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Measuring Artificial Intelligence Development

3 August 201920 October 2019 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

Blockchains and Digital ID, II

10 July 201915 February 2021 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

Blockchains and Digital ID, I

20 June 201915 February 2021 Raul Zambrano

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. […]

E-government Development I

10 May 201910 July 2019 Raul Zambrano

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 […]

Biased Artificial Intelligence

6 February 201911 February 2019 Raul Zambrano

A recent piece in MIT’s Technology Review nicely summarizes the issue of bias in AI/ML (AI) algorithms used in production to make decisions or predictions. The usual suspects make a cameo […]