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Financial Inclusion and Democratizing Finance – I

30 May 202213 June 2022
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, Human Development, ICTD, Social Innovation
From Noise to Signal A couple of weeks ago, El Salvador’s CryptoPopulist President shared on social media news about an international “Bitcoin” meeting his country was hosting starting May 16.  He also listed the names of the 44 entities participating 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

Innovation in the Public Sector

5 April 202015 October 2021
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, Human Development, ICTD, Inequality, Social Innovation
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 Read more

A Glance at Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data

1 October 20196 December 2019
Raul Zambrano
Climate Change, Economics, Governance, Social Innovation
Lack of data is certainly not one of the issues at the table when discussing energy production and carbon emissions. Well-known sources for the former include the UN Statistics Division, the International Energy Agency (IEA), the U.S. Energy Information Administration Read more

Waste no time waiting for e-Waste data

31 October 20185 January 2019
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Climate Change, Human Development, Social Innovation
The town where I currently reside is planning to change its e-Waste collection policy starting next year. As it is today, town people can go downtown once a month and drop their old computers, laptops, monitors and the rest. This Read more

Chasing ICOs (away?)

7 February 201816 February 2021
Raul Zambrano
Blockchain, Economics, ICTD, Social Innovation
Recent events seem to suggest the cryptocurrency bubble is finally starting to deflate. Bitcoin, Ethereum and most of their crypto cousins are significantly down while regulators in several countries are finally beginning to take action on the ground. Nobel laureate economists Read more

Overall Perspectives on Technology

21 January 201827 January 2018
Raul Zambrano
Human Development, ICTD, Innovation, Social Innovation
Disruptive, transformative and revolutionary are some of the adjectives commonly used to describe the potential impact of new and emerging technologies on society. Joblessness, human decay, and the Singularity sit on the opposite side constantly reminding us of the darker Read more

Social Innovation Redux

28 October 201714 October 2021
Raul Zambrano
Human Development, Social Innovation
Context I was invited to the Social Innovation – Driving Force for Social Change (SI-DRIVE) final conference, which took place earlier this week in Brussels. SI-DRIVE is a four-year project funded by the EU and launched in 2014. The project Read more

25 Years of the Sustainable Development Networking Programme, SDNP

13 June 201717 December 2017
Raul Zambrano
e-governance, Governance, ICTD, Innovation, Social Innovation
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 Read more

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