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FUTURE MAP
THRIVING IN THE NEXT NORMAL
MOHAMED BIN ZAYED MAJLIS
FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS
JUBILEE LAB

FEBRUARY 2021
FUTURE MAP THRIVING IN THE NEXT NORMAL - MOHAMED BIN ZAYED MAJLIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS JUBILEE LAB
“The year of preparation for the next fifty years
requires community collaboration
to advance our development drive
and its sustainability, and fulfill
our aspirations to a better future for the UAE.”
H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces

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FUTURE MAP THRIVING IN THE NEXT NORMAL - MOHAMED BIN ZAYED MAJLIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS JUBILEE LAB
THE JUBILEE LAB:   On the year the UAE celebrates its Golden Jubilee, more than
                   100 Future Makers – students from UAE universities and UAE students

  INTRODUCING      abroad – worked together in a Virtual Lab to draw valuable lessons
                   from the past and discuss future possibilities.

    THE FUTURE     During three intense days, they imagined scenarios for the future of the

        MAKERS
                   UAE, sharing ideas, considering risks, discussing the values that should
                   inform decision-making in a time of uncertainty and fast change.
                   H.E. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship
                   and SMEs, joined the final day of the Lab.
                   The MBZMFG Jubilee Lab was designed to engage the views of young
                   people in the UAE – to understand what kind of future they wish to
                   create; in short, to activate a new generation of Future Makers.
                   The outcome is illustrated in the MBZMFG Future Map –
                   it weaves together the most thought-provoking ideas discussed
                   during the Jubilee Lab.

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FUTURE MAP THRIVING IN THE NEXT NORMAL - MOHAMED BIN ZAYED MAJLIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS JUBILEE LAB
THE MBZMFG FUTURE MAP
Four Topics – The Most Thought-Provoking Ideas
To stimulate a productive virtual conversation about the next 50 years,
the Future Makers explored four different topics: New Ways of Learning;
Greener, Smarter, Stronger; Digital World and Creativity Superheroes;
New Opportunities in the Next 50 Years.
In the following pages are the most vibrant ideas that emerged during                   Social and
their conversations – the ideas that were weaved together to create the                 emotional
                                                                                       intelligence
MBZMFG Future Map.                                                                     integration

     NEW WAYS
    OF LEARNING
                                                          New
                                                      technologies
                                                      and creativity                                          Advanced
                                                      superpowers                                          extra-curricular
                                                         blend                                                activities

                                                                             Digital and
                                                                            AI-supported
                                                                             programs
   “The school system has to                                                                                                     Talent-based
                                                                                                                                    learning
    evolve to better respond                                 Interactive,
                                                            experiential,
                                                                                                         Inter-
                                                                                                      disciplinary
                                                                                                                                  experiences
   to a changing society. We                                collaborative                             approaches
 should invest time and money                                  learning

   to better prepare the next
  generation of teachers and                                                business                                       Better
     students, with a focus
                                                                                           international
                                                                                                                        internships
   on collaboration between                                                     New school-
                                                                                                                            and
                                                                                                                         tutorships
     students and fostering                                                      ecosystem
                                                                                partnerships
    a culture of innovation.”
              – Maryam Alawadi                                              government
                                                                                              volunteers

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GREENER, SMARTER,
                                                                                               Social
                                                                                           awareness on
                                                                                           sustainability

    STRONGER
                                                                                               issues

                                                       energy            food

                                                                  New
                                                             technologies
                                                              for smarter
                                                              and greener
                                                               industries       waste
    “We need to raise the level                   mobility

    of social awareness on the                                                                Transition
                                                                                             to a circular
 issues related to sustainability,                                                         economy, from
                                                                                            extraction to
  and change our lifestyles and                                                                disposal
   our mindsets – by putting in                               corporations

   place policies and incentives                Incentives for
  for families and organizations                 sustainable
                                                  practices
   to adopt the right behaviors,                                                           Use of
    and make sure we all start
                                     citizens
                                                                                        locally-made
                                                                                         and greener
       modifying old habits.”                                                             materials
           – Eman Hableel

                                        Sustainability
                                          classes in
                                           schools

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FUTURE MAP THRIVING IN THE NEXT NORMAL - MOHAMED BIN ZAYED MAJLIS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS JUBILEE LAB
Big data in

