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"In these volatile times, people tend to overfocus on uncertainties and gloss over certainties. When they perceive that everything is up for grabs, they don’t notice that many paths have already been laid or are locked in" sloanreview.mit.edu/article/scen...
Assess What Is Certain in a Sea of Unknowns
A new scenario planning framework can help leaders better explore potential futures by first identifying what won’t change.
sloanreview.mit.edu
December 16, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"In these volatile times, people tend to overfocus on uncertainties and gloss over certainties. When they perceive that everything is up for grabs, they don’t notice that many paths have already been laid or are locked in" sloanreview.mit.edu/article/scen...
Can the Global South salvage international law? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
Can the Global South salvage international law?
A group of nations is pushing for justice and accountability in Palestine. Can their effort help bring an end to the impunity of powerful states?
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Can the Global South salvage international law? www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
"This series is not seeking to influence development practitioners to adopt AI tools. Instead, it’s about helping the development system - communities, governments, multilaterals, civil society, contractors - to think more clearly about AI’s implications" www.devintelligencelab.com/analyses/ai-...
AI x Development: mindsets shaping the moment | The Lab
Geordie Fung A brief illustration of the many mindsets shaping AI in international development.
www.devintelligencelab.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"This series is not seeking to influence development practitioners to adopt AI tools. Instead, it’s about helping the development system - communities, governments, multilaterals, civil society, contractors - to think more clearly about AI’s implications" www.devintelligencelab.com/analyses/ai-...
While modern advertising occasionally acknowledges this connection, most consumers remain largely unaware of the drink’s West African origins and the ancient long-distance trade networks that were sustained by the trade in Kola www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
The African origins of Cola: Long distance Trade in pre-colonial West Africa (ca. 1000-1900 CE)
In classical and medieval Arabic sources, West African trade is most commonly associated with gold, which was exchanged along trans-Saharan routes that crisscrossed the desert in patterns later echoed...
www.africanhistoryextra.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
While modern advertising occasionally acknowledges this connection, most consumers remain largely unaware of the drink’s West African origins and the ancient long-distance trade networks that were sustained by the trade in Kola www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
“Reimagining means you can’t think of the government as a fixed institution but a system or machine with parts that can be redone to better meet human needs" govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
Pakistan Digital Authority’s big ambitions to rewrite the social contract between government and citizens
The newly minted agency is focusing on sub-sectoral stacks for its national DPI, and global partnerships to tap into country’s developer community to build open-source solutions, says the agency’s Cha...
govinsider.asia
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Reimagining means you can’t think of the government as a fixed institution but a system or machine with parts that can be redone to better meet human needs" govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
Why do cities struggle to mobilise and deploy financial capital to fund their climate transitions? Piloting systemic finance in Dublin centreforpublicimpact.org/resource-hub...
Piloting Systemic Finance for City Climate Action
Discover how Dublin City Council’s circular economy practices across the city’s built environment offer practical lessons for driving meaningful change in urban climate finance.
centreforpublicimpact.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Why do cities struggle to mobilise and deploy financial capital to fund their climate transitions? Piloting systemic finance in Dublin centreforpublicimpact.org/resource-hub...
2,000 years of “prevention is better than cure” publichealthy.co.uk/an-incomplet...
Two thousand years of “prevention is better than cure” – Public healthy
publichealthy.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
2,000 years of “prevention is better than cure” publichealthy.co.uk/an-incomplet...
Sovereignty through ownership risks being a fantasy for all but the wealthiest. Sovereignty through interoperability may be achievable for nearly everyone www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-...
The Path to a Sovereign Tech Stack is Via a Commodified Tech Stack | TechPolicy.Press
Strategic standardization of cloud infrastructure backed by procurement power and market forces is the right way to tame the hyperscalers, writes David Eaves.
www.techpolicy.press
December 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Sovereignty through ownership risks being a fantasy for all but the wealthiest. Sovereignty through interoperability may be achievable for nearly everyone www.techpolicy.press/the-path-to-...
