Automation and AI: Implications for African Development Prospects?

A CGD note.  I'm comparatively optimistic about automation: Africa needs more of it, the rate of automation does not appear to be rapid enough to suggest short-term dislocation, manufacturing jobs have moved rather than gone away and services offers another technology-enhanced route to development.

What Robopocalypse?

Suggesting there is no end of work.  For SAIS Perspectives.

The Internet Debates Most Important to the Poor

In most of the world, net neutrality and ICANN are less important than infrastructure and free speech. For Slate.

Donors Funding Technology: 10 Recommendations

Donors should take the importance of context on board when designing their technology interventions.  Well, duh. For CGD.

When Television Is More Than an “Idiot Box”

Piece for Medium on what the TV might teach the Internet about education --entertainment is probably the way to go.

Why Apple's New Phones Won't Change the World but Nokia's Will

Cheap cellphones are the revolutionary force for change.  In @BW.

The False Promise of Classroom Technology

@BW column on IT in schools.

Can Silicon Valley Save the World

With Justin Sandefur.  Tech & Dev need careful mixing.  In @FP.

Think the Internet Leads to Growth? Think Again

Internet revolution.  Pah.  In @BW.

The Case for Big Brother

Biometrics as a tool for development for FP.  Upset libertarians are fun in the comments.

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