# Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By 2020 | THINK Digital Partners : THINK Digital Partners > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [227]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Web page), 2016-10-06 (publication data), https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/news/2016/10/06/dubai-mandates-blockchain-government-documents-2020. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015), before the law step (Mattereum, 2017). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Dubai government-on-blockchain context. - Career works it belongs to: - Dubai Blockchain Strategy (2016): Helped create Dubai's government blockchain strategy, which aimed to run all applicable government... - A Blockchain Solution For Identity? (2017): Keynote to the Dutch Blockchain Coalition (BC3) at Techruption: insurance as the way to make different... (suggested by machine) - Internet of Agreements (2017): Paper at the World Government Summit in Dubai on producing legal agreements at industrial scale. (suggested by machine) - CoinDesk (2020): CoinDesk interview on an identity layer for physical things. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Property, NFTs & real-estate transactions (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Dubai (8 here; 41 sources in all, earliest dated 2011, 1 undated); real estate (1 here; 106 sources in all, earliest dated 2013, 2 undated) - Importance: core-text score 0.07 (1.00 is the top), number 651 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [218] [Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md): same career work: Dubai Blockchain Strategy - [265] [European Parliament blockchain presentation May 2017 (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/265.md): same career work: Dubai Blockchain Strategy - On the same works, just before: [766] [Start Talks Vinay Gupta (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/766.md); [289] [test (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/289.md); [276] [Dubai trip notes September 2016 (2016)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/276.md) - On the same works, just after: [39] [Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md); [42] [Home - Mattereum (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/42.md); [271] [Introducing the Internet of Agreements (2017)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/271.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. 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Cite as: Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By 2020 | THINK Digital Partners : THINK Digital Partners, document, 2016-10-06, https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/news/2016/10/06/dubai-mandates-blockchain-government-documents-2020; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [227], https://guptaoption.com/texts/227.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/news/2016/10/06/dubai-mandates-blockchain-government-documents-2020) Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By 2020 A major conversion to a paperless public sector on the cards in the UAE Posted 6 October 2016 by Gary Flood Dubai has just announced a strategic plan today to go completely paperless, with all government documents secured on a blockchain basis by 2020. The initiative is part of Dubai’s push to become a global leader in blockchain tech, and is being framed as a key to increased government efficiency by creating a new “digital layer” for the city’s transactions. “Users will only need to log in their personal data or business credentials once; it will then be updated and verified in a timely manner through the blockchain network in all government and private entities including banks [and] insurance companies,” promised Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future. For example, once the documents have been moved to a blockchain, the organisers of the public sector blockchain push believe the project will create business opportunities for the private sector, with real estate, banking, healthcare, transportation, urban planning, smart energy, digital commerce, and tourism expected to benefit. Plus, the Dubai government estimates its blockchain strategy has the potential to generate 25.1 million hours of economic productivity each year in savings, while simultaneously reducing CO2 emissions. If you liked this content... Dubai issues formal guidance on what AI ethics should look like Why identity security is a government must-have New Blockchain projects funded by Welsh government Digital ID apps set to surge UAE puts ID at the heart of its Smart City push The plan will be built on “three pillars” of government efficiency, industry creation and international leadership, said stakeholders. “The Emirate is constantly working to foresee the future and keep up with the fourth industrial revolution and all the prospects of increased efficiency that come along with it,” said the Crown Prince of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, at the event. The two bodies driving the move, Dubai Future Foundation and Smart Dubai , said they believe sharing blockchain with other countries could lead to easier ways for travelers to cross borders with certain pre-approved forms of identification and pre-authenticated digital wallets and payments. If you are interested in this article, why not register to attend our Think Innovation for Government conference, where digital leaders tackle the most pressing issues facing government today. Register Now --- End of [227] Dubai Mandates Blockchain-Only Government Documents By 2020 | THINK Digital Partners : THINK Digital Partners. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [39](https://guptaoption.com/texts/39.md) Internet of Agreements (2017); the most closely related, [218](https://guptaoption.com/texts/218.md) Blockchain to be breakthrough tech for Dubai and... (2017); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.