"If this open source breaks down, it’s as if a road or bridge collapses: everything else becomes much more complicated and dangerous" english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Adriana Groh: ‘The internet works thanks to a shared infrastructure that nobody owns, but that we must take care of’
The head of Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in open source to achieve technological independence
english.elpais.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"If this open source breaks down, it’s as if a road or bridge collapses: everything else becomes much more complicated and dangerous" english.elpais.com/technology/2...
In the context of suffering, impartiality or neutrality is deeply unethical www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2025/...
Decolonise How? How to pick which crises we cover
Crisis roulette, with a single emergency or disaster dominating global attention at any one time, doesn’t put the needs of impacted communities first.
www.thenewhumanitarian.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In the context of suffering, impartiality or neutrality is deeply unethical www.thenewhumanitarian.org/column/2025/...
Not surprisingly, gov't officials think citizens value primarily efficiency and increased compliance as innovation benefits, but citizens have broader/different considerations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Misaligned expectations in public sector innovation: differences between citizens and public servants
Public sector innovations often fail if they do not meet citizens’ expectations. However, little is known about how well public servants understand these expectations. This study identifies a perce...
www.tandfonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Not surprisingly, gov't officials think citizens value primarily efficiency and increased compliance as innovation benefits, but citizens have broader/different considerations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Payments giant PayPal is in talks with fintech players in Africa as part of plans to launch a new cross-border digital wallet platform on the continent in 2026 www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Exclusive: PayPal plans Africa global digital wallet launch in 2026
The company is in talks to roll out a new “interoperable” platform on the continent, says its Middle East and Africa chief.
www.semafor.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Payments giant PayPal is in talks with fintech players in Africa as part of plans to launch a new cross-border digital wallet platform on the continent in 2026 www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
The art world’s latest breakout star is a prime minister www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
The art world’s latest breakout star is a prime minister
A Berlin gallery has found unexpected buyer demand for the works of Albanian leader Edi Rama.
www.semafor.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The art world’s latest breakout star is a prime minister www.semafor.com/article/12/0...
For Isindebele, spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe, they had such a hard time finding written resources that they resorted to a government manual for goat herders to help write their prompts edition.cnn.com/world/africa...
Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them? | CNN
For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and cre...
edition.cnn.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
For Isindebele, spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe, they had such a hard time finding written resources that they resorted to a government manual for goat herders to help write their prompts edition.cnn.com/world/africa...
[Hmmm....] Innovation in development: lessons from World Bank experience blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/in...
Innovation in development: Lessons from World Bank experience
Innovation is essential for development, helping us adapt faster, design smarter solutions that deliver impact at scale, and do more with less. At the World Bank Group, innovation has always been crit...
blogs.worldbank.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
[Hmmm....] Innovation in development: lessons from World Bank experience blogs.worldbank.org/en/voices/in...
French startup Biomemory stores data in credit-card sized “DNA Cards”; Atlas Data Storage encodes data onto synthetic DNA and then dehydrates it into a shelf-stable powder to be reconstituted at will issues.org/futuretensef...
Can We Cool Down Data? | Future Tense Fiction
The energy demands of data centers—accelerated by AI—are steering us toward disaster. Could biology help bring us back from the brink?
issues.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
French startup Biomemory stores data in credit-card sized “DNA Cards”; Atlas Data Storage encodes data onto synthetic DNA and then dehydrates it into a shelf-stable powder to be reconstituted at will issues.org/futuretensef...
"I’ve watched the world invest in better civic-space monitoring... These tools matter. But they don’t capture what I lived through in Tunisia. They can detect formal restrictions. They struggle to detect the human signals that precede them" www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploi...
The Exploitable Phase: The Stage of Civic Decline We Still Don’t Name
Civic space breaks long before repression arrives. It breaks when belief erodes.
www.linkedin.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
"I’ve watched the world invest in better civic-space monitoring... These tools matter. But they don’t capture what I lived through in Tunisia. They can detect formal restrictions. They struggle to detect the human signals that precede them" www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploi...
