Dubai government entity · AI platform
Requirements for a government AI wellbeing platform
Challenge
A government entity needed an AI wellbeing platform that would meet DESC ISR v3 and UAE data-localisation rules — before a single line of it was built.
What I did
- Defined the solution and its technical requirements: multi-tenant architecture, AI service integration, content management, analytics, UAE data residency and a three-year cost of ownership.
- Ran focus groups with end users to define the user flows and product requirements.
- Compared vendors for the build, the voice-AI service and the AI chatbot — the chatbot was brought in-house after the comparative analysis.
- Set the data terms for the voice-AI vendor: hosting on a UAE cloud region, transcription inside the UAE, and no vendor access to user data.
Outcome
- One solution blueprint that engineering, compliance and leadership could all work from.
- Data-residency requirements fixed at the start, not retrofitted at the audit.