The biggest-ever national brainstorming session to develop health and education

Call for the largest national brainstorming session

H. H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, called upon the citizens to join the largest national brainstorming session to promote fresh thinking and innovation in generating ideas for developing the health and education sectors.

Through his Twitter account, Sheikh Mohammed said: “We want every man, woman and child to join us in the biggest ever national brainstorming session to find new ideas for health and education.” He announced a Cabinet retreat dedicated to the further development of the health and education sectors in the country.

Sheikh Mohammed tweeted: “Embodying dynamic, energetic and successful leadership, please submit suggestions at http://www.uaepm.ae, email video comments to brainstorming@uaepm.ae, and tweet ideas to #uaebrainstorm.”

Earlier, Sheikh Mohammed had directed that representatives of teachers, doctors, nurses, students and parents should take part in the next Cabinet retreat, designed to convey opinions on all the ideas and initiatives to be discussed by the Cabinet.

Since Sheikh Mohammed assumed office as Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE, the entire concept of governance has changed through the innovative outdoor Cabinet meetings held in 2007 at Bab Al Shams desert resort in Dubai and Dhadna in Fujairah. The objective of holding such a retreat reflects his keenness to adopt a flexible approach in public administration and enable it to swiftly advance into the future.

Innovative ideas and suggestions received

A wealth of new ideas submitted to the Emirati brainstorming initiative to bolster health and education development will be considered to encourage the government to work to meet the needs and aspirations of the country, said Sheikh Mohammed.

This came during Sheikh Mohammed’s review of ideas, proposals and posts received through his site and through social networking sites within the UAE brainstorming initiative that was allocated to assemble the largest possible number of ideas and creative solutions for the development of health and education sectors in the state.