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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 while balancing your studies. You were so calm about your role and we salute you! I know we thought the world was going nuts (hopefully never again). Some of you worked in healthcare - caring for the sick, saving lives and even getting sick yourself. Some of you were deployed to protect the country and adapted your role as required. Others even

Some Lessons from the Past: The 1970s-90s A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). This standard defines how computers send packets of data to each other, which is important for interoperability across the world. It is built on top of Internet Protocol (IP). TCP is reliable but not accurate or fast; hence other protocols were developed, like Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) for voice-over IP (in 1996). T

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 was published as part of the IEEE SA. Introduction While there is a consensus on the concept of the metaverse, as imagined from 1992 onwards, it is NOT technologically feasible yet. However, there is a tremendous investment in its potential, estimated at the higher end of USD 8-13 Trillion. Metaverse is a place where the real world and the v