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We the UAE 2031 Strategic Intelligence — the UAE Embeds a WEF-Built AI Platform Across Every Ministry

United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi · See the United Arab Emirates profile · See the Abu Dhabi profile

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The UAE Prime Minister's Office and the World Economic Forum launched an AI-enabled Strategic Intelligence platform pooling 450+ sources and 2,500 experts into briefings on 78 policy areas, embedded across ministries for Vision 2031 - with no independent impact evaluation yet.

450+ sources
Global information sources drawn on by the platform (2024–)
2,500 experts
Experts contributing input to the platform (2024–)
78 policy areas
Policy areas covered by AI-enabled briefings (2024–)
8 councils
Strategic Intelligence Councils established (2024–)

Details

Promoter
Prime Minister's Office, United Arab Emirates, with the World Economic Forum
Period
2024-
Keywords
policy foresight, strategic intelligence, generative AI, cross-government decision support

Context

The UAE's 'We the UAE 2031' national vision sets economic, social, diplomatic and environmental goals for the country's next development phase. To help ministries track fast-moving global trends against these goals, the UAE Prime Minister's Office partnered with the World Economic Forum (WEF) to adapt WEF's global Strategic Intelligence knowledge platform for government use.

Activities

Launched in October 2024, the platform draws on roughly 450 global information sources and input from around 2,500 experts to generate AI-enabled briefings across 78 policy areas spanning the vision's four pillars (Forward Economy, Forward Society, Forward Diplomacy, Forward Ecosystem). Eight Strategic Intelligence Councils were established alongside the platform to turn its outputs into recommendations for the Prime Minister's Office, and access has been extended to ministries, councils and partner organisations government-wide.

Results

Official UAE and WEF communications describe the platform as now embedded in day-to-day governance, letting ministries compare scenarios and monitor emerging trends against Vision 2031's pillars. Neither the UAE government nor the WEF has published a quantified assessment of how the platform has changed specific policy decisions, timelines or outcomes since launch.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Launched October 2024; continuous operation with no reported end date.
Staffing & skills
UAE Prime Minister's Office, World Economic Forum (platform partner), Eight Strategic Intelligence Councils (advisory bodies feeding recommendations to the Prime Minister's Office), Ministries, councils and partner organisations (platform users)

Conditions for success

  • Adaptation of WEF's existing global Strategic Intelligence platform rather than building from scratch
  • Dedicated Council structure to convert platform outputs into actionable recommendations
  • Government-wide access extended across ministries and partner bodies

Common failure modes

  • No quantified policy outcome, decision-time, or accuracy metric published since launch
  • Underlying sources, weighting methodology, and outputs are not published for public scrutiny

Where it fits

Governance type
national government (federal Prime Minister's Office) with international NGO partner
Scale
whole-of-government
Income level
high income (UAE)

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