Thank you so much. This is for me. Thank you, Excellency, thank you so much.

I greatly appreciate your time. I think this is the best closing of my trip to your country. You have wonderful and beautiful country. Can I have a picture?

Yes, I heard about this example.

Ongoing management of the business.

I’m much more favorable in having a common tool. It will help us to managing in a fair way all the companies.

I told you the taxation is different from here and there, so this is the idea. Or something different. We prefer a tool that is commonly used by everybody, and on the top of it, each country will add its own need.

We can do it in several ways. One way is I create a tool. The tool is an online management. Let me say like this multinational companies, you create a program, and after a government come and buy it, and the government to use it should be updated to the ...

I need to go beyond. I would like, with your help, this one‑stop shop, it will be an online one‑stop shop. You can register company, you can pay, you can do through this element. End of next week, I will share with you the concept we have.

A lot of government have what they call a single window, the one‑stop shop. You go to this place and this place. If you want to create a company you don’t have to the Ministry of Economy, to the City Hall, to the Ministry of Environment. In one place, you ...

Perhaps I will need your help, and will share with you. We are creating this online platform for free zone management. Means when the person come and want to register a company, he will not run till today slowly, slowly.

Yeah.

We met with the deputy minister today.

I will share with you also the concept we have established for the smartness, the smart project. From there, you’ll let us know, if you don’t mind, how you can help us.

As soon as I’m back to Dubai ‑‑ I’m flying this night, so I will reach Friday early morning. Friday and Saturday is our weekend in Dubai. Sunday, I will share with you the concept of our business‑to‑business platform.

Yes.

This is, Excellency, in few words, our project. I just have been with the Minister Foreign Affairs. I have been with the Fund for International Collaboration. We need also your support, your cooperation, your knowledge, your know‑how to materialize this project.

Any free zone should be a good place to work. Quality of job, right of the worker, everything considered here. Finally, I need these 3,500 units to have a corporate social responsibility program in which we involve gender, we involve women, we involve kids. We give them back what we ...

The same point, till today, Excellency, when we speak about zones, we speak about two elements. The free zone authority and the investor we attract. We forget one element which is the most important element of this, the worker.

Innovation in the management ‑‑ we cannot manage today a free zone in the same way we have been managing it in 30 years ago. No. The third pillar is sustainability. We understand by sustainability, clearly I have a certificate called Green Zone Certificate. We need to be friendly environment.

Just five percent are multinational. The other are micro, small, and medium enterprises. This is the real engine of innovation of development. We cannot do anything within the country if we don’t help this community.

Innovation ‑‑ we need to help entrepreneurship. For each one of my 3,500 units has a dream, should have an incubation center. It will be impressive if we can reach there. I mentioned that we have two million businesses within the free zones.

It’s referenced. Now, we have also agreed that economic development is not enough for the people. We need another step. The other step is prosperity. This is why I launch this program. I call it the Free Zone of the Future. To become a free zone of the future, we ...

Today, we have been doing well as these 3,500 units called free zone. We have contributed, and everybody recognize that we contribute to the economic development.

Certification ‑‑ we need to protect goods. We need to protect intellectual property. We need to protect persons within the zone. Tech ready ‑‑ we need to use the smartness and the technology to make the management of the zones.

Each one of the three elements, Excellency, has three pillars. Here, we have observed that the 3,500 manager of the free zone are 45, 50‑years‑old people. They need an online education to upgrade their skills. There is a need.

Yes. To become a free zone of the future, you should be the best place to do business in the country, you should be innovative, and you should be sustainable. This is how we will develop. I name it prosperity.

The future project is called Free Zone of the Future. It is called Prosperity. What is a Free Zone of the Future? It is a combination of three elements.

The projector shows other people that we were talking with. This is the program. Is called the Free Zone of the Future. To explain myself, Excellency, I have immediate need, and I have future project.

