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When Regulators are Unable to Manage Industry Cross-Overs
We are seeing more movement of products across industries and the inability of regulators to catch these. Take for example the case of...
Jun 16, 2024


Right to Childhood in an AI, gamified online world.
The right to childhood (and its an ambiguous one) would fall more likely under The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), more...
Jun 15, 2024

Metaverse and Human Rights
If you are attending the EuroDIG - European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024, please attend our panel jointly created with IEEE...
Jun 8, 2024


Future Government Skills
If you work in the public sector (or aspire to, or work with the government affairs department of a private sector company), this open...
Jun 3, 2024


Post-COVID
Post-COVID, life was supposed to get easier - we had onboarded AI and remote working/learning, embraced delivery services.....but we are...
May 11, 2024


Autonomous Avatars & Digital Me
According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...
Mar 26, 2024


AI Enabled Business - Our Book Launch
Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...
Mar 6, 2024


Moving into the Metaverse, AI ethics and all those things.....
Image Source: Generated with Adobe Firefly More physical brands are moving into virtual places. Honda just tied up with gaming company...
Jan 28, 2024


Metaverse and Human Rights
This was a short panel and with some amazing contributors and of course big shout out to Monika Manolova! On the 75th anniversary of the...
Dec 17, 2023

Agile Nations Metaverse Self-Governance White Paper
Since April 2022, the mazing team and I under the UAE Minister for State's Office for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote...
Oct 10, 2023


Future-proofing the Metaverse
Can we future-proof the metaverse? Possible, by Whole-of-Society participation. This means individuals, families, institutions (private,...
Oct 6, 2023


The Right to Work and the Metaverse
Here is a short video of the talk I gave at the Council of Europe on 14 September. The overview of the detailed study is available here:...
Sep 24, 2023

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...
Sep 16, 2023


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 7, 2023


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 17, 2023


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 13, 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...
Dec 4, 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 3, 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...
Nov 2, 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 11, 2022
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