UAE’s telecoms regulator adopts a new identity

  • Date: 13-Apr-2021
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Technology
  • Country:UAE
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UAE’s telecoms regulator adopts a new identity

The UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has rebranded, the entity announced on Monday.

Its new identity follows a decree in September last year which changed the authority's name, reflecting its broader remit. The authority's board voted to adopt the new name at a board meeting in December.

“We are witnessing a full digital transformation … electronic government was started before 2000, mobile government was started in 2013 and today we are talking about a digital government supported by data and [the] Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, TDRA's director general, told an online roundtable on Monday.

“Digital government is a