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DUBAI, 25th January, 2022 (WAM) -- Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has won the GovTech Innovation Award 2021, thanks to a submission by the Enterprise Command and Control Centre (EC3) in the Smart City Initiative of the Year category of the awards. These awards are granted by Gov Tech, a specialist in granting technical awards for government, semi-government entities and private companies, said an RTA press release on Tuesday. The EC3 has a significant contribution to the smoot...

DUBAI, 25th January, 2022 (WAM) -- Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has won the GovTech I

DUBAI, 25th January, 2022 (WAM) -- Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has won the GovTech Innovation Award 2021, thanks to a submission by the Enterprise Command and Control Centre (EC3) in the Smart City Initiative of the Year category of the awards. These awards are granted by Gov Tech, a specialist in granting technical awards for government, semi-government entities and private companies, said an RTA press release on Tuesday. The EC3 has a significant contribution to the smoot...

Uncomfortable PPE suits may soon be a thing of the past thanks to the innovation of a Mumbai student who has devised a way to keep things cool.

The presidents daughter, speaking today. lets listen. >> we are here to improve the day-to-day lives of the average citizen. thats a core promise, and we are keeping it. together we will unleash the create activity of the private sector to provide citizen services in a way that has never happened before. we will foster a new set of startups so focused on gov-tech, being a leader in the field making the government more transparent and responsive to citizens needs. >> hes talking about this tech s...

Push the fire pit on up. let me push that all the way up. then this leg goes up and then it slips into this bag. >> do the things taste good? >> you know what? i havent tried it. i just got it for the show. >> pretty nifty. >> well barbecue after the show. >> im with you. >> did you bring steaks? >> i brought tofu. >> oh, my gosh. okay. this is great for kids. so you dont want them using your action cam, your go pro, whatever. this is the kiddie zoom action cam from v tech. now, what i love abou...

Kids -- >> yep. you have up to five different lights that you can program for different people or apps to you. theres a teeny tiny light on the side of it that will alert you to an incoming call, text message. and it vibrates you. you can assign different vibrations, too. >> brilliant. >> two shakes for your husband. >> feel it vibrating now. >> yeah. >> when you are out, you want to make sure you take the call from the kids. this is the one. >> exactly. >> what do we have next? >> speaking of k...

Memories and cameras now and video with the tablets. so they really are toys, but they really are tablets, too, and art studios and all kinds of things. >> its very much like a tablet. what do you do with this thing? (laughter) >> all right. and finally, carol, tell us, we have literally 20 seconds. >> and thats the v tech, the v tech the second generation kids tablet and the both are great, i think for kids and seem to enjoy them and like playing the games on them and the camera edition is a wo...

Leapfrog toys. a great product for a kid. >> theyre a great company. we have a lot of products. readers and stuff which are great. definitely give that a try. >> good stuff. the other one i have here, the inn0tab made by v-tech. good educational stuff and very fun. same thing, we have games. music videos, readers. read books. all are age appropriate by the way. all of these will last you for your money will last a good, four, five years. >> what is the age range? >> 4 to 9. they will spend. espe...