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Learning about how/if CBDCs can help with financial inclusion #worldbank #IMF

"The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools **for us** to manage the public conversation, versus building tools **for the people using Twitter** to easily manage it for themselves."

"The #effectiveness of #socialprotection in five African countries through normal times and times of #crisis" - Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia tax–benefit microsimulation models UNU-WIDER wider.unu.edu/sites/default/…

📣We're excited to announce the advisory panel for our The Nobel Prize Summit campaign to combat #InformationPollution with #OpenSource! From diverse sectors & regions, these experts bring a wealth of knowledge on how tech can make an impact Learn more ➡️ digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/dpgs-info…

There was also a panel of #DPG-s sharing how open source software fits into this picture, especially giving countries more control and flexibility. Digital Public Goods Alliance OpenCRVS OpenSPP Mojaloop Foundation #OpenG2P #CoreMIS @sp_convergence #id4d #g2px #dpi

It was great to be part of the Panel! #digitalpublicgoods

Survey by country: "Products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks" China: yeah, AI good! South Korea, Turkey, Brazil: Meh. Europe: AI bad. France, Canada, Netherlands, US: OMG, we are doomed! From the Stanford AI Index: aiindex.stanford.edu/report/?sf1763…

Tamwini launched in Iraq!

How can #DigitalPublicGoods (DPGs) offer a new pathway to promote sustainable development? Our new report highlights lessons learned from four digital solutions and a digital government programme (a2i). Explore it now: go.undp.org/QzKY #DPGs4SDGs #DigitalUNDP

"Now the real-world results of all this theory are finally in, and it's clear that in practice, microservices pose perhaps the biggest siren song for needlessly complicating your system." world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazo…

To finally bury the scourge of microservices, all we need is a hot new thing to take its place in the hype cycle. So how about just renaming monoliths to megaservices! That sounds like a hot new term that could carry at least three years of conferences, books, and consultants!

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The Salesforce AI team just solved LLM text summarization They released a new prompting technique called Chain of Density (CoD). Researchers realized that there's a delicate balance between the amount of details and core ideas in a summary. They then created a prompt that

#DataProtection is key for fostering a safe digital environment for all. Workshop led by HCT-CWG, UNICEF Sri Lanka & @openspp exploring Data Protection Act & its implications aims to enhance awareness & skills of humanitarian actors to handle personal data responsibly & safely.

Meta just announced that Code Llama was now free for both research and commercial. This might the strongest competitor to ChatGPT: ▸ Can generate, explain, and debug your code ▸ Handles input 100,000 tokens ▸ Free for research + commercial use ▸ Outperforms most open models

Social Protection Week starts at ⁦Asian Development Bank⁩

We just wrapped up a fantastic week at #APSP2023. Lots of great insights from the many esteemed panelists and experts on social protection, but the key takeaways for us were: - The integration of social protection with other sectors is vital to support inclusive growth and job

Yes, important to keep in mind that the very reason for the accelerated progress in AI is the fast and open exchange of ideas, publications, datasets, and code. Whoever embraces this open exchange can be part of the leading pack. Whoever cuts themselves from it inevitably falls

We are excited to announce that OpenSPP has been honored with the "Highly Commended" distinction in the #OpenSource Creation category at the #FutureofGovernmentAwards presented by UNDP Tech, Innovation and Sustainable Development, Public Digital, and AWS for Government. This honor highlights our team's dedication to

"You'd do well to remember that open source is first and foremost a method of collaboration between programmers who show up to do the work. Not an entitlement program for petulant users to get free stuff or a seat at the table where decisions are made." world.hey.com/dhh/open-sourc…