REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abu Dhabi has been honored as the inaugural recipient of Esri’s Smart Government award at the company’s annual user conference in San Diego, California. With the increasing use of geographic information systems (GIS) in the country, the Abu Dhabi Systems & Information Centre (ADSIC) launched the Abu Dhabi Spatial Data Infrastructure (AD-SDI) initiative in 2007. Today, the initiative includes more than 70 government and quasi-government agencies. Sectors in