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Dubai Internet City has created a world class business environment for information and communications technology (ICT) companies to innovate and grow. It is a strategic base for businesses targeting markets extending from the Middle East to India and CIS to South Africa, covering 2 billion people with GDP $ 6.7 trillion.

Dubai Internet City is a rapidly expanding international community of ICT companies. Several global ICT giants are here: Microsoft, Oracle, HP, IBM, Compaq, Dell, Siemens, Canon, Logica, Sony Ericsson and Cisco to name just a few. So are major regional players and a host of exciting start-ups. New phases of expansion are creating space for an even larger community.

Dubai Internet City is located in a Free Trade Zone. Companies joining the community have complete exemption from taxes. Other benefits include a high quality infrastructure and a one-stop-shop for business and technical services. The community also offers a rich network that companies can tap for resources, partnerships and ideas.

Dubai Internet City is fully supported by the Government of Dubai, and has established free-zone specific corporate laws that empower the companies in the community and help them grow.

Dubai has long been the pre-eminent business center in the region. It has maintained this position through openness to new skills and practices, and the cultivation of an innovative and entrepreneurial business culture.

Dubai offers a succession of critical supporting business environments. Its geographical proximity to the talent and markets of the Middle East, Northern and Southern Africa, the Indian Subcontinent and the CIS, combined with the most sophisticated logistic infrastructure between Europe and the Far East, make Dubai the location of choice for businesses serious about the region.

Dubai is politically stable and efficiently administrated. Its government pursues a free and balanced economic policy that has fostered an excellent international reputation, and encouraged both national and foreign capital to invest in almost every conceivable sphere of economic activity. The non-oil sector in Dubai currently contributes around 90% of total GDP, and is expected to grow to 94% by 2005, with manufacturing, tourism and services all growing strongly.

With the advent of Dubai Internet City, Dubai Media City and Knowledge Village, this dynamism is now being transferred to the development of the knowledge economy.

An e-Government initiative has brought the entire government system into the digital age giving online and e-enabled companies yet another incentive to select Dubai as their regional base. Living in Dubai is more than a business choice; it is a lifestyle choice too. A clean, modern, crime-free city, Dubai has been built over the past 50 years to give citizens and residents alike an extraordinary range of places to live and work, rest and play. With some of the best healthcare, education, sports and leisure facilities in the Middle East, Dubai is the place to be.