Dubai Municipality will work with private sector companies and investors to create a futuristic, human-centred version of the city that capitalises on opportunities offered by the metaverse.

Dubai Municipality will launch a programme called One Human Reality Talks, aimed at converging companies and investors to develop the new concept, and will include dialogues with experts, insights, cooperative use cases, and knowledge sharing.

Humans must remain at the centre of this new urban vision, according to Al Hajri, who laid out the elements for a framework based on four pillars: human expectations for their environment, human needs with laws to guarantee privacy, security and ownership rights, and technology functions.