  DIGITAL WORLD AND
                                                                                   scientific
                                                                                   research

CREATIVITY SUPERHEROES                                    AI for high-
                                                         risk jobs and
                                                           repetitive
                                                             tasks

       “I believe that the future
       will depend on Artificial
      Intelligence: efficiency will                                      Locally-based
        increase, and errors will                                        data storage

    decrease. This will make some
     jobs obsolete, but there will          Art and
    also be new job opportunities.       entertainment
    So the point is: let’s make sure      investments

    we get ready for that moment                          Data privacy
                                                           regulation
      and start investing more in
      the development of AI and
            its applications.”         Fake news                           Advanced
            – Abdulla Bin Dhaher       regulation                             tech
                                                                         solutions for
                                                                          trading and
                                                                         transactions

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES
IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS                                                            Space
                                                                              exploration

           “In the future,
       entrepreneurship will                           AI and
       become crucial for the                     humans: from
                                                  competition to           Hyperloop-
       development and the                          integration           like concept
     sustainment of a country.                                             of mobility

     We need to start building
    a business mindset and an     Awareness on
    entrepreneurship culture –     old and new
                                  mental health
  through platforms where high-       issues                       Start-up
  school students and the youth                                incubators and
                                                              innovation hubs
   can start experimenting, and                                 in universities

      learn how to innovate.”
           – Ghalya Alalai
                                        A culture of
                                      entrepreneurship                               Biotech
                                                                                     and AI
                                                                                  innovations
                                                                                   to improve
                                                                                   healthcare

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THE MBZMFG FUTURE MAP
Five Principles to Thrive in the Next Normal

The ideas discussed during the Virtual Lab were gathered around five          #1 STORIES + DATA
principles included in the MBZMFG Future Map.
                                                                              Technology offers useful operational tools and insights, but it is the role
By highlighting trade-offs and stimulating further new ideas, these           of human beings to weave values, beliefs, and hopes into the narrative
principles can help facilitate future dialogues, inform decision-making       of our future scenarios, to shape our future journey.
and identify promising new directions.

                                                                              #2 CREATIVITY BEYOND EXPERTISE
                                                                              When it comes to addressing the world’s biggest problems, we
                                                                              need a creative combination of different kinds of expertise in order
                                                                              to continue to innovate.

                                                                              #3 RISK OVER CERTAINTY
                                                                              Embracing risk over certainty is what allows people to become
                                                                              protagonists in creating a better future for themselves and
                                                                              their communities.

                                                                              #4 ADAPTABILITY BEFORE PREDICTABILITY
                                                                              As the pace of change increases, it is not the strongest who survive –
                                                                              the most adaptive communities and organizations do.

                                                                              #5 CONNECTORS AND HUBS
                                                                              Complexity augments across all aspects of life, and we need more
                                                                              capable connectors across sectors and disciplines to increase our
                                                                              capacity to innovate and create impact.

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THE MBZMFG
FUTURE MAP

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STORIES +
     DATA
     One of the essential capacities characterizing
     human beings is our ability to create stories.
     We learn through tales and fictions, and we
     find meaning in conversation – that is how we
     share our values and beliefs, our hopes and our
     fears, our ideas and our dreams. From time
     immemorial, storytelling has been playing the
     role of a social glue: it represents the most
     powerful vehicle for sharing knowledge.
     In a world defined by technology, it becomes
     imperative to preserve and enhance our
     capacity to create meaning and to imagine
     new possibilities. Finding ways to combine our
     distinctive capacity to ask meaningful questions
     with AI’s ability to process data will be a
     critical goal in the years to come. If technology
     augments our human capacity to shape new
     directions based on better data, then the
     relationship between humans and data can
     evolve in a productive symbiosis.

