FNC AI Experience Examined As Sharjah Delegation Reviews UAE Parliament's Digital Transformation

A delegation from the Sharjah Consultative Council visited the Federal National Council to study how artificial intelligence is used in parliamentary work. The meeting focused on digital transformation in legislative bodies, practical applications already deployed, and lessons that could be adapted across the UAE’s wider institutional framework.

Dr Omar Abdulrahman Salem Al Nuaimi, Secretary-General of the Federal National Council, received the Sharjah Consultative Council delegation. Engineer Matar Suhail Salem Matar Al Muhairi, Assistant Secretary-General for Institutional Development, attended with several General Secretariat staff. Discussions centred on exchanging technical experience and exploring cooperation in artificial intelligence projects that support parliamentary work.

Dr Omar Abdulrahman Salem Al Nuaimi confirmed that the Federal National Council adopts artificial intelligence within a clear institutional strategy. The approach seeks higher efficiency in parliamentary procedures, stronger quality of outputs, and stable digital transformation. This is aligned with national priorities in the UAE and aims to serve the broader public interest.

The Federal National Council presented its artificial intelligence roadmap to the Sharjah Consultative Council delegation. The plan starts with establishing foundations and building capabilities. It then moves to expanding pilot projects, and finally integrates them into a comprehensive intelligence system for parliamentary work. The method follows staged implementation to support sustainability and controlled risk.

The delegation received a detailed explanation of the Federal National Council’s artificial intelligence governance and ethics framework. This framework is aligned with the Federal Government Charter and international practices. It is built on transparency, accountability, protection of data, respect for privacy, and responsible long-term use of technology across all parliamentary platforms.

Engineer Matar Suhail Salem Matar Al Muhairi explained that the artificial intelligence project follows a structured model. Governance comes first, followed by capacity building and planned pilot testing before full rollout at institutional level. The operational design relies on data classification and a secure, scalable environment supported by advanced graphics processors to handle complex analysis and improve real-time accuracy.

Applications of artificial intelligence in parliamentary work

The presentation highlighted infrastructure and operations that enable artificial intelligence services in the Federal National Council. Examples included the smart document reader within the Smart Parliament application, automation of parliamentary session minutes, and a visual content indexing system. These tools improve searching within recordings of sessions and committee meetings and are linked with an integrated parliamentary observatory.

The Sharjah Consultative Council delegation reviewed key artificial intelligence applications in detail. The smart document reader in the Smart Parliament app allows interactive reading, multi-level summaries, extraction of decisions and dates, and automatic minute generation. The system converts audio into accurate Modern Standard Arabic text, analyses interventions by speakers, and produces official minutes with analytical reports. The observatory connects parliamentary recommendations with federal projects and presents oversight dashboards. At the end of the visit, the Sharjah Consultative Council delegation praised the Federal National Council’s experience and stressed the value of institutional knowledge exchange and smart solutions for continuous development of parliamentary work.

With inputs from WAM