The Network State Conference is on in Singapore! For the 3rd consecutive year, Balaji Srinivasan will host The Network State Conference on October 3rd, for the 2nd consecutive year in Singapore. This conference is about founding, funding and finding new communities. This

20k jobs. €740M zone investments, driving €1.6B in FDI. Exports doubling in 2 years. Africa’s first carbon-neutral industrial zone. That’s the track record of the GSEZ - Gabon Special Economic Zone at Nkok. Launched in 2010, the zone was built as a public-private partnership:

Kigali’s rise isn’t luck. It’s policy + discipline. GDP collapsed 50% in 1994. Today: 20+ years of ~8% annual growth. How Rwanda built one of Africa’s most consistent growth stories 👇

In October 1966, Walt Disney pitched EPCOT as a private city with SEZ-style powers, not the themepark we know today. Florida granted them. The Reedy Creek district (40 sq mi) delivered county-level authority: zoning, taxation, bonds, utilities, and roads. Now, Disney directly

How China used SEZs to grow GDP from $149.5B in 1978 to $17.8T in 2023. Today, SEZs account for: >22% of GDP, >60% of exports, >45% of FDI, >,30M jobs. Launched in 1980 Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, and Xiamen on the southeast coast were in close proximity to Hong Kong. The

China’s SEZ edge came from rules that cut risk and time. In 1978, Deng announced the Open Door policy and reopened China to trade and investment. In 1980, China launched SEZs as test sites. Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, zones gained local law-making power; Shenzhen