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Mar 12

Berlin Innovation & Governance Trip

Day 1-5: MBRSG (2023) Caption: Brandenburg Gate (Berlin) Germany is known for its economic power but only 29 Fortune 500 companies come...

Mar 6

Day Zero: Innovation & Governance Trip to Berlin

The Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government is abroad with its Innovation and Governance study trip. Most of the students belong to the...

Feb 19

World Government Summit 2023: Four-day Recap

I spent four days at the World Government Summit, and though I flitted from one session to another, I honestly can say I did not do full...

Feb 3

The Grey Areas of AI Decision Making

AI decision making is complex. It is a mixture of human and machine decisions. A machine does not train itself, nor does it decide its...

Jan 17

Metaverse and Trade-offs

Source: mage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This my latest article just published in the California Management Review Insights! Managers...

Jan 14

Planet Positive: A Better Future

Source: Pixabay I volunteer as a one of the committee members of the IEEE SA Planet Positive 2030 Standards Working Group led by Dr....

Dec 31, 2022

Leadership in the New Year

Moving into 2023 will not be easy. The earth and its people are still fragile. The pandemic energy crisis, war, recession, refugee...

Dec 13, 2022

Part III: Future of Metaverse Governance: Some Lessons from the Past: The 1990s

Source: Image by Merlin Lightpainting from Pixabay This period was an exciting one for the development of the metaverse. The book Snow...

Dec 4, 2022

The Business of Personal Data Sales and Analytics: Governance

Source: S.Herman/F. Ritcher from Pixabay Data fuels AI. The business of selling personal data can be overt or covert, and the challenge...

Nov 15, 2022

To the 2022 Graduates

It was not easy. Some of you began at the start of the COVID pandemic. Some of you were frontliners - working so hard to keep us safe...

Nov 3, 2022

Part II - Future of Metaverse Governance (cont.)

Some Lessons from the Past: The 1970s-90s A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork...

Nov 2, 2022

Part I Future of Metaverse Governance

This is a small series of blog on the history of governance in the "metaverse". It is inspired from a previous paper I was part of that...

Oct 28, 2022

Statecraft and the Drift away from Humanities....

This graph is from the WIPO 2022 report. It is worrisome as the publications in humanities (and social sciences) are being drowned out by...

Oct 16, 2022

Human-AI Teamwork

In the near future, the probability we will all be working with artificial intelligence (AI) to get our jobs done is a certainty. Yet we...

Oct 11, 2022

Synthetic Biology (Synbio) Governance Workshop: Future Forward - some insights

A futurist makes forecasts and predictions about what might happen to human society, technology, the economy and other key systems in the...

Oct 8, 2022

Metaverse and Interoperability Challenges

Photo: Pixabay One point of discussion during the Economist and Meta panel at the Dubai Metaverse Assembly was interoperability....

Sep 30, 2022

AI and Sustainability: The Role of HR

AI is the beating heart of the metaverse. AI is driving massive changes in the structure and processes we use to run the government....

Sep 27, 2022

Tipping points: looking at the sustainability of XR (metaverse)

I was fortunate to give a keynote along with luminaires like HE Eva Kaili, EU Vice President, Prof. Herman Russchenberg, and Pro-Vice...

Sep 13, 2022

Soft Power and Social Entrepreneurship

According to Joseph Nye, A country’s soft power is its ability to make friends and influence people – not through military might but...

Sep 4, 2022

AI Tech Zones and The Ecosystem

Source: Pixabay I am fascinated by the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) ecosystems and consult and teach the same. For example,...