Comments on: Michael Strong Talk: Free Zones And The Cambrian Explosion In Government

By: Free Cities and Seasteads: The Ultimate Low-Hanging Fruit? « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:01:43 +0000

[...] required the costly (and sometimes bloody) toolkit of revolution or exodus to the frontier. But the Thousand Nations vision – a global industry in rules, arbitration, and entrepreneurial communities – need not be [...]

By: Travis Henry

Travis Henry — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:23:11 +0000

Thanks for this Michael.

I recognize you as a warrior for freeing the Economy from the shackles of Government.

I also admire your idea for creative innovation in legal systems, and your feeling of solidarity with the humanity of Senegal.

You offer an impelling picture of the victory of Corporatism over Statism.

We at Threefold World offer illustrations of a future where the Nation-States are changed into Tri-Sector Societies, with the Business Sector literally achieving independence from the Governments:

https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow

A Tri-Sector Senegal is shown here: https://picasaweb.google.com/TraverseTravis/ThreefoldSenegal?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNT80J6oxf-31gE&feat=directlink

Best wishes,
Travis Henry

By: Can you spot the change in this video? Most can’t — and most don’t notice the world changing, either « David McElroy

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:37:53 +0000

[...] such as the current one coming for Honduras and in ideas from people such as Michael Strong (free cities) and Paul Romer (charter cities) and Patri Friedman [...]

By: Updated Recommendations Page « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Updated Recommendations Page « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:47:50 +0000

[...] Michael Strong’s talk on Free Zones at the 2009 Seasteading Conference [...]

By: Free Zones as an Additional Option for the Cambrian Explosion in Government « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:05:38 +0000

[...] and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All The World’s Problems. There’s also a video of Michael giving these ideas as a talk. –Editor Dubai Before and After Free Zone Economic [...]

By: Cool Heads And Blazing Hearts « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom

Cool Heads And Blazing Hearts « Let A Thousand Nations Bloom — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:55:09 +0000

[...] in the performance of government unless we Let A Thousand Nations Bloom by opening new frontiers, autonomous free zones, and charter cities. Analysis matters: blazing hearts need cool heads. Yet without a community of [...]

By: flowidealism

flowidealism — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:15:21 +0000

Hi Mark,

Of course I agree. I’m interested in designing the quickstart opportunities to maximize marketing and public relations impact.

Best,

Michael

By: Openworld

Openworld — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:02:08 +0000

Michael,

Superb overview of success-sharing free zones and their revolutionary possibilities.

Two comments –

1) The local residents and civil society groups can be early beneficiaries of substantial funds. For this to happen, a “quickstart” free zone should provide a visible demonstration — on a relatively small initial site – of the reality of a new, world-class business climate in the country. Once the transformed business climate is clear to all, a global tender can then be held for private developers to bid for rights to develop a large, associated free zone expansion area. The terms of the tender can include payment by the zone developer of an upfront fee for a long-term development concession. This value of a concession to develop a new Singapore or Hong Kong-scale can be substantial, making it likely that residents and allied civil society groups can reap an early windfall from the free zone.

2) The local stakeholders can also be progressively vested as owners of the zone land/infrastructure under 20-30 year “Build-Operate-Transfer” agreements. Such BOT concessions are widely used in developing countries to align the private sector investor interests with that of key institutions and constituencies in the sponsoring country. Because the local parties are from the outset set to inherit the privately-developed free zones, they are also incentivized to sustain the maximum transparency and quality of the business climate.

A number of these success-sharing ideas are developed in the Women’s Empowerment Free Zone paper that Michael and I wrote (available from the FlowIdealism.org), and at the Openworld.com and EntrepreneurialSchools.com sites. Look forward to further exploration of these themes and to their implementation in more countries as you’ve described.

Best,

Mark Frazier
Openworld.com
“Awakening assets for good”
@openworld (twitter)