In this episode of Focus, we take you to the World Governments Summit 2025 in Dubai, where global leaders, policymakers and experts gathered to shape the future of governance. From the integration of AI and digital transformation to public-private partnerships, the summit tackled key challenges.
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00:00In this summit we actually see how important it is to exchange knowledge,
00:05find possible ways to cooperate with different governments,
00:09but also there's a lot of discussions about public-private partnership.
00:13So it is essential to be in this kind of summits and actually have all the connections possible.
00:21Governments have to be enablers of this change at lightening speech.
00:30They have to provide the necessary infrastructure.
00:36And they have particularly to cooperate with business,
00:41because this transition into this new intelligent age
00:47will only be mastered if all stakeholders of global society work together.
00:54Klaus Schwab addresses a packed plenary hall as the World Government Summit opened in Dubai
00:59under the theme Shaping Future Governments.
01:02The government summit is all about sharing. It's all about looking at the whole world.
01:09We are all living on this planet. So whether it's an environmental thing,
01:13or an improvement thing, or a service we give to our people, it has to be done at the latest
01:23technologies and at the speed of light as everything is moving around.
01:28And we believe that governments need to cooperate and learn from the private sector.
01:33So this partnership between governments and private sector,
01:37we're going to see it evolving and changing our lives in the future.
01:41With 30 heads of state and delegates from 140 countries, the World Government Summit
01:47has welcomed the world's most prominent thought leaders, global experts and over 6,000 attendees.
01:55The next frontier of artificial intelligence was high on the agenda,
01:59as was discussions about digitization.
02:02Now Estonia has all its government services online. 100% of governmental services
02:08are now digitalized. So it gives really good access for Estonian people. It's easy to use,
02:14it's transparent. And the next big step definitely will be implementing the usage of AI
02:21in governmental services, but also in public-private partnership.
02:24Its importance was also echoed by the European Commission, who were represented at the summit.
02:30Digital age is very important because citizens are used that they can actually connect everywhere,
02:37change, and also government should be minded in this way. Interoperability standards are very
02:43important. Openness is very important. And also operation, it's important. So that is the meaning
02:51of being digitally connected and government services of the citizens of the world.
02:57Bilateral partnerships and conversations around President Trump's new US administration
03:02and ties with Europe also dominated talks.
03:06We are looking forward to the, especially the economy part of the Trump's administration plan
03:11is, sounds very, very exciting. And we are really excited about all the innovation that's going to
03:16be unfolding in the following months and years. And this is really, really something that excites
03:21us a lot. I think it's going to pull Europe as well to do much more than Europe was maybe
03:27intending to do. So I'm really hopeful that US will be kind of icebreaker for all of us,
03:33so that we speed up the reforms, we speed up innovation. It's going to be fun.
03:39Media representation also helped support European ties with the summit.
03:43We are obviously the only non-American, non-regional media, the only Europeans to be present.
03:48And we project not just Euronews' voice, but also Europe's voice in the international scene.
03:53Two things that are important. First is that our presence and our expansion around the world
03:58is really seen and is really marked by being in events like this. And second is we have to
04:05build the bridges for Europe, the dialogue. And in the year that marks the return of
04:10profitability to Euronews, being the big European presence in an event like this is
04:15critically important for us. There were famous faces from the world of sport who also came
04:20together to debate how to shape the future through collective efforts and strategic
04:25international partnerships. Sport does not exist without society, and society will not exist
04:32without sport. If we look to the sport industry, in 2022 this will become a business of about
04:40500 billion dollars. It's not entertainment, this is really sport for life.
04:46The three-day summit successfully brought together the world's forward thinkers and
04:50in turn provided new strategies to help meet the growing challenges of the future.