The Information Technology Department of Dubai Municipality has recently announced that the iDubai App of Dubai Municipality has been updated with a bunch of smart services aimed at supporting the Smart Government Initiative launched by Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

Mohamed Al Zaffin, Director of IT Department said, iDubai is as an interactive smart channel for individuals and business segment in Dubai. This application contains a group of smart services and information designed to meet the customer expectation through its innovative solutions such as ’Plot Explorer’ to enquire about the status and use of land and ’Public Smart Services’ that covers seven services through which the public can request to remove harmful weeds/ trees, sewage disposal, large size waste collection, agricultural waste dumping, animal’s examination, treatment and bulk waste disposal.

“The app will help public for the inquiry about any transaction status with Dubai Municipality. It also facilitates 137 different notifications related to missing animals, water leakage from drip tubes, cleanness of main streets, cleanness of food organizations, bachelors living in family residential areas, cleanness of park facilities, saloons and others,” Zaffin said.

Finding different places of interests through an interactive map of Dubai in the Information Page will be more convenient than any other map services. In addition, it includes many other information related to Dubai Municipality such as service catalogue, events, news, legislation, projects and a bunch of pictures of old and new Dubai, which tells the story of the city and its journey of development.

The android version of the application for Samsung was launched on 18th of October 2013. The Apple version of the application on iPhone and iPad shall be available from 16th of November 2013.