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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...
Apr 3, 2023

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 12, 2023

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...
Mar 6, 2023


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 19, 2023

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...
Feb 3, 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


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....
Jan 14, 2023


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 31, 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 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

To the 2022 Graduates
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...
Nov 15, 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


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 28, 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 16, 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


Metaverse and Interoperability Challenges
Photo: Pixabay One point of discussion during the Economist and Meta panel at the Dubai Metaverse Assembly was interoperability....
Oct 8, 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 30, 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 27, 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 13, 2022
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