This comes within the framework of achieving the goals of the “Dubai Electronic Games Program 2033”, which was launched by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, last November, to make Dubai among the top 10 global centers for the electronic games sector, and to enhance its contribution to Growth of the digital economy and the emirate’s GDP to about one billion dollars by 2033.
Hala Badri, Director General of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, stressed the importance of launching the new visa and its role in enhancing the strength of the cultural and creative industries.
She said: “The Dubai Electronic Games Visa contributes to making Dubai an attractive destination for entrepreneurs, investors, game developers, designers, programmers, owners of innovative ideas, and leading and emerging companies specialized in developing and creating content, gaming applications, creative industries, and artificial intelligence, which consolidates the emirate’s position as a global center for culture and an incubator.” For creativity, and a forum for talent.
Hala Badri pointed out that the long-term visa highlights the uniqueness of Dubai’s environment, the richness of its cultural and artistic scene, its capabilities, capabilities, strong infrastructure, and cultural and social diversity.
She added: “Dubai continues its efforts to attract thought leaders, intellectuals and highly qualified people, and seeks to provide opportunities and open horizons for them by supporting them and stimulating their energies to contribute to achieving comprehensive development and advancing the creative economy, of which Dubai aspires to be the global capital by 2026.”
She pointed out Dubai Culture’s keenness to create sustainable creative climates capable of empowering talented people, which is in line with its sectoral priorities.
Dubai aspires to provide up to 30,000 new jobs related to the electronic games sector by 2033, which reveals the amount of support that the sector enjoys in the emirate, which has employed all its capabilities and infrastructure to attract its pioneers of developers, designers, programmers, entrepreneurs, and companies specialized in developing and creating content. And digital world experiences.
The Dubai Electronic Games Visa is one of the long-term cultural visa categories granted by Dubai Culture to writers, thinkers, writers, artists, intellectuals and creative talents in the sectors of cultural and natural heritage, performing arts, celebrations, visual arts, books and journalism, audio-visual and interactive media, design and creative services. .
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