Overview
Demo content — a method, not a system. This use-case was authored for the AI Champions platform as a worked example. It describes how you would run an intake; it does not describe any existing Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi process, tool, dataset or vendor. Everything in angle brackets (<LIKE_THIS>) is a placeholder you must replace.
What this solves
Once a team knows AI exists, ideas arrive faster than anyone can assess them. They arrive as one-liners in meetings — "could AI write the event listings?", "could AI sort the archive?", "could AI answer the visitor emails?" — with no shared shape, so they cannot be compared, cannot be prioritised, and cannot be refused for a reason anyone will accept.
The failure mode is not that bad ideas get built. It is that good ideas and bad ideas look identical on arrival, so the queue gets worked in the order people shouted, and the first thing anyone measures is whether the demo was impressive.
This playbook standardises the arrival. Every idea gets written down the same way, scored the same way, and answered the same way — including the ideas that get a no.
What "done" looks like
- Every submitted idea has a one-page intake record with the same nine fields.
- Every record has a total score out of 25 and a data classification.
- Every record has a named business owner — a person, not a team.
- The shortlist is a ranked table anyone in the room can read in two minutes.
- Every "no" has a written reason and a re-open condition.
Where it applies
DCT Abu Dhabi works across three sectors — Tourism, Culture, and the National Library (established 1981) — regulating, developing and promoting Abu Dhabi as a destination while preserving and presenting its heritage (dct.gov.ae). That spread is exactly why an intake is worth the overhead: a visitor-services idea, a heritage-cataloguing idea and a market-intelligence idea are not comparable on instinct, but they are comparable on a common scoring model.
Context worth stating, carefully: Abu Dhabi government entities deliver alongside the Abu Dhabi Government Digital Strategy 2025–2027 — an AED 13 billion emirate-wide programme targeting the world's first fully AI-native government across all digital services by 2027, including more than 200 AI solutions across government services. It is owned by the Department of Government Enablement, not by DCT (dge.gov.ae). Cite it as the environment you are operating in. Do not present any individual idea as part of it.
The one attributable DCT AI fact, if you need one: in October 2022 DCT Abu Dhabi signed an agreement with the Statistics Centre – Abu Dhabi giving it access to SCAD's AI-based Induction and Foresight Platform and training DCT staff to use data in future plans and strategies (dct.gov.ae media centre). That is the only "DCT does this" AI claim in circulation. Everything else you say should be framed as method.