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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


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 4, 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...
Sep 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...
Aug 1, 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 17, 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...
Jul 6, 2022


The Innovation Pipeline: Research to Market
#research #appliedresearch #commercialization #patents #universityranking #innovation #innovation #STI #R&D Image: Scharferle from...
Jun 18, 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 16, 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...
Jun 3, 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...
Apr 15, 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 31, 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...
Mar 30, 2022


Mission Drift: The Downside of Being Agile
I am a huge proponent of agile government or agile organizations. The only way this is possible is through deliberate strategic...
Mar 16, 2022


Policy Coordination: A missing skill for the public sector
The public sector manages governance across a range of stakeholders. Not just internally, but the other stakeholders in the country...
Jan 20, 2022


A New Year - A New Business Plan
#leadership #businessplan #strategy #humancentered #planning Planning is about having a map to where you want to go. While it is easy to...
Dec 26, 2021


AI Bias - Some Insights from 2021 Kaggle Survey on Data Scientists
Where does AI biases come from? Well the most obvious is data and programming! This recent survey from the Kaggle community on data...
Oct 24, 2021


Enabling an AI System that is Ethically Aligned - GITEX 2021
Wednesday 20 October, 1.30 in Sheikh Saeed Hall 3, Dubai WTC (Digital Dubai Space) Artificial Intelligence Systems (AIS) are all around...
Oct 9, 2021
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