Dubai Internet City

Since its official opening in 2000, Dubai Internet City (DIC) has grown to become the Middle East and North Africa’s largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Business Park, hosting both global and regional companies. DIC offers an environment that attracts all the elements of the ICT value chain and helps IT and Telecoms businesses develop, innovate and grow while enjoying free zone benefits of 100% business ownership and a tax free income as well as rich networking opportunities, industry building programs and government services.

DIC also hosts the Majid Bin Mohammed Innovation Center in5, a technology start-up incubator that aims to foster entrepreneurships and drive innovation. Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Linkedin, Yahoo, HP, Dell, Intel, Booking,com and Cisco are just some of the global ICT companies that serve the Middle East and beyond from offices in DIC.

Dubai Internet City is one of the largest Information and Communications Technology (ICT) business parks in the Middle East and North Africa region. UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced Dubai Internet City at a Gala Ceremony in October 1999. This announcement generated a huge interest from ICT companies, resulting in the Licensing of 100 companies in January 2000. 

As a knowledge-oriented business model, DIC was the pioneer behind the creation of the business park concept in the region and today, hosts well over 15,000 knowledge workers. 

The ICT business park hosts a dynamic international community of IT companies which include Fortune 500 brands as well as a number of growing enterprises, entrepreneurships and ventures: Microsoft, Dell, Intel, IBM, Canon, General Electric and Cisco just to name a few. 

Built inside a free trade zone, DIC is a strategic base for companies targeting emerging markets in the neighboring regions. DIC’s markets extend from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent and from Africa to the CIS countries, covering three billion people. 

DIC provides an environment that attracts all elements of the ICT value chain, and in addition, has developed several programmes that can be leveraged by the community to explore and expand channel development opportunities. Companies are privy to an advanced Metro Ethernet broadband infrastructure and a range of business-enabling services including government transactions. DIC also has the world’s largest commercial IP Telephony network.

Dubai is the ideal base for multinationals targeting markets in Central Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Asian Subcontinent and the Eastern Mediterranean. These regions have a population of over 2 billion people and a combined GDP of US$ 6.7 trillion.

I think it is really good that for example Dubai realised how internet, communication and information are important in the every day's life. Specially for Dubai because the city is one of the top modern cities in the world and it cannot exist successfully without the DIC.


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