Doha, Qatar: To facilitate potential investors, the Economic Zones Company, Manateq, is developing an electronic platform with an app and ChatBot using Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is expected to be announced this year.
“We encourage the use of technology. One of our goals in 2025, is to announce an app and a platform for investors,” said Mohammed Lutfallah Al Emadi, CEO of Manateq.
Speaking to Qatar TV recently, he said there will also be a ChatBot using artificial intelligence for employees and investors to answer all their questions.
“Today we, in Manateq, are providing paperless transactions to investors. All transactions are electronic. From the beginning, the company has invested in the technology sector. Technology is very important to ease the work environment,” said Al Emadi.
He said that Manateq has more than 4,460 investors and about 70% of them are small and medium enterprises, whether it is an industrial facility or a commercial company.
He said that the services, including electricity, water, communications, and even CCTV cameras for monitoring and landscaping to preserve the environment, all follow high standards in developing the infrastructure.
“Today Manateq is stretching in approximately 80 million square meters. The developed areas are approximately 29 million square meters. It is a vast area. We have risen in the logistics and industrial sectors in this level of infrastructure,” said Al Emadi.
In return, he said: “We have standards for investors when the investor develops the land that we have granted. There are certain conditions and standards that he must adhere to. They are global. So, in the end, it is a strategic relationship and a strong partnership between us and the SME sector.”
He said that as for the logistics services, whether in Al Wakra or Birkat Al Awamer, they are the largest areas as investors are concentrated between these two areas in logistics services.
He said that five areas have been offered to the private sector as a distinguished partnership between the government sector and the private sector.
“Four among those have been fully developed by private-sector companies. They are located in an area of approximately three million and two hundred thousand square meters with an investment of approximately two billion riyals,” said Al Emadi.