We have to do more. To have to do more is being free zone of the future. A free zone of the future as it is defined, Excellency, in the document I will give you, are three elements. One, the program is the following. Can I give you the program?

Prosperity is you create wealth, and this wealth is shared with the population. That is this. We need to upgrade the objective of the zone. Till today, we have been recognized as a tool for economic development. We need to improve using technology. We need to improve using business‑to‑business platform. ...

The audience were people from this country, and they said they didn’t see anything from this growth. We need to move. We in Dubai, for example, we created a ministry of happiness. Let’s say there is a step between development and happiness, which is prosperity.

Economic development is not enough. We need to take countries to an upper level. I remember I had been in Nairobi, Kenya. Four minister of economy, myself, in one panel of discussion. The four minister of Kenya, Senegal, Nigeria, and South Africa were saying that they have reached six percent ...

This project, which is giving back to the society what the society give is called the free zone of the future. I brought some information with me. I called it prosperity. All the governments today are looking for the economic development as growth.

The following year, 30 of these young talent created 30 companies, which is also good for the free zone. The free zone has now new company. Also, it’s good for the population. This is, in few words, what I’m looking for.

The idea, one of the way to return to the society is through entrepreneurship, an incubation center. It is a win‑win situation. Dubai Silicon Oasis, when they launch the incubation center, they incubated 100 local talent.

We went to the three big ones. I was managing there. We went to Schneider, Fujitsu, and Philips. With them, with half of the money from us, half of the money from them, and their knowledge, we created a fund. With this fund, we created an incubation center.

Not all the country are able to do it, and this is not really, really real. The idea, I need my zones to give back to the society for the society to give them. For this, I give you an example. Three years ago, one free zone in Dubai, Dubai ...

The question, what is in the society from these 3,500 free zones? Some countries like Costa Rica, like Uruguay, have done a very deep study. They said for each dollar we less collect, we create five dollars with investment. It’s OK.

My other objective is a mid, long‑term one. As we put here, all these free zones are till certain point less tax collection for the country. It means you, to attract investor, you give them incentives. Till certain point, these incentives are privileges.

These are the main objective I have. I need to make my zones tech ready. I need to make my zones smart. I need to have the companies ‑‑ the small companies within the zones ‑‑ speaking, communicating, and doing business together. This is, Excellency, my immediate objective.

Let’s say Shanghai Free Zone is 100 square kilometer. This is a city. Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai, it is 75 square kilometers. Or even 10 hectares. If you have cars, if you have people, you need to build this smartness.

There is a lot of elements of smartness within the city. At the end of the day, free zone, export‑processing zone, or free‑trade zone is a small city. Whatever we reach within the big city can be applied with this too.

We need also your help, and the capacity building, and your experience, your experience of your country, to create this online management of the companies. This is my two immediate needs. The idea it is another need is we have spoken a lot about smart cities.

I’m also interested in another way. Today, you go to the almost 30 or 40 African country, and they register these companies with a pen and a paper. You go to other place, like we have in Dubai, and you have your smartphone and you can register the company.

It’s too large. The idea is yes, I need their know‑how, I need their technology, but I’m not only interested in business. I’m interested through this big platform and capacity building for the small, medium enterprises to create a community so they can speak, exchange best practice.

Before joining hand, I need your help. We need to make the best ever platform from business to business. This is one element.

We need to create this business‑to‑business platform. I started working on it. I need to make it stronger. I need to make it more useful for member.

As I mentioned, Excellency, before, we have two million companies in this area. Five percent of these two million companies are multinationals. They don’t need us. The other 95 are micro, small, and medium enterprises, and these one needs us.

Yes, and your port free zone. The objective I have in my mind and for this organization are the following. As you have made previously, you have companies here. A free zone is as healthy as the companies within the zones, are doing well and are doing business. There is ...

This is the introduction. How you can help? Several elements. I had the pleasure, and thank your ally for it. I visited your ministry of transport and communication. I visited your customs authority. I visited the export‑processing zone. I visited also your...