Publications
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May 7, 2024
Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy
Technologies and tech companies are accused of creating a myriad of societal problems. This book exposes them as mostly myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations.
April 25, 2024
Growing Evidence Shows Importance of AI for Health Care
As demographic change and aging populations in many Western countries entail higher relative health-care burdens, AI’s support in diagnosis, drug development, and health-care operations may serve as a much-needed remedy.
April 22, 2024
Podcast: Navigating Deepfakes While Promoting Innovation, With Ryan Long
The past few years have seen a remarkable rise in the quality and quantity of deepfakes.
April 22, 2024
LATAM Health Champions, 2024
Innovation plays a critical role in improving public health and in overcoming global health challenges. The call for LATAM Health Champions, which ran from February 5 to March 5, 2024, received more than 60 applications proposing innovative health solutions to a wide range of health challenges. Here, the top 20 are highlighted.
April 22, 2024
Fact of the Week: Internet Access Reduced Women’s Job Losses in Latin America During COVID-19
A recent working paper found that women in Latin America and the Caribbean with internet access had a 5 percent lower rate of job pre-pandemic job loss and about a 4 percent increase in their labor force participation rate than those without internet.
April 22, 2024
Technical and Legal Criteria for Assessing Cloud Trustworthiness
Global data and technology governance will be challenging without cooperation on cloud trustworthiness. Policymakers should avoid simplistic assessments based on nationality and instead develop more holistic assessments based on legal and technical criteria.
April 19, 2024
Canada’s 2024 Federal Budget: The Good, the Bad, and the Maybe for Innovation, Productivity, and Competitiveness
The word “innovation” appears a total of 97 times and “productivity” 63 times in Canada’s 2024 federal budget, and many measures targeted towards innovation and productivity reflect that focus. However, some of the funds being disbursed are tangential at best to actually addressing Canada’s declining productivity and supporting Canada’s innovation ecosystem.
April 19, 2024
Accelerating Digital Technology Adoption Among U.S. Small and Medium-Sized Manufacturers
Helping SME manufacturers adopt digital technologies will boost productivity, expand output, and allow them to simultaneously raise wages, compete in global markets, and be more flexible in their production processes.
April 19, 2024
Oklahoma’s Failure in Digital IDs Highlights Lesson in Building Accessibility From the Start
Given that more than 19 states are in the process of implementing digital IDs, Oklahoma serves as a cautionary tale on the importance of building accessibility into the system from the beginning.
April 17, 2024
Why The EU Should Look To Estonia To Achieve Its Vision For A Digital Europe
At the start of its digital transformation, Estonia had a GDP per capita of $3,134. By 2022, it was $28,247—an increase of more than 800 percent in less than 30 years. Its journey holds lessons for the EU.