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  • AI in the Public Sector – III

    AI in the Public Sector – III

    Needless to say, digital technologies are not strangers to the public sector.  Indeed, Digital Government (DG) has been the subject of extensive academic research showcasing frameworks, opportunities, and failures, the Global South included. Initially born as e-government, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in and by the public sector has evolved substantially over…

  • The Governance of AI Governance – III

    The Governance of AI Governance – III

    As described in previous posts, governance has evolved historically, assuming different configurations depending on socio-economic and political contexts. In the Capitalist era, the nation-state emerged as the governance master. Still, alternative governance processes demanding the involvement of non-state actors have challenged it in the past 40 years or so. That has put pressure on existing…

  • The Governance of AI Governance – I

    The Governance of AI Governance – I

    A few years ago, before LLMs successfully colonized the digital world, I led a small team of experts contracted to assess public institutions in an emerging economy. Under the umbrella of government assessments, the job required evaluating the performance of over 20 institutions based on a methodology designed by international subject-matter experts working closely with…

  • Waiting for yet another Industrial Revolution

    Waiting for yet another Industrial Revolution

    The PC revolution. The Internet revolution. The mobile revolution. The social media revolution. The blockchain revolution. And the AI re-revolution. We seem to be living in times of Permanent Revolution. Also reminds me of the Age of Revolution that thrived a couple of centuries ago. Back then, social uprising calling for regime change was the…

  • Digital Government in Jamaica

    Digital Government in Jamaica

    The last time I visited Jamaica was in the early 2000s. A few years before, we had launched the national node of the old and now defunct Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP). It was labeled JSDNP and did quite a bit of work locally fostering digital technologies and creating and disseminating local content. Unfortunately,  JSDNP…

  • Innovation in the Public Sector

    I. Introduction For the last 30 years, relentless technological innovation has seemingly conquered most, if not all, corners of the world. While the focus was on infrastructure and social networks in its early stages, the latest phase has set its eyes on core productive and financial processes that will undoubtedly have a profound socio-economic and…

  • Identifying the Unidentified

    Identifying the Unidentified

    Identity access and management (IAM) is perhaps one of the areas where Blockchain Technology (BCT) could make a real difference. Research I am currently undertaken indicates that over one hundred BCT startups around the globe are focusing on this area. Add to this number the many other startups and organizations who have been engaged with…

  • 25 Years of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme, SDNP

    The Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) was a UNDP global program that ran between 1992 and 2004.  SDNP’s core goal was to enhance access to sustainable development information on a multi-stakeholder basis using new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Its scope of work was driven by Agenda 21, the sustainable development agenda endorsed by UN…

  • Lights Off in Westchester

    Just as with the stock market, weather forecasting is a tricky business. Thanks to one too many inaccurate forecasts, most people seem to be aware of this and usually cast doubts on what weather people tell us, specially when storms of any kind are heading our way. In the Northern Hemisphere, weather talk is also…