How technology will help governments address global grand challenges
By Nitin Dahad Earlier this month some of the world’s tech company leaders convened at a two-day conference in Half Moon Bay, California, to discuss the impact of technology on…
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Should governments move as fast as the pace of technology innovation?
Over the last two weeks, the technology sector has seen some major gatherings of the tech sector. This includes, among many others, the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland, and the…
Spotlight on Arizona: an innovation ecosystem to support economic growth
Sometimes labeled ‘Silicon Desert’, the state of Arizona in the USA has seen a tech sector explosion, with multinational companies increasing their profile in the region, supported by a growing…
Emerging Indian tech parks show how countries and states are creating their own ‘Silicon Valley’ like ecosystems
When I first started working in the technology sector in 1985, the ‘Mecca’ for the electronics industry was Silicon Valley in the USA – if you were a new graduate…
Middle East and Africa: youth are driving its innovation ecosystems
A headline that caught my eye this week was in the Huffington Post, ‘Why a War & Shrinking Economy Can’t Stop Syrian Innovation’, and having just returned from Libya, I…
Venture Madness: technology changing economic development
At the IEDC annual conference in Philadelphia, USA, last October, I participated in a panel entitled, “Transforming Economies: Economic Development 21.0”. The premise of the debate was based on how…
Bringing Africa into the global ecosystem
Africa is a continent where not much is known by the rest of the world about what goes on in technology innovation. If you are asked about innovation in Africa,…
New York’s Silicon Alley vs London’s Tech City: which is better?
In the USA, New York’s ‘Silicon Alley’ often gets compared to Silicon Valley in California, so it was interesting to see a different comparison being made as part of a…
Bright ideas driving public sector innovation in austere times
The focus of many western governments is very single-minded: to reduce public expenditure in order to reduce financial deficits, resulting in sever cuts in public services. They should therefore take…
Learning from Silicon Valley
I’ve just returned from a week in Silicon Valley. As always, I get a lot of inspiration from the way things work and happen in the Valley. It’s appropriate then,…