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A LEADER’S   Creating and sharing stories is essential to humankind. It is how we
              connect people and ideas, how we inspire and teach each other, across

PERSPECTIVE   time and generations. Who will write the stories of the Next Normal and
              what role will young people play in shaping the narratives of the future?
              In 2021, we have an unprecedented opportunity to invite young people
              in the UAE to shape the stories of the future. The next generation of
              leaders is the largest, most diverse, tech-savvy and best educated in our
              history. The decisions we take today will impact young people and must
              be taken in collaboration with them.
              The MBZMFG Jubilee Lab revealed just how passionate young people
              in the UAE are about having a positive impact on their communities,
              leveraging the power of technology to find new solutions. Their on-
              the-ground perspectives can help us rethink our conversations towards
              change and for the future. Their stories open our eyes, helping us to
              think bigger and more strategically.
              The MBZMFG platform enables important conversations: How will
              young people become nation designers in the UAE? How will young people
              and machines work in the future? What do we need from our education
              systems? How should we govern our relationship with our environment?
              In all these essential questions, the aspirations of the youth need to be
              represented and visualized. By seeking out new ways for young people
              and leaders to connect, MBZMFG gives us all the opportunity to reset our
              narratives on how youth is portrayed. Their ideas matter and will matter
              even more in the context of a fast-changing world.
              This Future Map will eventually live online, as a digital dynamic tool to
              visualize new ideas. Each bubble is an idea and the start of a new story.

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It is now time to grow these bubbles through collaboration and
partnership by creating a new infrastructure of connection, linking
young people in networks with MBZMFG partners and UAE leaders.
Changing the narrative with the youth in the UAE requires changing how
we visualize their contribution to the conversation. MBZMFG is leading
a shift towards a deeper connection to remove blind spots and future-
proof our narratives.

H.E. Mohamed Khalifa Al Nuaimi, Director of Education Affairs Office,
Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi

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AN OUTSIDER’S   Humanity has had a long history of borrowing ideas from nature. […]
                So, if there’s just one idea you take away from this entire essay, let it be

  PERSPECTIVE   Mother Nature’s most under-appreciated trick: symbiosis.
                It’s an Ancient Greek word that means: “living together.” Symbiosis is
                when flowers feed the bees, and in return, bees pollinate the flowers.
                It’s when you eat healthy food to nourish the trillions of microbes in your
                gut, and in return, those microbes break down your food for you. […]
                Symbiosis shows us you can have fruitful collaborations even if you have
                different skills, or different goals, or are even different species. Symbiosis
                shows us that the world often isn’t zero-sum — it doesn’t have to be
                humans versus AI, or humans versus centaurs, or humans versus other
                humans. Symbiosis is two individuals succeeding together not despite,
                but because of, their differences. Symbiosis is the “+”.
                A new chapter in humanity’s story is beginning, and we — living together
                — get to write what happens next.

                Nicky Case, How To Become A Centaur, in Journal of Design and Science.

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CREATIVITY
     BEYOND
     EXPERTISE
     The more advanced and interconnected our
     world becomes, the more creative we need
     to be in order to identify new, unprecedented
     and unforeseen opportunities. Creativity is a
     powerful combination of our innate curiosity,
     our capacity to collaborate and our appetite for
     experimentation. It instills courage in us: the
     drive necessary to innovate in a context that is
     complex, ambiguous and risky.
     Expertise matters and will always do – but
     it will not be sufficient. When it comes to
     addressing the world’s biggest problems –
     climate change, pandemics or social inclusion
     – we will need to combine different kinds of
     expertise in creative ways. We will need to
     seek constructive collisions between different
     perspectives and ways of thinking. The rise of a
     new creative generation will be imperative for
     every community that wants to participate in
     the pursuit of progress.

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A LEADER’S   Creativity and cultural exchange have always contributed to bring us
              together in greater numbers – first in tribes, then to cities and now

PERSPECTIVE   through digitally connected global networks. At a time when our greatest
              opportunities are interconnected at the intersection of disciplines and
              across geographies and cultures, creativity is becoming global.
              In the UAE, we have two distinct advantages when we look at our
              creative potential. One is the diversity of cultures, nationalities, faiths
              and ethnicities. This diversity also includes various modes of creative
              expression. The second advantage is our mastery of and constructive
              approach to technology in general, and digital technology in particular.
              Technological literacy is one of our key strengths.
              How we connect creative minds, artists and entrepreneurs and how we
              empower them with new skills and technology matters more than ever.
              Not only because the creative economy generates jobs – more than
              70,000 jobs in the UAE – but because creativity and culture help us all
              move forward into a new reality.
              The rise of digital technology has transformed the power of creativity in
              our economy. It connects us during a pandemic, it empowers new start-
              ups and it helps local champions grow global wings. We need new skills
              to connect ideas with technology. The real drivers to thrive in the Next
              Normal are entrepreneurship, innovation and connectivity – all of which
              need creativity to be cultivated.
              The UAE is a major player in the region’s creative economy. The country has
              become an innovation hub by investing in and facilitating the creation of a
              large number of creative and media clusters such as Dubai Media City and
              twofour54, thousands of SMEs, and major cultural avenues and spaces.

