Free Zones in Dubai: Accelerators for Artificial Intelligence in the Gulf

Robert Mogielnicki ()
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Robert Mogielnicki: The Arab Gulf States Institute

Chapter Chapter 8 in Artificial Intelligence in the Gulf, 2021, pp 141-159 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The governmentgovernment of DubaiDubai is committed to advancing artificial intelligenceintelligence (AI) innovationinnovation across the emirate and within the United Arab Emirates, where national strategies and economic policies aim to develop a technology-driven, knowledge economy. Since the 1980s, Dubai has implemented another economic strategy built—in large part—upon a free zone-led development model. The January 2019 launch of the emirate’s 50-year charter demonstrates Dubai’sDubai long-term commitment to free zone development. This chapter presents the first academic investigation of free zones as useful vehicles for the effective implementation of AI technologies. Using a multi-disciplinary, political economy approach, the author argues that AI and free zone-centric economic strategies need not proceed in parallel. Rather, better alignment between AI innovationinnovation and ongoing free zone developmental processes not only complements a range of economic policies, from diversification to coordination between emirates, but also maximizes the impact of AI services and applications by providing an amendable and sustainable environment for AI technologies. The chapter also addresses the social and political ramifications of efforts to better develop and employ AI technologies within free zones, and offers specific policy recommendations for better aligning AI innovation with free zone development.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-0771-4_8

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