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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,...

Sep 1, 2022

Should Employment Matter? A Policymakers Perspective on this Wicked Problem

For policymakers, this is a wicked problem. Complex, inter-determinant, and highly resistant to finding solutions (or at least happy...

Aug 1, 2022

AI-Management Decision Making: Explanation and Transparency

Image: cocoparisienne (Pixabay) One of the challenges we face in AI-Management Decision Making is how we can make decisions more...

Jul 17, 2022

Advancing Technology for a Sustainable Planet

Excited to take part as a panelist during this workshop 25-26 July, by IEEE SA in partnership with the Stanford Institute for...

Jul 6, 2022

Innovation for Impact

Image by rony michaud from Pixabay So when I am told We want to be innovative (and that is a great ambition), I always wonder why? And...

Jun 18, 2022

The Innovation Pipeline: Research to Market

#research #appliedresearch #commercialization #patents #universityranking #innovation #innovation #STI #R&D Image: Scharferle from...

Jun 16, 2022

Metaverse and its Governance

Image by Riki32 and Pixabay This paper discusses what the metaverse is (and is not), some governance lessons we can pick up from the...

Jun 3, 2022

The Elderly and Telemedicine

The healthcare response to lockdowns or to physical inaccessibility or costs associated with distance, has been to use telemedicine. But...

Apr 15, 2022

Agile Government and Agile Governance - Definition and Difference

Recently I gave a talk on this topic and I thought I would capture the key points I discussed over a series of blogs - This is the first...

Mar 31, 2022

Reflections: Day 2 World Government Summit

The second day had the same punch as the first day. I attended panels on Arab Public Administration, tech – (metaverse, space...

Mar 30, 2022

Reflections from World Government Summit 2022 (Day 1)

The first day of the World Government Summit was exciting as usual! It was at the tag end of the COVID pandemic and hopefully the end of...