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Governments work with wicked problems which have certain characteristics as seen the image above. Hence when you get a solution like “let us use frontier AI”, the outcomes may not be as simple to get for many reasons.   1.        Tradeoff between Private Profits and Public Value Governments need to be inclusive. Sometimes efficiency may be at the cost of creating jobs or the cost of creating a societal network based on physical interactions. Every time we make a decision choi

👉 There are 1.48 million km of submarine cables (30X the circumference of the Earth) connecting countries to move DATA 👉 Example 99% of data to the outside world in UK is carried through 60 cables 👉 95% of data still move by cables (sea or land) 👉 Most of this infrastructure is owned by the private sector (99%) 👉 A disruption of a cable leads to slow internet - take 2008, 2 Mediterranean cable were cut affecting 14 countries (100% of Maldives and 82% of India) 👉 Few pla

I am hosting, with my collegues from The Digital Economist, a design thinking workshop for UNGA 80 Science Summit. While it is online...

We held our first policy council using design thinking on Trustworthy AI in Healthcare in San Fransisco, hosted by Databricks. The...

Honored to be accepted to the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) competitive program as a Member of the CAIDP AI Policy Group....

Published: July 19, 2025. Source: Image by Gerd Altmann  from Pixabay The Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution is a geopolitical race...

We are all familiar with the Data Pyramid, but I want to give you a different interpretation on it. Especially, as it is applied today in...

We are seeing more movement of products across industries and the inability of regulators to catch these. Take for example the case of...

The right to childhood (and its an ambiguous one) would fall more likely under The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), more...

If you are attending the EuroDIG - European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024, please attend our panel jointly created with IEEE...

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

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

My new book chapter is out - Sovereign Wealth Funds and Soft Power. Often existing literature underestimates the long-term strategy of...

I listened to two panels: "Competition in the market for foundation models” and “The role of data in development models.” The...

#EU has the #AIAct (first in the world). #USA has recommended the hiring of a Chief AI Officer for every Federal Agency. But, right now,...

According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...

Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...

A good part of diplomacy or political savvy is listening. If you want to shape the future – you need to be in the corridors, pursuing a...

AI is not just software - while much of the regulations/frameworks and guidelines focus on software and data - you do need to consider...

AI regulations are coming fast! Besides the anticipated EU AI Act (which will have consequences for AI firms), there is lot more mention...