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Prime Minister, Imran Khan shines on stage and lays out an agenda with passion, the uplifting of youth, SME and creating new streams of education all to enable fast track national mobilization of entrepreneurialism on digital platforms and save the economic crisis. When prolonged and drastic economic suffering linger only drastic answers can fix them. Is Pakistan ready for dramatic moves?

National economic development survival kit: When economic priority already identifies small medium business economy key pillar of the nation why not try some of the following bold suggestions as survival kit to improve grassroots prosperity with integrated deployment of national mobilization of SME on digital platforms along with digital Pakistan. Intense and honest debates with authoritative discussions are prerequisites.

The Elimination of business set-up costs: Eliminate, all filing fees and registration costs for any new business of any kind set up anywhere within the nation, such items can be double-taxed later but no point in strangulation at the gates. All business related telecommunication costs and latest technologies should be free for first 3-5 years. All public sectors officials intensely trained on entrepreneurialism to uplift global trade so they become alliance with vision and knowledge and not where they are now.

The business education is good but not job-worthy: start a revolution and train 1-10 million small business owners on fast track basis in simultaneous synchronization, create teams of experts on such topics. All college education, all university education fees returned in double for anyone engaged in SME and encourage students to try out things. Successful enterprises will pay back in multiples in taxes.

Scattered across western nations are the super talented, experienced small medium enterprises, in need of uplift and increase the productivity of their local areas. Create national debates to get lip-service out with honest and real hardcore discussions

Futurism calls for futuristic literacy: understanding real entrepreneurialism is essential. Create a 24x7x365 culture and redefine productivity routines of national workforce. The global age demands compressed and high quality critical thinking to blend with automation the pencil-pushing hardworking days is but dead. Create national awareness amongst working-citizenry to appreciate automation a blessing to allow and adapt to lifelong-learning and upgrade skills.

Creating SME economy: Digitization of midsize economy and all surrounding logistics with easy access will uplift trade. The world of commerce is just an open battlefield, where well trained and well equipped on free-technologies will shine, rest drown. Discover mobilization and create instant landing visas for armies of foreign entrepreneurs. Create master strategy for Pakistan Diaspora. Dive deeply on global entrepreneurial movement, study, why Asia dwarfs what once was the mighty entrepreneurial march from the West. Create free high class global-age “showcasing” of every single SME within a nation study Pentiana and its program for Chamber of Commerce of the world. . This is a new global age revolution on how to create access and utilize digital platforms to pump grassroots prosperity.

Make mandatory transition across the nation: Critical Thinking and export-skills are essential prerequisite and minimum working criteria. What the last generation of new students missed in the classrooms. Entrepreneurialism as main bloodstream of national economy at all levels of trade. Eliminate fears and hostilities towards out of box thinking and failures, as failures are steps to success.

Create Small and Midsize business economy focus as the key driver of grassroots prosperity. Scattered across western nations are the super talented, experienced small medium enterprises, in need of uplift and increase the productivity of their local areas. Create national debates to get lip-service out with honest and real hardcore discussions. Without honest and bold dialogue nothing done.

Embrace Futurism with futuristic literacy: Enforce national workforce become skilled experts with platform economy and not social media. Such drastic deployments require bold leadership and bypass sluggish bureaucracies. Fire the first person for saying they have no new funding to bring change

Fire the next person for saying they are too busy and have no time to bring change. The global age promises a very bright future but demands critical thinking to fully measure the advancements.

Achieving Dramatic Results: Given the right conditions, 10,000 or 1,000,000 SME on digital platform supported on such key aspects of global growth, on the forward march will uplift local grassroots communities; something currently unknown for being too entrepreneurial in nature, untouched for being too fragmented and unpracticed for serious lack of entrepreneurial staff in public and private sectors and governing authorities are killing growth and this is where the next SME revolution hidden. The Chambers of Commerce are on digital transformation track and advancements on “showcasing” their entire membership with a global bounce are the right way to help 11,000 Chambers and their combined 45 million members to spread their wings on exportability. Study how Pentiana project is handling such challenges. All of the above is possible due to free overflow of technologies.

Future-Mindset: These are specialized topics, demanding global age understanding and digital platform savvy execution models. Silence will further pushdown economy on therefore these topic demands bold and authoritative discussions to play the global chess of digital commerce and new skills.

Start with economic development kit in your own regions, right away.

Rest is easy

The writer is Chairman, Expothon Worldwide, creator of Octara-Debates www.expothon.com