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We need a new global infrastructure for creativity that is accessible
to everyone. We need broader coalitions of cultural leaders, business
leaders, entrepreneurs, sports brands, faith leaders and community
leaders to amplify the impact of positive initiatives and to figure out
how to direct resources to create more inclusive, more connected and
creatively engaged communities.
The world is observing this year as the International Year on the
Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. In that context, it is
very significant that the UAE will host the third edition of the World
Conference on the Creative Economy in December 2021.

H.E. Noura bint Mohammed Al Kaabi, Minister of Culture and Youth

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AN OUTSIDER’S   How do good ideas usually come into the world?

  PERSPECTIVE
                We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations,
                imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted
                mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified tradition.
                But ideas are works of bricolage. They are, almost inevitably, networks
                of other ideas: we take the ideas we’ve inherited or stumbled across,
                and we jigger them together into some new shape. […]
                Big new ideas more often result from recycling and combining old
                ideas than from eureka moments. The scientist Stuart Kauffman has
                a suggestive name for the set of all those first-order combinations:
                “the adjacent possible.” […]
                The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges
                of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present
                can reinvent itself.
                The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that
                its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens
                up the possibility of other new combinations. The history of cultural
                progress is, almost without exception, a story of one door leading
                to another door, exploring the palace one room at a time.

                Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, Penguin Putnam Inc 2010.

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RISK OVER
     CERTAINTY
     Complexity generates uncertainty, which brings
     more intricate challenges. The acceleration
     of new discoveries and their disruptive,
     transformative impact create unprecedented
     demands on our capacity to handle risk and
     ambiguity.
     Thriving in the Next Normal will require the
     capacity to develop a higher level of mental
     complexity. If we want to unlock the full
     potential of our age we will need to foster
     a mentality that is more tolerant to risk – a
     necessary step toward a 21st-century culture
     that promotes the ability to innovate and to
     continue to transform ourselves and our world.
     This will require a complete rethinking of the
     way people, organizations and institutions
     consider risk, recognize opportunities and
     promote new approaches to solve issues – even
     when the results are not predictable and the
     possibility of failure is real.

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A LEADER’S   Change is inevitable and the pace in which the labor market and our economies are evolving
              require adaptability and innovation more than ever. The UAE do not just aim to survive, but

PERSPECTIVE   we are always aspiring to thrive, from the leadership to every individual. We want to unleash
              the potential of our youth to innovate, take risks, be active, and ideate businesses. We want
              entrepreneurs to be innovative and grow exponentially. Our growth as a country is heavily
              reliant on the growth of our SMEs.
              To exemplify, economic indicators reflect the pivotal role of the SME sector as responsible
              for more than 86% of jobs in the private sector and up to 53% of the UAE’s GDP in 2019.
              MBZMFG creates the context for a young generation to experience what the UAE can achieve
              when imagination meets collaboration to combine ideas and come up with new solutions,
              together with the private sector, academic institutions, and the Government.
              We came a long way: the UAE is one of the world’s most active social entrepreneurship systems,
              ranking 12th in the world and 1st in the Arab world in this field.
              On the year of our Golden Jubilee, we reflect on our past and learn from the present to prepare
              for a sustainable future – to 2071. Our country is a young nation made of young entrepreneurs
              who are able to think creatively and take the essential risks to drive innovation to feed into
              our vision for economic diversification. This is a new and a different time, where we must take
              new decisions amid profound and rapidly changing technological, economic and geopolitical
              conditions. This is a time for new resolve to open a new era of possibility.

              H.E. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and SMEs

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AN OUTSIDER’S   To be an original, you need to take radical risks. This belief is embedded
                so deeply in our cultural psyche that we rarely even stop to think about it.

