The Dubai Central Population Registry contains accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date data.
The Dubai government has announced a decision to establish a unified registry for the emirate’s residents, which includes instantly updated data on all detailed characteristics of the emirate’s residents. Dubai.
The decision was issued by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai. DubaiDeputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, in his capacity as Chairman of the Executive Council of the Emirate.
The Central Registry of Dubai’s population contains accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date data. It aims to collect, classify and provide data related to the registry in real time, which contributes to the process of preparing government plans, strategies and policies based on accurate data and information. It also contributes to providing the results of the population census of the emirate periodically and in real time, responding to the implementation of the emirate’s policies related to digital transformation, contributing to the development and provision of government services and programmes efficiently and effectively, as well as preparing future population prediction models to support development plans and formulate economic and social policies.
The resolution stipulated that a registry called the “Unified Registry of the Population of the Emirate of Dubai” shall be established on the digital platform of the Dubai Data and Statistics Corporation, which shall be managed and supervised by the Corporation, in accordance with its powers stipulated for it under the legislation in force in the emirate and this resolution, provided that the registry shall be considered the official and sole source at the emirate level in everything related to population data.
Dubai Data and Statistics Corporation’s specializations
The decision specified a set of tasks and powers for the Dubai Data and Statistics Corporation to achieve its objectives and in coordination with government agencies, including: identifying government agencies and private entities required to provide data to the registry, identifying the data that must be included in the registry based on their needs, whether mandatory or optional, following up and verifying data providers’ commitment to this determination when updating the registry, setting standards related to data quality, description and classification for all categories in the registry, taking into account the demographic classification of those categories, following up and verifying data providers’ commitment to these standards, working to adopt and implement them, and submitting reports on this, in accordance with the legislation in force in this regard.
The institution is also responsible for preparing and approving a plan to provide and update the registry, following up on its implementation in accordance with the standards approved by it in this regard, designing and creating a registry model, linking it with other reference registries in the emirate, preparing a guide on how to use the registry, making it available to government and private entities, proposing and preparing concepts for data related to the emirate’s residents that are of value to data providers, and cases of their use, and coordinating with the “Dubai Electronic Security Center” in everything related to the security and protection of data and electronic systems, including linking with the digital platform, and applying general frameworks for dealing with, processing and storing data, while ensuring its protection through the necessary security measures to ensure that it is not hacked, damaged or changed.
According to the resolution, the Data and Statistics Authority will manage the process of accessing the registry, determine and classify the confidentiality levels for all data recorded in the registry and its outputs, in addition to the main indicators and use cases resulting from it, review the permissions regularly, approve the policies and access permits for the registry, take the necessary measures to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of individual data in the registry, and ensure that the digital platform meets the information security standards approved in the emirate, and the standards for electronic access to data and information to serve people of determination.
