The Social Services Department launched an innovative initiative by transforming the department’s meeting and training rooms into smart platforms bearing the name “Innovation Oasis” with the aim of supporting and developing innovative ideas that would contribute to cultivating new talents and encouraging the practical environment at the level of the department’s branches in the emirate of Sharjah, simultaneously. With the UAE Innovation Month called for by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, "may God protect him", to strengthen the position of various government institutions through innovation and creativity and transforming innovations into a work and lifestyle approach. Kholoud Al Nuaimi, Director of Performance Management at the Social Services Department in Sharjah, said: The department has established 13 smart halls under the name (innovation oases). These halls have been equipped with smart tools and devices in order to help employees to create and innovate, which contributes to providing social services with high specifications in various fields of the department’s work, explaining that the idea of ​​innovation oases is; It is a hall equipped with all modern and advanced devices and tools and multiple technologies, and was launched in order to provide an optimal environment that contributes to refining skills with innovative ideas, practical workshops and brainstorming sessions that enable employees to innovate and create in the department. She explained the Director of Performance Management; The aim of launching this innovative initiative, which is part of the department's strategy during 2018, is to provide an innovative environment for selecting creative ideas that make the culture of innovation part of the daily activity of employees, as well as holding workshops, meetings and brainstorming sessions in a creative environment that contributes to creating a suitable environment. Encouraging work, creativity and excellence. Al-Nuaimi indicated; That the circuit; And under the leadership of His Excellency Afaf Al Marri. A set of strategic initiatives have been developed to contribute to the realization of the wise leadership vision, in transforming the department into a major destination for innovation. At the forefront of these initiatives that have been implemented is the department’s plan for the year 2018, represented in the “Ruya” program, which is an electronic project that allows inmates of penal and correctional institutions to communicate With their children through an electronic platform, and full details of which will be announced in the coming period. These initiatives that were implemented and implemented by the department during the year 2018 AD, are to encourage and stimulate the creativity of employees, as well as to facilitate the actions of the various customers and beneficiaries of the services of the department.