Emirates ID’s role in supporting Emirates Competitiveness Council’s initiatives discussed

The Emirates Identity Authority and a delegation from the Emirates Competitiveness Council (ECC) have discussed means of enhancing joint co-operation for fulfilling the ECC’s initiatives to optimize the ID card with the aim of upgrading the UAE rank in the field of doing business worldwide.

This was announced during a meeting held at the Emirates Identity Authority’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi the day before yesterday. The meeting was attended by H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Emirates ID Director General, and Najeeb Mohammed Al-Ali, Director of Strategy and Policy at ECC.

The visiting delegation presented the ECC’s plan for 2013 aimed at developing procedures in government entities and reducing the time taken to complete them through the use of ID card, which will be a significant and effective element in the provided electronic services by the time the infrastructure of the population register and ID card and the electronic linkage projects between the Emirates Identity Authority and government organizations have been developed.

Al Khouri expressed the Emirates Identity Authority’s full readiness to provide all forms of support necessary to make a success of the ECC’s initiatives, which represent one of the Emirates Identity Authority’s strategic mainstays as embodied in supporting the provision of electronic services.

Samia Al Sheikh, Director of Planning at the Emirates Identity Authority, made a presentation of the strategic plan 2010-2013 and the most outstanding projects emanating from it. The representatives of the Emirates Competitiveness Council also gave an outline of the World Bank’s annual report on the ease of doing business in the UAE and its rank worldwide in this field.