  PERSPECTIVE   When we marvel at the original individuals who fuel creativity and drive
                change in the world, we tend to assume they are cut from a different cloth.
                [...]
                Like all great creators, innovators, and change agents, [entrepreneurs]
                transform the world because they are willing to take a leap of faith. After
                all, if you don’t swing for the fences, it’s impossible to hit a home run.
                Isn’t it?

                Adam Grant, Originals, Penguin Books 2017.

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ADAPTABILITY
     BEFORE
     PREDICTABILITY
     The Next Normal will be shaped by a sum of
     forces impossible to disentangle, and most of
     the challenges that we will face in the future
     will not possibly be resolved with linear
     processes and traditional ways of thinking
     and working. Adaptability will be required,
     and our capacity to learn and evolve will need
     to increase exponentially as our approaches,
     systems and behaviors will be challenged.
     Participating actively in collective processes
     of adaptation, exploring the possible
     alternatives ahead of us become more crucial
     in a context where we need to work with
     disruption in a way that constructively builds
     on that creative energy. Our communities and
     our societies have to be ready to follow new
     and unprecedented paths in order to harness
     the future.

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A LEADER’S   Future-Proofing the Skills of Youth in the UAE

PERSPECTIVE
              The UAE leadership understands that young people naturally adapt to
              our changing environment and have limitless potential to create future
              opportunities. That is why it is a guiding principle of our Centennial Plan
              to empower youth across all sectors.
              To thrive in the Next Normal, young people will require a specific set
              of skills and abilities. This includes the capacity to shape sustainable
              strategies to lead positive change and the capacity to be agile and
              adaptable, a key necessity in light of the rapid global shifts that affect
              their communities.
              The world can only be changed at the hands of highly responsive
              individuals who can remain decisive when facing challenges. According to
              a World Economic Forum report, 50% of employees will need reskilling
              by 2025. By 2025, digitalization and automation is expected to create 149
              million new jobs requiring high cognitive 21st-century skills. Expanding the
              skills of our youth and making them adaptable to change in a digital era
              will result in more opportunities and options for the UAE in the future.
              Sustainable Skills = Sustainable Opportunities
              With the dawn of a new digital age, the UAE has adopted a progressive
              strategy for skills development. Our founding fathers became aware
              of this vital need decades ago, as the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al
              Nahyan said: “Educating people in itself is a timeless treasure we cherish.
              Science is wealth, and so, we are shaping the future on a scientific basis.”
              Preparing for the future is mainly driven by expanding skillsets, fostering
              and investing in talent, foreseeing changes and optimizing human
              resources. This enables us to turn obstacles into opportunities and
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ensure our readiness for what is to come. Building on the “Sustainable
Skills = Sustainable Opportunities” concept, we must arm youth with
21st-century skills, such as resilience, teamwork, emotional intelligence,
analytical thinking, digital skills, problem-solving and lifelong learning.
This concept is a key constituent of the UAE’s leadership philosophy.
Following the directives of H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zaid Al Nahyan,
President of the UAE, and the vision of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE
and Ruler of Dubai, and the engagement and support of H.H. Sheikh
Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy
Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, our government strives
to prepare young people in the UAE to be leaders of the future.
The Mohamed Bin Zayed Majlis for Future Generations is a perfect
example of our wise leadership’s commitment to provide platforms that
support, educate and empower youth. This is achieved by engaging them
in dialogue and offering the best knowledge sources and skills, which
enable them to create solutions and shape a brighter future for the UAE,
its people and future generations.

H.E. Ohood bint Khalfan Al Roumi, Minister of State for Government
Development and the Future

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AN OUTSIDER’S   […] We live in a world that is both terribly exciting and awfully
                unsettling. A financial crisis that seems to drag on endlessly, despite the

  PERSPECTIVE   efforts of our best minds and most energetic central banks. A historically
                expensive decade of war against terrorists that produces more terrorists.
                A global ecosystem that seems beyond repair. New pandemic diseases
                arriving like clockwork every year. Endless refugee waves. Domestic
                politics that have been transformed into shouting extremism. Every
                one of these problems has exactly the same cause: networks. And by
                understanding how they work, we can begin to shape this age, instead
                of being used by it. ‘Man’s habits change more rapidly than his instincts,’
                the historian Charles Coulston Gillispie once wrote. That’s us. We have
                all the habits of a new age. The phones. The emails. The ADD clicking
                of our keyboards. The hand sanitizers. Now we need to develop the
                instincts. Because anything not built for a network age — our politics, our
                economics, our national security, our education — is going to crack apart
                under its pressures.

                Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense, Back Bay Books 2016.

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CONNECTORS
     AND HUBS
     Humanity’s secret to success is large-scale
     flexible cooperation. We depend on vast
     networks of collaboration in all aspects of our
     lives. Bringing different domains and expertise
     together, connecting different kinds of
     knowledge and perspectives is not only a way
     to tear down the barriers that limit human
     inventiveness, but it is also a possible pathway
     to realize the full potential of our information
     age: a connected world that benefits all
     human beings.
     In the Next Normal, the ability to cooperate,
     and the capacity to build upon diversity in our
     communities will help foster inventiveness
     and novelty. This will require being able to
     bring people together to create something
     new across boundaries – from geographic to
     cultural, from across industries to those we
     have created across domains – and to build
     upon inclusion and collaboration.

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A LEADER’S   To thrive in the Next Normal, our students will need to think creatively
              about how we organize our societies and upgrade our economic systems.

PERSPECTIVE   We need new ideas for delivering key services like education and
              healthcare, new ways of thinking about jobs and new ways of organizing
              our cities and sustainability models through technology. The triad of
              future, innovation, and technology has become a priority for countries
              who wish to develop successfully and it is even more important to the
              UAE in the pursuit of our Centennial goal of being a leader in all fields.
              To succeed, we need to train a new generation of breakthrough
              connectors. A radical new mindset for collaboration is needed to drive
              forward the transformative change required. As educators know, new
              ideas spring more often from collaboration with others, and collaboration
              generally improves when people excel at adaptability, creativity, curiosity
              and open-mindedness – the traits of connectors. In the new reality we live
              in, we must learn to look at everyone as a potential partner and learn how
              to build partnerships, unexpected as they may be.
              The UAE government is directing all its efforts towards shaping the
              future, the drive behind our excellence in every sector. Likewise, all
              the work we do across the education sector is aimed at developing
              competencies to help young people shape the future and ensure the
              wellbeing of our community.
              Technology has enabled learners to overcome time and place restrictions
              and easily acquire knowledge and skills, as well as customize them to suit
              their needs and conditions. A smartphone is all one needs to connect,
              network and exchange knowledge online, as well as establish partnerships
              and receive support. In this context, collaboration and communication
              skills are central.

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To collaborate differently, we need approaches like MBZMFG to
encourage young people to think more broadly and to actively
participate in shaping the new landscape. By investing in new skills,
by building collaboration between educators and employers, we can
redefine the future of work and innovation with young people. If we
succeed, the UAE will be better prepared to leverage the positive
impact of technology to find positive solutions.
Many professions will become obsolete, making way for new ones.
Thus, the most important thing to work on is our ability to learn, develop
new skills and be flexible, enabling us to identify opportunities and seize
them. In the midst of such growth, we must remember to preserve our
values and pride in our national identity and culture, which empower us
to walk into the future, confident of our capabilities and ability to excel.
We are optimistic about the future and have high hopes for our youth.
We all celebrated the success of the Hope Probe mission in February.
Personally, I am filled with pride to see graduates from our local
universities working as part of the control room team at the
Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.

H.E. Hussain Al Hammadi, Minister of Education

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AN OUTSIDER’S   Unlike the Enlightenment, where progress was analytic and came from
                taking things apart, progress in the Age of Entanglement is synthetic and

  PERSPECTIVE   comes from putting things together. Instead of classifying organisms, we
                construct them. Instead of discovering new worlds, we create them. And
                our process of creation is very different. […]
                This is the elegance of the Entanglement: a new expression of beauty
                emerging from process. Entanglement artifacts are simultaneously
                artificial and natural; they are both made and born. In the Age of
                Entanglement, the distinction has little significance.
                As we are becoming more entangled with our technologies, we are
                also becoming more entangled with each other. The power (physical,
                political, and social) has shifted from comprehensible hierarchies to
                less-intelligible networks. […] We must watch the flows of information,
                ideas, energy and matter that connect us, and the networks of
                communication, trust, and distribution that enable these flows.
                This is the nature of our age.

