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What is the Future Role of Government? | Khaled Mahdi | TEDxAlShuwaikh


the shock of the locals here Saddam I
think of what
ladies and gentlemen one of the really
interesting topic in Kuwait is to bring
someone to talk about the development of
plan of the country well I can hear some
chickens in there why people sometimes
they don’t believe and what the
government says and how are you bringing
a government official to talk about
something they want to see they were to
them and everybody is worried about what
will be next in the country I’m a
citizen before being in any leading
position in the country and more
important and my role of life is to be a
father or this is really hectic job
believe me and anyone is a father real
he understand what I mean by being a
father and worse to be a mother but I’m
not my story starts with my little
Marion she is in one of Kuwait Romani to
school in escape anyone from the SK get
an answer she is from a sketch is in the
fourth grade class Thursday I had the
chance to go to what they call the
parent conference we go there and listen
to their teachers and what we are
expecting and it came to one interesting
board with every student in the class
writing their hopes their dreams and I
went to my daughter’s I want to know
what her hopes and dreams in life and it
got my attention a very interesting a
statement that she wrote here she said
when I grow up I’m sorry when I grow up
to make a carry out a family business
that’s a great advances in that for a
fourth year old a fourth greatest isn’t
it so she’s been taking the flavor of
running a business
interestingly my job is just draft a
plan to ensure this is happening in the
future every single one of our next
generation and the generation after will
have their own business Durrani I don’t
want them to work for the government I
want them to work forward to the
platform of the private sector to have
their own business they will not be a
burden on the government anymore that’s
the issue then I start thinking more and
more this is a very bad job by the way
in the wait to be in the planning
position because we will sometimes they
mix a planet with execution with
implementation with everything and they
blame you on everything they go on the
road and they said no we have this
problem because there is no planet they
go to the beaches getting all the
garbages from there they said because
there is no bank there’s no
environmental by the way you have one of
the largest tire graveyards in earth
that’s quite them we have problem with
the waste management in the country you
can feel your traffic problem congestion
I have the honor to get my kids daily to
the school get to stuck on the road if
you leave house one minute you’ll get to
stick stuck in the world for a long time
and believe me you look at the other
clowns and you say you know it’s the
behavior or it’s the road or
you will blame but no blinding the whole
story start from understanding the
history of a way to understand when we
beam before and how did women the life
in Kuwait actually right now it give me
a feeling as a citizen of losing hope I
heard many of my friends want to
emigrate from one of the richest country
in the world going to a country which is
maybe less than their GDP for a reason
or another people start to be depressed
depression is not the morale is going
down losing hope except it’s not a
feeling that you want to have in this
country basically the whole plan is
based on creating a happy citizen living
a sustainable life that’s the whole idea
of having a proper a plan in the country
if I ask someone here in the room and
they said you know what do you trust the
government you do it he said no come on
then I asked him what do you work for
he said I work for the government and no
you got for the cover for the government
if you are to play in the from they gave
him a three hundred fifty thousand B but
work for the government after of the 1
million Kuwaitis believe it or not and
they all complain what the government is
doing so when who’s the government just
you who are living and the country and
if you want to go and talk to the
private sector they said there is no
such thing called private sector the
country that’s the truth in this is
statement
we not will elaborate on the school
let’s get me into how the great is live
and their history prior to the first
barrel of oil produced we used to live
in a very sustainable economy though
small the GDP it was very little but it
was a sustainable economy why the
government was sworn the government with
nothing but except ensuring security
collecting tax ensuring social network
in the country most of the economic
activities were done by the private
sector either by the professionals we
call them now a very nice fancy name
professionals meaning you will see the
market you will see the Irish Smith you
will see the tailors you will see the
farmer so all of this half noon now the
doctors the professionals also there
were the financier and the interesting
Willie we used to call them a wash
that’s the financier the one who provide
the fund for MU for the merchants for
the traders the country was a place for
training because it’s connecting the
east to the west
interestingly the sea ships coming from
India incidentally many of our grand
grandfather’s to use the world and India
and this is why we appreciate the Indian
population here in the country so this
is life
let’s give us some historical
they take whatever Goods they’re from
