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AED 20.00

ISBN: 978-9948-798-07-1

24 May 2023
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AI and Big Data in the UAE’s Fight Against COVID-19

H.E Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti

Preface

Whether we call it the Wuhan virus, the novel Corona Virus or COVID-19, this pathogen is the invisible enemy that has wreaked havoc on a global or biblical scale at an unparalleled rate. There are two reasons for this. First, we live in the age of globalization, where the world is a small village both on the virtual and, more pertinent to our discussion, the physical level. Although globalization has immensely benefited humanity, it has also exposed a significant vulnerability, exemplified by the capacity for diseases and viruses to spread quickly from one end of the earth to the other. In addition to globalization, the virus’s characteristics also contributed to the severe impacts it had, since none of the recent illnesses that outbreak around the world were as severe as COVID-19. Unlike other outbreaks, especially SARS and MERS, COVID-19 has a much lower fatality rate of about 3.4 percent1 and is more infectious. On the other hand the fatality rates for SARS and MERS were 9.6 percent2 and 35 percent, respectively. It may appear counter-intuitive at first, but because of its low fatality rate, a greater number of infected people would live on and spread COVID-19 than those who would live on and spread SARS or MERS…

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Al Kuwaiti is currently holding the position of the Managing Directorof the National Data Centre under the Supreme Council for National Security. He is also working as Assistant Professor (Adjunct) of Homeland Security Program at Rabdan Academy. In his current role Dr. Al Kuwaiti aims to create a fully governed approach to data privacy, sharing and processing as well as the unification and connectivity of government systems and digitization towards a smart government. His interests are consulting on detecting, monitoring and responding to cyber warfare, Network Forensics, Corporate Governance & Process, and national cyber policy. He is an honorable member of Society of Engineers –UAE, IEEE Society, Golden Key National HonorSociety and Computer Society. He is a visiting lecturer on Cyber Security at few universities such as Khalifa University and National Defense College in Abu Dhabi.