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Towards a Public Internet?

10 July 202230 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Memory insists on telling me every so often that the first time  I ever used the Internet was at the tail end of the 1980s. A couple of years earlier, the college where I was struggling to finish my Ph.D. Read more

Digital Technologies and Sustainable Development

1 July 202217 July 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
1. Overall context Much water has already gone under the bridge on this topic. Yet the flow shows no signs of coming to a halt soon. In the early days of the so-called “Internet revolution,” only a few were connecting Read more

The Environment and “Socialist” States

1 May 202211 May 2022
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Human Development, Inequality
Thirty-six years after it first broke the news for the wrong reasons, Chernobyl is back in the headlines thanks to the horrible and absurd Russian invasion. Sixteen months before the well-known Soviet nuclear meltdown of 1986, a plant located in Read more

ICTs and Development Theories – II

15 April 202227 April 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Linking ICTs to development External researchers and experts poking for the first time into ICTD might assume that the field has, 30 years after its birth, a cohesive theory on how ICTs impact development. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Read more

ICTs and Development Theories – I

1 April 202227 April 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
ICTD overview The field of ICTD first saw the light over 30 years ago1 Selected references are provided at the end of the 2nd part of this post. Its overall scope is ambitious as it covers several sectors and thematic Read more

State Capacity and Digital Technologies – I

1 March 202222 March 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Governance, Human Development
To the Moon and Back It was my elder sister’s 25th birthday when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. We watched the unprecedented event on B&W TV  – our grandma openly expressing total skepticism. We then went out for a Read more

Blockchain Adoption in the Public Sector – II

30 January 20222 February 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Governance, ICTD, Innovation
Regulatory frameworks are usually perceived as counter-productive and even nefarious by innovators, pundits and followers. Together they will go out of their way to stop them, arguing that their impact on innovation is lethal, as discussed in a previous post. 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

AI National Policies – III

1 November 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
Policy Evolution Comparatively speaking, AI national policies and strategies have evolved much slower than other digital strategies such as ICT, Digital Government, and Open Data. That might seem paradoxical given the systemic benefits and risks of the revived and now Read more

AI National Policies – II

15 October 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
As mentioned in the previous post, policymakers should skip over the dominant technology-centered AI perspective and instead position AI as a multi-dimensional structure cutting across all sectors. Indeed, national AI policy effectiveness depends to a large extent on the AI Read more

AI National Policies – I

1 October 202115 December 2022
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Governance, Human Development, ICTD
National policy development on new digital technologies has become a staple since the emergence of the Internet in the early 1990s. It has certainly not been limited to most advanced countries. Nations in the Global South have also climbed the Read more

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