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Some of my blog articles, events, videos or books!

Sep 16

Council of Europe: Metaverse

Presented on the topic of #Metaverse as an expert at an informal meeting to the Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe on 14th...

Aug 30

Leadership: Surviving the Storm

Leaders are often considered founders, top management, heads of ministries, department heads, or board members, the stewards of an...

Aug 15

Latest Publications/Interviews

August-September 2023 Artificial Intelligence Book: AI Enabled Business: A Smart Decision Kit Available on Amazon. Written with Himanshu...

Jul 28

Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Primer

The quest to create machines that mimic humans has been going on for a long time. Sometimes out of academic endeavor, sometimes out of...

Jun 13

Do We Need a Resilient Agile AI Governance System?

AI systems affect people, societies, industries, governments, and the planet. Despite having 800 AI policy initiatives it will never be...

May 26

Crisis Management: Stages

A lot of my early research work began in crisis management. Whether you are a manager or a policy maker, crisis management means: (1)...

May 17

Tipping Point with AI?

A Point Of No Return? Of course there were Early Warning Signals (EWS)! But regulations will continue to lag as we come in at the tail...

May 7

When Technology and Public Purpose Meet

Yesterday I attended the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Summit 2023, a project under Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and...

May 4

Stealth AI

There have been some worrying trends and I am not sure where to get answers. We need @DylanCurran - to help us better reflect on what is...

Apr 14

Building High Governance AI Systems

*parts of this blog are extracted from my recent talk and my new book (above), coming soon I prefer to refer to Artificial Intelligence...

Apr 3

Why Carbon Offsetting May Not Be Enough.

By 2025, our consumption of AI through data management, deploying hardware, training software, and crisis and cybersecurity interventions...

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...