This paper proposes a model for African AI governance centered on developing four key components: Data Sets and Data Systems, Digital Infrastructure, Talent, and AI Markets. This framework is presented as an alternative to premature regulation, which we feel wouldn't be effective given the nascent stage of Africa’s AI ecosystem.
6 years after his passing, Ingvar Kamprad's original writings on humanistic business and empowerment over bureaucracy still steer IKEA's operations today. I explore the 1976 "Testament" and 1996 "Leadership Bible" documents that encode Kamprad's prescient vision for balancing profits and ethics through uplifting people - principles growing more relevant than ever amid global crises.
Beyond furniture, Kamprad forged an philosophical framework for scalable yet soulful capitalism in an age of inequality and climate uncertainty. By revisiting his counterculture wisdom on simplicity, cost-conscious innovation, and servant leadership, we find surprising lessons for sustainable progress by focusing on community resilience versus positional power. Leaders today have much to learn from this quiet iconoclast who democratized design for the many not the few.
"...The billionaire founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad, had long maintained that he and his family no longer controlled the global furniture giant. But a Swedish documentary claimed on Thursday that he has used a previously unknown foundation to run the company in secret and avoid taxes.
Analysis and commentary on the 2023 Government AI Readiness Index and use it to explore the nuances of AI adoption in North America and Western Europe.
By that reasoning, Microsoft isn't a technology company but an ad company. Somehow, you're missing all the checkmarks. https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us
Change was driven by new technologies, such as sharing files between computers, or HID research.
Whether they are now an ad company is debatable, but it is certainly where they want to be. Even their new features used to be technical driven (Use IE to get ActiveX), now they are trying to get more eyeballs on adverts (use Edge or we will subject you to more pop-ups!).
