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H.E Mohamed Bin Taliah Your Ref: 09.01.2024 No Chief of Government Services Our Ref: 10.01.2024 No 6-2/102-1 The United Arab Emirates Government Your Excellency, The relations between the United Arab Emirates and the Republic of Estonia have been strengthening in these last few years. This is thanks to increasing contacts between the representatives of the governments, as well as the business communities, of our two countries. I am happy to say that there is another visit to the UAE from the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications: Ms. Sirli Heinsoo, Director of Digital Economy Department, and Ms. Kristi Aruküla, Real-Time Economy International Relations Lead, from the Real-Time Economy team in the Ministry are visiting Dubai from 12th to 15th of February 2024. I would be grateful if a meeting with the UAE Government’s e- and m-Services field officers could be organised for them. There has been previous contact through the events of Accelerate Estonia, Dubai Expo and Startup Estonia, and to develop things further, the focus this time would be more on public services for entrepreneurs. We would like to exchange practices and views from the Estonian and the UAE side in implementing efficient digital public services to entrepreneurs, and explore areas in which to advance further cooperation. In the Real-Time Economy work programme, we see the opportunity to create a data-driven business environment by implementing data interoperability B2B, B2C as well as B2G for business reporting and communications, different AI-solutions and other digital services targeted to entrepreneurs. We are currently working closely with the European Union, Nordic and Baltic region but we would like to extend our collaboration area and share our experiences with the UAE. The contact point for the requested meeting is Ms. Kristi Aruküla ([email protected]; phone number +372 56 466 033). Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of my highest consideration. Ms. Sandra Särav, Deputy Secretary General for Economics and Innovation Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / ESTONIA Phone: +372 625 6342 / Fax: +372 631 3660 / E-mail: [email protected] / http://www.mkm.ee