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Dubai Road Naming Committee promotes

community participation by launching ‘Roads

Naming Suggestions platform’

05/07/2024

- The platform enables the public to suggest names for roads that reflect national identity and heritage,
further narrating stories of the past

- It will further reinforce the revival of heritage meanings and designations, highlighting Dubai's national
identity and reflecting its history, legacy, and values

Al-Hajri:

• “The platform showcases our efforts in reviving national meanings and nomenclature of Dubai, further
serving as a testament to its history, values, cultural, civilizational, and social wealth and consistent with its
future growth.”

• “The platform serves as a digital system that enables the public to participate in proposing names for roads
and streets across Dubai that reflect our national identity and tell stories of our past.”

Dubai, UAE, July 04, 2024,

Dubai Road Naming Committee, the entity that designates names for roads and streets in Dubai, launched
the platform Street Designation Proposal under the supervision of Dubai Municipality. The platform aims to

enable public participation in proposing names for roads and streets across Dubai. This is in line with the
Committee’s objectives of preserving the legacy of the past, promoting civilization, staying updated with the
Emirate’s future development, and highlighting its achievements of high value.

H.E. Dawoud Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality, Chairman of the Dubai Road Naming

Committee, stated that the platform is part of the efforts and plans of the Integrated Committee to promote
community participation in submitting proposals for naming roads and streets across various areas of the
Emirate. This is in accordance with approved classifications that aim to revive heritage names, highlight

national identity and social and cultural characteristics that reflect the emirate’s history, heritage, values,
social and cultural wealth, and consistency with future development and orientation.

Al Hajri said: “The new platform serves as a digital system, allowing the public to suggest names for streets
and roads across Dubai, keeping in mind a comprehensive method and specific criteria that reflects our

identity and interrelationship between past, present and future of Dubai. It aims to revive valuable historical
meanings, heritage, and urban monuments, in line with Dubai’s leading global position and reputation, further

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