H.E. Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi, Director General of Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), yesterday (Tuesday) received in his office at ECSSR headquarters in Abu Dhabi a high level delegation from the Emirates Identity Authority, headed by H.E. Dr. Eng. Ali Mohamed Al Khouri, Emirates ID Director General.
Al-Suwaidi as well as Al Khouri and the accompanying delegation discussed means of boosting mutual co-operation and co-ordination between ECSSR and the Emirates Identity Authority.
The meeting also discussed the role that ECSSR can play to support the Emirates Identity Authority in reaching its goals in a fast and precise manner for serving the society and achieving the public welfare of the UAE, particularly with respect to the prompt completion of the UAE population register project and the issuance of ID cards for all UAE nationals and residents. This would help facilitate government services and provide the information required to support decision-making and strategic planning, thereby contributing to rendering the UAE an advanced country at the regional and international level in reflection of the directives of the UAE prudent leadership and in implementation of its future vision, the meeting said.
Besides, the two sides talked about how to maintain the UAE original identity and culture amidst the challenges posed by the demographic structure, the greatest part of which is represented by expatriate labour.
For his part, Al-Suwaidi stressed the Emirates Identity Authority’s important role in building advanced ID systems through its strategic projects and initiatives, noting that the ID project derives its strategic value from the fact that it is pivotal and is also the backbone of the electronic transformation process taking place in the UAE, not to mention that it is the cornerstone of the development and modernization process in the upcoming period.
Al-Suwaidi hailed the Emirates Identity Authority’s strenuous efforts for simplifying and facilitating the procedures for UAE nationals and residents to obtain ID Cards promptly through the Emirates Identity Authority’s ongoing bid to improve and develop its services, particularly the e-form, which is filled out by customers at the Emirates Identity Authority-authorized typing offices. He also praised the launch of the service of issuing substitute ID cards for lost and damaged once also through the typing offices, which demonstrated the Emirates Identity Authority’s keenness on saving customers’ time and effort.
Al-Suwaidi pointed out that the advanced ID system projects needed by the UAE as any other country of the world are aimed at enhancing security and safety, protecting the individual identity and identifying the identity of individuals, particularly amidst the contemporary world’s overlapping geography, approximate borders and borderless integrated economies.
Stressing the importance of reaching the highest degree of co-operation and co-ordination among the different UAE sectors and organizations as well as the necessity for exchanging knowledge and expertise among them, Al-Suwaidi explained that achieving this goal would benefit the entire society and lead to the comprehensive development of the UAE.
Meanwhile, Al Khouri stressed the importance of the role that the ECSSR plays in serving the society through conducting various political, economic and social researches and studies, making surveys and public opinion polls and submitting such development plans and future visions that could help the UAE organizations develop and improve their services and upgrade their work.
Al Khouri reaffirmed that this visit would form a prominent turning point in the Emirates Identity Authority’s process of development and endeavor to build a strategic partnership relationship with the ECSSR, which is regarded as a shining intellectual and research landmark all over the world.
Al Khouri expressed his hope that the future co-operation relation with the ECSSR would be strengthened, particularly in the field of joint co-ordination for hosting and organizing international conferences and holding informative seminars on the advanced ID system projects.
He also valued the ECSSR’s initiative of publishing the book prepared by the Emirates Identity Authority on the “management of strategic projects in the government sector” as well as the ECSSR’s readiness to prepare and implement specialized researches and studies with the Emirates Identity Authority as regards issues of mutual concern.
The Emirates Identity Authority is working diligently to issue electronic ID cards to all the UAE population as soon as possible through the use of the most advanced technological means with the aim of supporting the government with a comprehensive and precise population register that meets the highest safety conditions.
Following the meeting with Al-Suwaidi, the visiting delegation made a tour of a number of ECSSR departments and sections and visited the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Hall and UAE Federation Library, where it was familiarized with the ECSSR’s releases issued in both Arabic and English.
At the end of their tour, Al Khouri and the accompanying delegation expressed their great admiration of the advanced devices and modern technology used by the ECSSR’s departments in carrying out its daily work, particularly in the audio-visual media monitoring units of the ECSSR’s Media Department.
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