(MENAFN- Khaleej Times)The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF) to increase knowledge management and enrich specialist Arabic language content.
The MoU was signed by Mattar Al Tayer Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA and Jamal bin Huwaireb Managing Director of MBRF. "This MoU reflects RTA's keenness on benefiting from the resources of MBRF in diffusing knowledge through its 'Book in Minutes' scheme which has had made a quantum shift in leveraging innovative knowledge across the departments of the Dubai Government" Al Tayer said. "As the RTA is making every effort to foster the culture of innovation and enrich the Arabic knowledge content it was keen to sign this MoU in a bid to epitomise its strategic vision of innovation concept through knowledge products of the foundation." Al Tayer said the MoU includes a number of initiatives to spread specialist knowledge. The MoU he said is in response to the directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan to designate 2015 as the 'Year of Innovation' as well as the vision of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to instil a sense of innovation in government entities. "In this regard the RTA is cooperating with the MBRF in selecting the most valuable and knowledge-rich books in the field of innovation in order to summarise and present them in a stylish and attractive shape" Al Tayer said. RTA and the MBRF are already working together to upgrade the knowledge contents of the RTA library and 713 of the foundation's books have been translated for the RTA.
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