As India debates the future of work in the gig economy, Bharat Taxi emerges as a significant test case: can a cooperative, zero-commission model scale nationally and compete with entrenched ride-hailing giants? platform.coop/blog/india-l...
India Launches Bharat Taxi, A National Platform Co-op | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
India is preparing to launch Bharat Taxi, a government-backed, cooperative ride-hailing platform designed to free commercial drivers from the high commissions charged by private aggregators.
platform.coop
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
As India debates the future of work in the gig economy, Bharat Taxi emerges as a significant test case: can a cooperative, zero-commission model scale nationally and compete with entrenched ride-hailing giants? platform.coop/blog/india-l...
99 women govtech innovators across 29 countries govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
Meet the Women In GovTech 2025
Themed ‘How inclusive tech builds trust for all’, GovInsider's annual report celebrates 99 women innovators across 29 countries, setting a new diversity record by expanding its global reach.
govinsider.asia
December 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
99 women govtech innovators across 29 countries govinsider.asia/intl-en/arti...
In the early 2010s Greek tax authorities began to pore over google earth data to detect undeclared swimming pools and find tax cheats. People started buying green covers for their pools, allegedly some even with a grass-like texture, to camouflage dzinnbauer.medium.com/ai-in-anti-c...
AI in anti-corruption — will success breed failure?
Goodhart’s law, an old econ joke and lots of optionality in between
dzinnbauer.medium.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In the early 2010s Greek tax authorities began to pore over google earth data to detect undeclared swimming pools and find tax cheats. People started buying green covers for their pools, allegedly some even with a grass-like texture, to camouflage dzinnbauer.medium.com/ai-in-anti-c...
What matters is not arriving quickly at coherence, but learning how to recognisecoherence when it begins to emerge, and how to respond to it substack.com/inbox/post/1...
On Theatre, Civic Organisations and the Emergence of Spatial Dramaturgy.
My interest in the intersection of theatre and social/civic organisations is a lived one.
substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
What matters is not arriving quickly at coherence, but learning how to recognisecoherence when it begins to emerge, and how to respond to it substack.com/inbox/post/1...
"What is most disturbing is the assistant readily admitted the clip, which shows him standing in a waist-deep flood, was generated by AI. He also indicated he did this as an "experiment" in political communications" www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...
AI double-edged sword in floods
The flooding in Hat Yai has exposed not only how inadequate the Thai bureaucracy is in managing a major disaster, especially one involving complex weather data and a high-density urban area, but also ...
www.bangkokpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"What is most disturbing is the assistant readily admitted the clip, which shows him standing in a waist-deep flood, was generated by AI. He also indicated he did this as an "experiment" in political communications" www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...
How to innovate in the public sector, without changing procurement law. Experiences from Spain from the fab
Gobe team www.gobe.studio/insights/inn...
Gobe team www.gobe.studio/insights/inn...
Cómo innovar en el sector público sin cambiar la Ley de Contratos
Una guía con tres estrategias prácticas de contratación pública innovadora para incorporar tecnología, abrir el mercado a startups y acelerar la digitalización con la normativa actual.
www.gobe.studio
December 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
How to innovate in the public sector, without changing procurement law. Experiences from Spain from the fab
Gobe team www.gobe.studio/insights/inn...
Gobe team www.gobe.studio/insights/inn...
Europe’s 1st national AI law: inside Italy’s bid to assert digital sovereignty rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/europes...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Europe’s 1st national AI law: inside Italy’s bid to assert digital sovereignty rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/europes...
This playbook introduces a pattern language for early-stage scientific field building, highlighting the levers that help promising ideas move from latency to growth www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/playbooks/sc...
Scientific Field Creation — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
www.renaissancephilanthropy.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This playbook introduces a pattern language for early-stage scientific field building, highlighting the levers that help promising ideas move from latency to growth www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/playbooks/sc...