Smart Cities in UAE: Governance, Innovation and Quality

Abstract

This article is a trail to investigate and evaluate the quality and innovation in the governance of the smart cities of UAE. It will highlight 3 major issues: the current governance of the smart cities of UAE, the need and the role of the quality and innovation in smart cities, the need of a framework to achieve the vision of the smart cities through innovative governance. Quantitative technique is used to collect the primary data from the target audience. The target audience are high level business/management positions and technology professionals working under the governance system of smart city of UAE at different positions. The article concludes that current governance approaches of the smart cities of UAE are not much effective to cater to the current challenges of the smart city such as maximum use of the resources and attain sustainability. Some governance approaches of the smart cities of UAE need to be modified or upgraded to be able to cater to the current problems of the smart cities. There is need to upgrade or innovate the approaches of the governance to achieve the best use of resources and provide quality of life through sustainable development. The study recommended that governance of the smart cities should provide solution at a centralized single platform, the flow of information to maximize the use of resource and minimize the waste, establish digital leadership, digital learning platform and collaboration between the stakeholders.