 2017
Academic Day for University Students

The GIS Center had organized an event for the Academic day for university students in the main building of the Dubai Municipality ​. A group of students from both United Arab Emirates University an...

Proper Behavior in case of a Fire Workshop April 2017
Proper Behavior in case of a Fire Workshop

The Occupational Health and Safety team at the GIS Center, in cooperation with the Department of Civil Defense, organized a workshop under the title of "Proper Behavior in case of a Fire" during th...

Health and Sports Day April 2017
Health and Sports Day

As part of the municipality's efforts to spread health awareness and encourage sports' culture, the GIS Center held a sports day for employees under the slogan “Make Sport a Way of Life". The event...

Take a Book and Leave a Book Initiative April 2017
Take a Book and Leave a Book Initiative

To celebrate the month of reading, the GIS Center had organized the "Take a Book and Leave a Book" initiative, where a number of municipal employees and their children participated to support this ...

GIS Center was Honored in the 2017 Partnerships Forum March 2017
GIS Center was Honored in the 2017 Partnerships Forum

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality was honored by Sheikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of Ajman Municipality and Planning Department, in appreciation of the joint efforts between the two ...

Remote Sensing and Annual Scientific Forum - 2017 March 2017
Remote Sensing and Annual Scientific Forum - 2017

The GIS Center in Dubai Municipality organized the Remote Sensing and Annual Scientific Forum. The forum aims to share geospatial experiences, in addition to showcasing many presentations by the pa...

Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Launches Makani Application in Dubai April 2015
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Launches Makani Application in Dubai

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, who is responsible for the implementation of the initiative to transform ...