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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

More Light on Financial Inclusion

20 August 202226 September 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
In a couple of recent posts, I briefly traced the history of financial inclusion and its links to the emergence and diffusion of digital technologies. A recently published book by Nick Bernards tackles the same issue more comprehensively while taking 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

Financial Inclusion and Democratizing Finance – II

10 June 202219 June 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
Where are the banks? It seems paradoxical that the mainstream history of micro-finance/financial inclusion does not consider banks.  After all, banks are supposed to “bank the unbanked.”  So banks are not only missing from such a narrative.  They are also Read more

Open Data and Big Pharma

15 May 20221 June 2022
Raul Zambrano
Economics, Innovation, Open Data
In 1980, the U.S. Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act that modified patent and trademark law by allowing universities and small businesses to own inventions created under the funding of the Federal Government. Its core idea was to expedite the commercialization Read more

More Bitcoin Inequality

15 March 20225 April 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Inequality, Innovation
While still prone to seemingly unpredictable dynamics, Bitcoin’s price seems to have found a new center of gravity in the last year. Since February 2021, the Cryptocurrency has oscillated around 4ok per unit, give or take. It peaked at 67.5k 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

Contesting Innovation

15 September 202124 January 2022
Raul Zambrano
Human Development, Innovation, Social Innovation
Innovation is always good. Innovation regulation is always wrong. These are the two innovation axioms we repeatedly hear in unison from mainstream media, innovators and innovative companies, big and small. Indeed, the two are connected. They are, in fact, two Read more

Waiting for yet another Industrial Revolution

5 July 202126 July 2021
Raul Zambrano
Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, e-governance, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Innovation
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 Read more

Carbon Removal Policies for the U.S?

28 February 20205 March 2020
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Innovation
Founded almost 40 years ago with the financial support of the MacArthur Foundation, the World Resources Institute (WRI) is one of the U.S most prominent research organizations working on environmental issues since its inception. The entity centers its efforts on Read more

Technology and Earth Hacking

10 February 20203 March 2020
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Governance, Inequality, Innovation
Hacking the Sky Low, angry gray clouds, seemingly non-stop light rain and damp breathing air were hometown weather traits that most bothered me when I was growing up. Like most other children, I had a fascination with airplanes and could Read more

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