Technology for national priorities, run by local partners
GG International has advised governments since 1989. We also bring proven technology into our markets and set it up with the companies that will operate it.
A route into our markets, starting with the Gulf
We help companies with proven technology enter GG's markets, with the Gulf and the wider Middle East as our priority.
In most countries, private and public buyers work differently. Private buyers use local partners and corporate channels; public buyers use procurement, with its own rules and timelines. We help you prepare for each.
- An assessment of demand in each market, set against its national strategies
- A local partner with the staff and reach to operate the technology
- Terms that suit the market and the technology
Technology sourced against your national strategy
When a ministry, agency, or public company has a priority that needs new technology, we start from the strategy and the gap it identifies.
We look for proven technology that fits and check that its owner can support it in your country. We then set it up with a local partner, with training and skills transfer built in.
Access · Localize · Build
Demand-driven
Every technology engagement begins with what the country has set out to achieve: its national strategies, the gaps in its industry, and its plans for investment and local content. The search for technology follows from those priorities.
Access
We identify the technology a market needs and reach the companies, research groups, and innovators who own it, including companies not yet active in the market.
Localize
We adapt each technology to the country's regulation, standards, procurement rules, and language. Then we agree on terms with a local partner, using one of the routes below.
Build
We help the local partner build the team, operations, and supply chain to run it, so the market can run it without depending on outside help.
Six capabilities, from the first search to a working local business
Technology intelligence
We work out which technologies are proven enough to adopt.
Technology access
We approach the owners of those technologies, from established manufacturers to university research groups.
Local market access
We find the local partners and buyers for each technology.
Deal structuring
We negotiate the arrangement and its terms, then see it through to signature.
Localization
We prepare the technology's documentation and set up the local support each market requires.
Venture building
Where a market needs a new local business to run the technology, we help set it up and grow it.
Seven ways into a market
We choose the arrangement for each market and each technology. These are the main options.
Distribution
A local partner buys, sells, and supports the technology.
Representation
A local representative promotes the technology on its owner's behalf.
Licensing and technology transfer
A local company gains the right, and the know-how, to make or deploy the technology.
Local manufacturing
The technology is made or assembled in the country, often to meet national requirements for local production.
Research partnerships
Local universities and research institutions develop the technology further with its owner.
Joint ventures
The technology owner and a local partner set up and own a new local company.
Investment
The owner or outside investors put capital into a local business built around the technology.
Technologies that advance and protect economies
Secure digital infrastructure
Networks, cloud, and data systems that keep government and banking services running.
AI for public services
Tools that support public services and decisions, with clear rules for their use.
Sustainable building and roads
Affordable housing and durable roads, designed to use fewer resources.
Cyber and post-quantum resilience
Protection for government and financial systems against current threats, and encryption built to withstand quantum computers.
Critical infrastructure protection
Safeguards for power, water, telecommunications, and transport against attack, failure, or disaster.
Defense and dual-use technology
Technologies with security and civilian uses, brought in under national programs and local-content rules.
Advance
Secure digital infrastructure
Networks, cloud, and data systems that keep government and banking services running.
AI for public services
Tools that support public services and decisions, with clear rules for their use.
Sustainable building and roads
Affordable housing and durable roads, designed to use fewer resources.
Protect
Cyber and post-quantum resilience
Protection for government and financial systems against current threats, and encryption built to withstand quantum computers.
Critical infrastructure protection
Safeguards for power, water, telecommunications, and transport against attack, failure, or disaster.
Defense and dual-use technology
Technologies with security and civilian uses, brought in under national programs and local-content rules.
Sectors we serve
Energy, telecommunications, banking and insurance, the public sector, agriculture, logistics, and tourism.
Headquartered in New Zealand, working through local partners
We run the firm from Wellington, New Zealand, with offices in Washington DC, Phnom Penh, and Ulaanbaatar. We are planning an office in the Middle East.
For each technology we bring in, we work through a local partner who knows the market and its rules.
Earlier technology work
Affordable modular housing
A GG building design team in Switzerland developed a modular construction system for affordable, environmentally sustainable homes. With the modules made in a factory, the system saved time, cost, and materials.
Sustainable road building
GG has held exclusive licenses to market road-building and other sustainable technologies in selected countries. These technologies include a soil additive, tested by an independent body, that lets road foundations be built from the existing soil, with less crushed stone and gravel brought in.
Independent advice, declared interests
We declare any commercial interest we hold in a technology or its supplier, and we staff advisory work only with people who have no conflict. Our advice is independent.
Two ways to start
For technology owners
Tell us what your technology does, where it is already in use, and which of our markets you have in mind.
Bring your technology to our marketsFor governments and institutions
Tell us the priority, the strategy behind it, and the outcome you are accountable for.
Find technology for a national priority