When Regulators are Unable to Manage Industry Cross-Overs
We are seeing more movement of products across industries and the inability of regulators to catch these. Take for example the case of...
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What's New
Some of my blog articles, events, videos or books!
Jun 15
Right to Childhood in an AI, gamified online world.
The right to childhood (and its an ambiguous one) would fall more likely under The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), more...
Jun 8
Metaverse and Human Rights
If you are attending the EuroDIG - European Dialogue on Internet Governance 2024, please attend our panel jointly created with IEEE...
Jun 3
Future Government Skills
If you work in the public sector (or aspire to, or work with the government affairs department of a private sector company), this open...
May 11
Post-COVID
Post-COVID, life was supposed to get easier - we had onboarded AI and remote working/learning, embraced delivery services.....but we are...
Mar 26
Autonomous Avatars & Digital Me
According to Kozuka, “There can be three possible approaches to the law of avatars. They are to treat an avatar either as a device...
Mar 6
AI Enabled Business - Our Book Launch
Yesterday was special, we launched our new book, AI Enable Business: A Smart Decision Kit at MBR School of Government. We started this...
Jan 28
Moving into the Metaverse, AI ethics and all those things.....
Image Source: Generated with Adobe Firefly More physical brands are moving into virtual places. Honda just tied up with gaming company...
Dec 17, 2023
Metaverse and Human Rights
This was a short panel and with some amazing contributors and of course big shout out to Monika Manolova! On the 75th anniversary of the...
Oct 10, 2023
Agile Nations Metaverse Self-Governance White Paper
Since April 2022, the mazing team and I under the UAE Minister for State's Office for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy & Remote...
Oct 6, 2023
Future-proofing the Metaverse
Can we future-proof the metaverse? Possible, by Whole-of-Society participation. This means individuals, families, institutions (private,...
Sep 24, 2023
The Right to Work and the Metaverse
Here is a short video of the talk I gave at the Council of Europe on 14 September. The overview of the detailed study is available here:...
Sep 16, 2023
Council of Europe: Metaverse
Presented on the topic of #Metaverse as an expert at an informal meeting to the Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe on 14th...
May 7, 2023
When Technology and Public Purpose Meet
Yesterday I attended the Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Summit 2023, a project under Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and...
Jan 17, 2023
Metaverse and Trade-offs
Source: mage by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay This my latest article just published in the California Management Review Insights! Managers...
Dec 13, 2022
Part III: Future of Metaverse Governance: Some Lessons from the Past: The 1990s
Source: Image by Merlin Lightpainting from Pixabay This period was an exciting one for the development of the metaverse. The book Snow...
Dec 4, 2022
The Business of Personal Data Sales and Analytics: Governance
Source: S.Herman/F. Ritcher from Pixabay Data fuels AI. The business of selling personal data can be overt or covert, and the challenge...
Nov 3, 2022
Part II - Future of Metaverse Governance (cont.)
Some Lessons from the Past: The 1970s-90s A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork...
Nov 2, 2022
Part I Future of Metaverse Governance
This is a small series of blog on the history of governance in the "metaverse". It is inspired from a previous paper I was part of that...
Oct 11, 2022
Synthetic Biology (Synbio) Governance Workshop: Future Forward - some insights
A futurist makes forecasts and predictions about what might happen to human society, technology, the economy and other key systems in the...
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