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2020: Revolutions of New Platform Economies
Moving
forward, the world of borderless global business managed by monstrous-hyper-metadata,
mysterious-artificial-intelligence and mandatory-cyber-security intertwined
with mobilized-block-chain will soon become new reality.Who will own it, control it,...
Turning challenges into opportunities: Africa’s industrial development in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
When world leaders gathered in New York
for the 70th session of the General Assembly in 2016, and proclaimed the period
2016-2025 as the Third Industrial...
Decade of the Battery: Sustainable Batteries Represent the Best Prospect for Meeting Paris Climate Goals
Advances in the production, use and reuse of batteries
mean that the technology could become the most significant intervention to keep
global warming within the limits...
How to Design Responsible Technology
Biased algorithms and noninclusive data sets are contributing to a
growing ‘techlash’ around the world. Today, the World Economic Forum, the
international organisation for public-private cooperation...
Agricultural Innovation & Technology Hold Key to Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
Developing countries need to dramatically increase agricultural innovation
and the use of technology by farmers, to eliminate poverty, meet the rising
demand for food, and cope...
Digitally shaping a greener world
Women were not allowed on map-making ship voyages until the 1960s—it was
believed that they would bring bad luck. Spanish nuns made maps in the...
Chandrayaan-2 was really a failure, but for whom?
Before leaving Pakistan I had written an article
“India’s Space Diplomacy in 2017: Where Pakistan Is Standing?” published in Weekly
Technology Times. In that article I...
A Short History of the ASEAN Digital Future
This month, Malaysia celebrates its 62nd anniversary of Independence,
led by 94-year old but digitally savvy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Singapore also celebrated its 54th National...
New technologies, artificial intelligence aid fight against global terrorism
Although terrorists have become skilled at manipulating the Internet and
other new technologies, artificial intelligence or AI, is a powerful tool in
the fight against them,...
BRIDGE for Cities 4.0: Connecting Cities through the New Industrial Revolution
Organized jointly by the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization (UNIDO) and the Finance Center for South-South Cooperation
(FCSSC), “BRIDGE for Cities 4.0 –
Connecting Cities through the...