Dubai Real Estate Institute, the educational arm of Dubai Land Department (DLD) said it is conducting an executive course focusing on ‘Building Better Cities in the Digital Age’, in partnership with Harvard University.

The course will be held at the institute over two full days (November 16 and 17).

Dubai Real Estate Institute said the course's emphasis will be upon how technology can be used to build modern and sustainable communities, achieving this by outlining the impact that Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the Internet is having on building, regenerating, and sustaining communities all around the globe.

Mahmoud El Burai, the executive director of the institute, said: "In Dubai we have long realised that the huge changes brought about by rapid technological development will produce colossal shifts for cities, and we have long embraced this change in the emirate."

"Services and digital applications will be instrumental towards providing residents with boundless future possibilities for life, work and entertainment," noted El Burai.

Since 1936, Harvard Graduate School of Design has been recognized as one of the world's top design schools, and is consistently ranked number one in North America for its Master in Architecture and Master in Landscape Architecture programs.

The institution has over 13,000 alumni with many famous architects, urban planners, and landscape architects having graduated there. The school is considered a global academic leader in the design fields.

Al Burai said: "In order to cope with these upcoming developments, we must make every effort to coach the next generation of real estate pioneers and leaders, to ensure their readiness to work together with developers, contractors and the UAE authorities responsible for urban planning."

"The course will help them to employ the finest technologies, in addition to proposing proactive solutions, in line with the Dubai Real Estate Institute goal for the deployment of sustainability and real estate knowledge. Furthermore, it will provide advanced academic programmes of high quality through cooperation with prestigious international universities," he added.-TradeArabia News Service