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A landmark plan involving supplying UAE nationals and expatriates with smart identity cards to replace their driving licence and all cards used in health and other services will put the UAE on the way to a fully electronic state, a police spokesman said yesterday.

Each electronic card, bearing a special number, will include the individual's blood group, fingerprints, and other biological characteristics. It will be linked to all government departments to ensure quicker services.

A new Internet service will soon allow people to carry out automatic transactions with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

The Ministry will shortly launch a 'smart forms' portal to fast-track processing of transactions and provide a complete, end-to-end form completion process for companies, typing centres and individual customers.

The Dubai eGovernment stand at Gitex Dubai 2003 will witness participation by 21 government departments and ministries who will showcase a host of online services offered through the unified portal www.dubai.ae.

The departments will demonstrate the applications of several systems deployed by Dubai eGovernment to enable them to deliver services through multiple channels, including mDubai, the channel for mobile services, and AskDubai, the state-of-the-art contact centre.

The Dubai eGovernment stand at GITEX Dubai 2003 will witness strong participation by 21 government departments and ministries who will showcase a host of online services offered through the unified portal www.dubai.ae.

Dubai e-Government yesterday launched a host of innovative channels, services and initiatives including mDubai, e4all, eLibrary, e-Job and AskDubai, which will complement the portfolio of 600 online services currently offered by the government.

Salem Al Shair, director of eServices, said these new strategies will considerably boost the capabilities to deliver eServices to the community and businesses, and take Dubai e-Government closer to the goal of providing over 70 per cent of public services online by the year 2005.