Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 41 | Page 7

NEWS Emirates Islamic teams up with emaratech to enable electronic payments Residency and Foreign Affairs, Fujairah Municipality and more. E mirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, has partnered with emaratech, a leading online technology solutions and consulting company in the Arab World, to enable individuals and businesses to make electronic payments for a range of government services via the noqodi payment gateway. Through the new tie-up, Emirates Islamic’s individual and corporate Salah Mohammed Amin, CEO of Emirates Islamic, said: “As one of the leading Islamic Emirates Islamic has partnered with emaratech to enable electronic financial institutions payments for government services via the noqodi payment gateway in the UAE, Emirates Islamic is a keen clients can top up their noqodi wallets and supporter of Dubai’s vision of transitioning make eVoucher payments through various to digital payment methods, as it seeks to channels such as the bank’s smartBUSINESS become a Smart City. platform, mobile app and online banking, and ATM machines. “We are confident that our new partnership with noqodi payment gateway will bring This will enable customers to seamlessly greater convenience and ease of use to our make online payments for services offered customers, and we look forward to greater by government departments including Dubai collaboration and new joint initiatives in the Land Department, General Directorate of near future to further enhance our services.” ///////////////// UAE to support EdTech market by US$40 billion by 2022 U AE schools and universities that are digitally transforming are supporting the global education technology market to top US$40 billion by 2022, an industry expert announced ahead of a major education event being held in the UAE. At GETEX (April 17 to 19) education companies and thought leaders will share best practices in digitisation enabling future learning. The global education technology market is expected to grow at 18% CAGR to reach US$40 billion by 2022, according to Valustrat. “The UAE’s strong investment in education technology shows that schools and universities are leading innovations to make campuses safer and more efficient, to enhance www.intelligentcio.com learning experiences, and to prepare students for the future workforce,” said Andrew Calthorpe, CEO, at UAE-based IT infrastructure and information management consultancy Condo Protego, which specialises in education. In the UAE, Condo Protego works closely with leading UAE educational institutions on their Digital Transformation, including inter- campus connectivity and information standardisation, hybrid cloud virtual learning environments and personalised apps. Condo Protego is seeing strong UAE educational demand for Dell EMC Campus Networking Solutions for ensuring campus connectivity, and VMware Workspace ONE for app virtualisation for secure access from any mobile device at any time. Andrew Calthorpe, CEO, Condo Protego INTELLIGENTCIO 7