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A visiting delegation from the United Nations Development Programme in Jordan lauded the e-Government initiative of Dubai Municipality which has made government services easily accessible for the city's residents.

The delegation, headed by Lutfi AbdulRahim, Director of programme, and consists of Fathi Mahmood, Jehad Abdullah Attar, and Omar Mahmood Al Beitar, was briefed on the e-Services being provided by the Municipality to its clients.

Read more: UAE: UNDP team from Jordan briefed on e-Services

The Ministry of Finance and Industry (MOFI) announced that its huge groundbreaking e-Portal project to transform the use of information technology throughout the Federal government has reached an advanced stage.

Details of sections of the portal were revealed at a forum, attended by more all government ministries, and organized in Abu Dhabi by MOFI in tandem with Etisalat represented by E-Company.

Read more: UAE: MOFI e-Portal project steps up a gear

Dubai has established a dedicated counter for e-government services at the Customer Services Centre in the Dubai Municipality Head Quarters.

Khalid Abdel Rahim Abdullah, Head of Customer Services Section said the move goes along with the e-government initiative of Dubai government aimed at making Dubai a pioneering centre of activities.

Read more: UAE: Walk in e-govt service centre in Dubai

Dubai Municipality (DM), in coordination with other service authorities in Dubai, is currently implementing a project to simplify procedures for issuing No Objection Certificates (NOC) to engineering consultants and contracting companies undertaking different types of development projects in the emirate.

The project, part of the DM’s e-Government initiative, seeks to integrate procedures for issuing a unified NOC involving the DM, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) and Etisalat.

Read more: UAE: Dubai Municipality simplifying NOC rules

The Dubai Government has no patience with bureaucracy and is setting new world standards in how to eliminate red tape.

Recently in answer to a question one Dubai official said, 'Bureaucracy? We don't have any!' This seemed to sum up the Dubai approach to government in a nutshell, and things have changed in the past decade.

Read more: UAE: Dubai gets its right on red tape

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