India South Africa’s the east part of
Africa they come back to Kuwait
then they download all of these very
interesting goods with them on the
camels Caravan heading to sham to
Damascus during summer time they send
their kids to fish for turtles is this
fellow for their wives or daughters no
this better were sold in Europe
it said 24-hour seven economy it’s very
sustainable which was very hard and tell
the discovery of the oil one of the
largest reserves of oil that was really
interesting they call it the wolf gets
the wolf kills get us into what we call
the petrol dollars so the most important
to institution and the country is the
KBC the quite Petroleum Corporation and
ki-yay the Kuwait Investment Authority
at that time the 50s it was the first
sovereign fund it was the savior of
Kuwait by the way at that time they
thought about the future saving this
petrol dollars and investing outside of
the country
putting them at what we call the future
generation fund and the rest of the
money was worth distribution mechanics
there was distribution mechanics took so
so many different forms too much
investment on the infrastructure on the
human capitals on the roads and the
hospital and the country was growing
however the principle is wealth
distribution let’s get it
we start to understand the Constitution
and different way
they said that Constitution force the
government to employ more people in the
government actually is not that it is
the job of the government to create jobs
let’s get me into the vision many of us
when I say what is the vision of Kuwait
they will start saying yeah I used to be
an international financial commercial
hub this is a very broad statement
everybody talked about it and I see many
argument while this is can be done or
not to be done well it’s got vision you
cannot set a vision that you can do in
two or three or four years or maybe six
seven years it’s a very long transition
Kuwait’s a strategic position and I’m
going to be aha as to connect the edge
that is to the West all the ingredient
of the geography allow you to do that
Kuwait neutral diplomatic mechanics
allow the country to be in that prospect
but I need to think in more detail about
this vision the vision is to let the
economy run and delayed by the private
sector is to go back to close 20 in
Kuwait institution which said economy is
a collaboration a cooperation between
the public sector and the private sector
they call it fair collaboration fair
sharing it’s a very unique across you
don’t find it anywhere else that shows
how the economy should look like now at
this moment most of these economic
activities the operation has been taken
little bit this way as a host
in the hands of the government the
government operates everything this is
not the right way of running an economy
so now about according to this vision we
will start to enable the private sector
to be the one responsible for the
economic activities
let’s take me to the pillar of what we
call enumerate we talked about altering
modern Kawai moving to new Kuwait they
later maybe in another talk to smart
Kuwait after word sustainable Kuwait
officials we made articulated until 2100
the pillars of the in Kuwait start with
a prop effective public administration a
very small government regulating
government not operating of the
activities government meaning I don’t
need a lot of employees working for the
government because the government need
to be very small and the role of the
government is to regulate and monitor
and make sure the activities are done
problem – you need a creative in human
capital we cannot accept how the
education is being run as we speak in
the fourth Industrial Revolution our
student graduating will not have the
proper tools to be part of this fourth
Industrial Revolution so the education
need to be reformed I don’t call it a
human resource it’s a human capital can
imagine the country without one drop of
oil
you have nothing so we are left only
with a strategic geographical location
and if you main capital
number three so they are telling me to
speed it up but in this a three minute
you know the whole story now what you
need also an infrastructure where that’s
common sense
you cannot operate without a problem
logistics or a proper ICT get me to the
next one which is the healthcare now
without healthcare you cannot operate as
well as well the sustainable and living
environment we should stop living and
make huge houses that actually exhaust
the energy requirement nothing cause
need to be changed otherwise we will not
not have enough or even to burn to
produce this electricity let’s get me
into my last tool the first one and one
of the most important is the healthcare
system it’s one of the important winner
if you summarize all of this whether
they should go into an international
positioning of the country this is in a
nutshell the bearers of a new Kuwait
these are projects everybody heard about
what some of them are they’ve got a
cement projects whether they are needed
for the coming infrastructure you need a
logistic infrastructure
you will require a proper sustainable
cities as well as a proper healthcare
infrastructure and educational
infrastructure that gets me into my last
start which is the most important
January 2017 and this is why I’m telling
you what make this year very special and
different the whole cabinet in this
building stand in front of the Kuwaiti
people telling them we are committed
this is what will make this a plan a
reality thank
you
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