GIS Security Center Awarded the Best Government Cloud Computing App for 2013

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Monday, October 28th 2013 [ME NewsWire]
As a part of its participation at GITEX 2013, the Ministry of Interior, represented by GIS Security Center at Abu Dhabi GHQ, received the Best Government Cloud Computing App award from the Cloud Computing Forum. The award was for the Federal GIS Security Infrastructure project.

Major General Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Director General of Central Operations, confirmed that this leading project is a step towards the full transformation to Smart Services and the activation of GIS services as an essential component of the Smart Government. This transformation aims to harness the cutting-edge smart digital systems in law enforcement and to achieve the highest levels of security and public safety.  Doing so will achieve the strategic police priorities in IT investment, foster the geographical capabilities of the security institution, and increase competitiveness in the police and security sectors, which will be manifested positively in protecting the nation and its citizens.

He also stressed that the GIS Security Center, as per the directions and support of the Abu Dhabi Police GHQ, will continue to launch e-security geospatial services for GIS exchange among police headquarters at the state level. This information interchangeability will reinforce police activities on all operational, executive, and strategic levels and enhance the efficiency of security work. Furthermore, it will also support the decision making processes to shape knowledge obtained from the data analysis, and draw from the procedures and expertise of personnel at the police body. In addition, he underscored the police’s full commitment to adopt international standards that take into consideration the safety and security of geospatial data in order to maintain the state’s achievements in addition to the privacy of individuals and institutions.

Major Mohammed Saleh Al Mansouri, Director of GIS Security Center and the project supervisor, mentioned that the adopted cloud computing applications will largely contribute to increasing operational speed and transform the geospatial applications to geospatial services. It will then be provided for the various police authorities and will be used to transfer the processing power from one geographical location to another, or to reinforce existing processing powers with additional ones from less needy geographical locations. Additionally, the ease of geographical data and information’s reciprocation will be experienced by all police headquarters at the federal level and the regulatory units at the Ministry of Interior and its strategic partners from civil GIS centers. By using smart apps, it is now possible  to transfer different GIS through wireless networks to policemen’s mobiles and smart phones, and to have secure access  to police geospatial services directly from the field, so as to enhance police work’s effectiveness and efficiency.

Lieutenant Mansour Suleiman Al Shamesi, GIS Infrastructure Branch Manager at the GIS Security Center, said that the project is the main platform for the Federal Central Security Geospatial apps. Through which, it will be interchangeable at the national level; it will also be provided as police geospatial  service to help decision makers and support policemen on the field by using different multimedia devices such as mobile  and smart phones. This will increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and speed of police services and provide a suitable virtual cloud environment capable of providing flexible services for users according to the most sophisticated institutional design standards.

GIS Infrastructure Expert Mohamed Al Tarmah Abdul Rahim, Geographic Information Systems Engineer and Project Manager at GIS Security Center, clarified that the federal security geographical infrastructure includes the GIS Data Center, and the Disasters Recovery Center for GIS Systems, located within a different geographical location, chosen and designed in accordance with the best international practices and standards to achieve the highest levels of security, availability, and performance.

The awards ceremony was attended by Colonel Anwar Abdullah Al Mulla, Head of ICT Department at Abu Dhabi Police; Lieutenant Colonel Faisal Mohammad Al Shammari,  supervisor of the Ministry of Interior’s pavilion  at GITEX 2013, and a number of GIS Security Center officers.

One of the five categories making up the Cloud Computing Award is the “Best Government Cloud Computing App.” Out of the eighty local and foreign organizations participating in this award category, the final competition was between three organizations. The GIS Security Center was declared winner in this category by a judging panel headed by cloud computing experts.

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Photo1: The Award of the Best Government Cloud Computing App for 2013

The Arabic-language text of this announcement is the official, authoritative version. Translations are provided as an accommodation only, and should be cross-referenced with the Arabic-language text, which is the only version of the text intended to have legal effect.

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