7 Essential m-government Mobile Applications Simplifying Dubai City Life

Mobile technology has touched every corner of the world, simplifying our complex busy schedules that form an integral part of modern city life, whether you are living in India or as far as Dubai. Mobile app developers exploit the growing technology to find out solutions that can answer any of our requirements, be it for entertainment or meeting our lifestyle. The Government of Dubai has recognized the rising potentiality and initiated ‘m-government’, campaign to allow public service bodies better serve the countrymen. The many ‘m-government’ mobile applications, in addition to 2000 ‘e-government’ services on the web, are a corrective step undertaken by Dubai’s government to ease out the time consuming public services.  

Now if you face any sewage problem in your locality, there is no need for you to wait for unending hours getting the work done. Even filing complaints on such issues is quite time taxing. These apps will bring you in direct contact with the authority by eliminating the intermediaries who basically slow down the whole process.

Allow me to familiarize you with 7 ‘m-government’ mobile apps rendering public service solutions bought out by Dubai government.

• myDXB

This particular application that comes free of cost is best suited for those flying in and out of Dubai, or need to check on flight details. A location based map that points out the different places of interest and the many retail outlets including fine/casual dining hubs covering cafeterias, confectioneries, bars, fast food centers, smoking lounges etc. present at Dubai’s three sprawling terminals. This application allows you to check on flight timings and navigate across the massive terminals. However, the continuous Pop-up ads can be the cause of irritation for the many app users.

• iDubai

This free government app from Dubai Municipality notifies you on any service that needs help from the civic body. You can get a street view map of Dubai, and input your feedback about the employees on their service rendered to you. The application contains many points of interest such as GPS and street panoramas, also contains a list of pharmacies on duty. However, some users pointed out that street-view maps often fail to work properly.

• mParking

You can now pay for vehicle parking via your cell phone. All you need is to feed in the vehicle number, parking zone number and duration (one hour to four hours) and get a summarized picture of your parking history by week, month or year.

• Start a business

Launched in September, this Smartphone app caters to licensing and business registration services at the Dubai Department of Economic Development (DED) through your iPhone or iPad. iPhone or iPad. This application allows you to register a business, apply for license renewal, reserve/renew your trade name, obtain initial approval of licenses, and pay license fees and fines. But this application is only available for selected platforms.

• DHA

Dubai Health Authority’s free government app help you to locate nearby physicians and doctors, to seek appointments, set reminders for your child’s vaccine, directions to near location DHA facilities, discover a medical facility, maintain and recall your medical records, schedule for a blood donation and give feedback to health authorities. It can also calculate your body mass index (BMI). However the benefits of this application are limited to government medical services.

• Al Ameen Service

This is a bilingual app that comes free of cost, from Dubai Police, available for filing police report on anything unusual sighting in your locality. However, this is a new application having no user reviews as of now.

• Dewa

This particular mobile application allows you to check and pay utility bills in Dubai. All you need is to simply type your Dewa account number to get the details on your electricity, water, sewage, cooling, housing fee and other charges. You can pay off the charges via mPay mobile application. The app also displays various payment centers as well. You can also lodge complaints by sending coordinates and supportive images of defects to the concerned parties. This is undoubtedly a great mobile app for sorting out your many in house and out house utilities while you are travelling.

Wrapping Up

There are few other such ‘e-government’ mobile apps that require worth mentioning:

• Apply for online visa
• RTA
• Pay traffic fines online
• Help during an emergency
• iLingual
• Personalised Nol

The other countries need to get inspired from this move undertaken by the Dubai government placing the interest of its countrymen in the top of the ladder. You must remember a country’s strength lies in its countrymen and fighting for their civic rights is the duty of any good governmental body. Mobile application developers can draw ideas from these applications so that we users can eat the fruit of such m- government apps that protect our civic rights and public services gets praiseworthy.