The futurist and angel investor Melanie Swan recently visited Dubai. Among her other achievements, she convinced a gaggle of the local twitterati to organise a BarCamp, as we recently reported. She is reflecting on her visit at her blog now, it makes for interesting reading:
"What would have to happen to make Dubai and the UAE have a higher probability of being a long-term world-leading society, to shift into being an ideas and innovation-driven economy?
First, there would need to be a wide-spread awareness and interest in
really being a leading society of the future, moving beyond energy,
cargo, financial services, construction and tourism.
Second would be building a culture of ideas and innovation, having world-class scientists based onsite in a large scale conducting research and development."
Second would be building a culture of ideas and innovation, having world-class scientists based onsite in a large scale conducting research and development."
, and remember to register for
, which Melanie will hopefully make it back here for.