                Danny Hillis, The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement,
                in Journal of Design and Science.

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FUTURE MAKERS

Aaesha Ali Alshehhi              Fares Saleh Alali                 Mariam Abdelkarim AlHamadi      Noura Omran Alnuaimi
Aamer Abdulla Alshehhi           Fatema Almarzooqi                 Mariam Abdalla Alnaqbi          Noura Mahmoud Alobeidli
Abdalla Hussain Alobeidli        Fatema Ahmed AlNuaimi             Marwan Abdulfatah Alali         Obaid Mohammed Al Hebsi
Abdulaziz Amer Aleissaee         Fatima Sultan Alketbi             Maryam Al Moosawi               Omar Saeed Aldhuhoori
Abdulla Mohamed Almarzooqi       Fatma Ahmad Al Moosawi            Maryam Saeed Alawadhi           Omar Abdulaziz Alnuaimi
Abdulla Bin Dhaher               Fatma Abdulla Alattar             Maryam Nasser Alraeese Rustam   Omar Saeed Al Yaaqoubi
Abdullah Abdulrahman Al Hashmi   Futoon Saeed Alshehhi             Maryam Hussain Alawadhi         Rashed Saif Almarri
Adnan Mahmoud Alhashimi          Ghalya Ahmed Alali                Maryam Ali Khalaf               Rashed Assad Hormoudi
Afra Saeed Aldoobi               Hajar Ahmed Abed Alktifan         Matar Mohammed Alhammadi        Reem Khaled Aldhaheri
Afra Omar Alghoul Alsalami       Halima Ahmed Alshehhi             Mayid Abdulqader Alshaer        Roqaya Mahmoud Abuzayda
Aisha Abdallah Aleissaee         Hamad Abdulnoor Alkhoori          Meera Humaid Almarri            Rouda Mohammed Alhajeri
Alanood Abdulwahab Alblooshi     Hazza Salem Alazizi               Mohamed Abdulla Almaeeni        Saeed Ali Almeqbali
Alanood Mohammed Alshehhi        Humaid Bin Rashid Binbishr        Mohamed Tariq Almutawa          Saeed Salem Almehrzi
Ali Abdulla Alhaddad             Jawaher Mohammad Aljanaahi        Mohamed Zainal Alzarooni        Salma Majed Almansoori
Ali Ahmed Ali                    Jumana Mahdi Abulhassan           Mohamed Abdulla Alsalami        Sara Naeem Fekri
Ali Asim Almheiri                Jumana Mohammmed AlAli            Mohammad Saeed Alshimmari       Shamma Helal Alkhaili
Ali Fareed Aldarwish             Kaseeba Matar Alqaydi             Mohammed Abdulhakeem Alameri    Shatha Nabil Al Falasi
Aliyaa Ismail alblooshi          Khalifa Rashed Alshaali           Mohammed M. Mubarak Albreiki    Shaymaa Abdulla Alfarsi
Alyaziah Saif Alkindi            Khulood Mohammed Alhosani         Mohammed Asaad Farajallah       Suaad Mohammed Alhammadi
Amel Abdalkarim Alali            Latifa Ibrahim Al Ali             Mohammed Ali Al Ahbabi          Sulaiman Faraj Alaleeli
Ayesha Yaqoub Alhammadi          Mahra Salem Al Jneibi             Mohammed Rashed Alsaraidy       Sultan Ali Alblooshi
Azza Abdala Aljuwaied            Mahra Khalifa Alshamsi            Muath Abdulla Alhashmi          Sultan Abdulla Aldhaheri
Deema Ahmed Alhammadi            Mai Khaled Lootah                 Musad Ali Aloodi                Sultan Mohamed Saleh
Dhabia Khalid Almansoori         Maitha Salem Alshamsi             Naama Mohammed Alfalasi         Thuraya Ahmad Almansoori
Dhabya Abdulla Alhosani          Maitha Ibrahim Alblooshi          Nada Alblooshi                  Wadeema Ahmed Almuhairi
Dhaher Al Mheiri                 Maitha Yousef Al Rumaithi         Nada Albustani
Eman Hableel                     Maria Rashed Aljaberi             Njoud Omar Alharmoodi

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