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ChatGPT’s New Version

31 January 20234 February 2023
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, e-governance, Economics, Innovation
Yesterday, OpenAI released a new iteration of ChatGPT, version 3.5.  To quickly check, I decided to ask some of the same questions I did back in December. The table below compares the results. ChatGPT November 2022 v3.0 January 30 2023, Read more

Hacking Public Policy Making with AI

15 February 20221 March 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Crowdsourcing, e-governance, Human Development
Modern Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPC) has been around for 25 years, imported into the mainstream from the health sector and its success with randomized controlled trials. The latter has now spread to many other sectors and research areas. A few Read more

Blockchain Adoption in the Public Sector – I

15 January 202231 January 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, e-governance, Governance, Innovation
Over ten years after its creation, the hype on Blockchain Technology (BCT) continues to dominate the scene compared to actual implementation. However, that does not necessarily imply it has remained immune to change. At the very onset, Cryptocurrencies, led by Read more

Digital Government and Social Leaders

15 November 20213 December 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Gender, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
As part of an online course on Digital Government for Social Leaders, I was asked to develop a script for a five-minute animation where an Avatar will introduce the topic and entice the leaders to embrace it as part of Read more

Digital Government Governance Models

1 September 20201 April 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, ICTD
Governments should fully understand the scope and reach of the various Digital Government (DG) institutional functions described in my previous post and their proper sequencing before they embark on comprehensive digital transformation processes. The policy units’ actual institutional location leading Read more

Digital Government Revisited – III

10 August 20201 April 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, Human Development, ICTD, Open Government
Institutions matter, more so for the development and implementation of Digital Government (DG), whose core target is public institutions’ transformation. On the one hand, public institutions should have an array of capacities to ensure public investments in digital technologies are Read more

Digital Government Revisited – II

15 July 20201 April 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Human Development, ICTD, Inequality
Since the early 1980s, Governments have taken a bad rap. Menacing fingerpointing from most quarters ended up on a consensus that loudly declared them personas non-gratas. The 2009 Global Financial Crisis started to turn the tide. At the time, governments Read more

Digital Government Revisited

1 July 20201 April 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Human Development, ICTD
Overview Running on the coattails of electronic commerce, Digital Government (DG) first saw the light of day over 20 years ago. Initially christen as electronic government or e-government, it has since experienced multiple name changes, ranging from e-governance and transformational Read more

Measuring Artificial Intelligence Development

3 August 201920 October 2019
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, e-governance, ICTD, Innovation
In the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI), including siblings machine learning and deep learning, has been growing by leaps and bounds. More importantly, the technology has been deployed effectively in a wide range of traditional sectors bringing real transformational change Read more

Blockchains and Digital ID, II

10 July 201915 February 2021
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, e-governance, Governance, Innovation
The Evolution of Digital identity The emergence of digital technologies provided the ground to shift from traditional systems based on physical identity. In the past, both foundational and functional identity mechanisms were centralized, with individuals getting a physical document containing Read more

Blockchains and Digital ID, I

20 June 201915 February 2021
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, e-governance, Governance, ICTD, Innovation
Overview Like previous technologies, such as the Internet, blockchains have been driven by a high degree of techno-optimism not yet backed up by on the ground impact or reliable evidence. Undoubtedly, the technology, which is still rapidly evolving, has enormous Read more

E-government Development II

30 May 201914 July 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, Human Development, Open Government
In this sequel post, I will look at the various components of the UNDESA e-government index and then introduce the EIU democracy index to explore potential interlinks between the two,  Components The e-government development index (EGDI) comprises three distinct components Read more

E-government Development I

10 May 201910 July 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, ICTD, Innovation, Open Government
Birth Running on the coattails of the now infamous dot-com bubble, e-government first saw the light of day before the end of the last Millennium. At that time, where hype overtook the tech scene yet again, adding ‘e’ (as in Read more

Internet and more in Guyana

18 November 201621 March 2019
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, ICTD
The first time I ever visited Guyana was in July 1997. Back then, I was working for UNDP, running a global project called the Sustainable Development Networking Programme, SDNP, whose primary goal was to promote access to information via the Read more
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