Is India the World’s Next Great Economic Power?: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Harvard Business Review: Bhaskar Chakravorti | India's economic rise seems promising with drivers like demand, supply, policy reforms, and geopolitics, but challenges remain.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
Advancing the Future of Work in Africa through Digital Transformation

Fuel African labor markets: Embrace digital shifts, empower 'systems orchestrators,' drive growth for 375M job seekers.

Pride and Prejudice
Dispatches from the Digital Planet: August 2023

Check out the latest research insights, analyst spotlights, and news from Digital Planet.

April Dispatch
To travel or not to travel? Indian passport's tryst with visas: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti

BBC: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti | According to the Henley Passport Index 2023, India has visa free access to 59 countries around the world. But what does this mean for the world's most populous country and its access to foreign nations? How powerful is the Indian passport? And how easy is it for Indians to travel abroad for vacation, education and employment?

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
The Generative AI Revolution: A Glimpse Into the Future of Work: Bhaskar chakravorti - copy

nftnow: Bhaskar Chakravorti | A look at how previous waves of digital technologies affected workers offers some insight into AI’s potential impact in the years to come.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
The missed opportunity in the AI boom: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti - copy

ABC News Daily: Interview with Bhaskar Chakravorti Artificial intelligence is disrupting and transforming our working lives. While it holds the promise of greater productivity, it could also threaten a wide range of jobs and make income inequality even worse. Today, how research into artificial intelligence tech may be targeting the wrong problems and missing chances to help humanity.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
How GPT Mania Could Harm AI Innovation: Bhaskar Chakravorti - copy

Foreign Policy: Bhaskar Chakravorti | The scramble to win the GPT race could divert essential resources from the development of more socially meaningful uses of AI.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
The Case for Investing in Digital Public Infrastructure

Harvard Business Review: Bhaskar Chakravorti |
India, a country frequently called out for poor physical infrastructure, has experienced a radical transformation in the digital space.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
How will AI affect workers? Tech waves of the past show how unpredictable the path can be

The Conversation: Bhaskar Chakravorti | New digital technologies have been a constant for workers over the past few decades, with a mixed record on the economy and individuals’ daily lives. AI’s effect will likely be just as unpredictable.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
Beyond Access: Fostering Sustainable and Inclusive Climate Solutions Through Digital Technologies
Beyond Access: Harnessing Digital Technologies for Education and Upskilling
Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors, Part 2: Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Part 2: Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors, Part 2
Digital Intelligence Index 2022

A collaborative research platform aimed at providing data and evidence-driven, actionable insights to leaders in government, business and technology.

Digital Intelligence Index
Pandemic pushes women online

Bhaskar Chakravorti and Christina Filipovic join the BBC's Digital Planet podcast to discuss how the pandemic sparked an improvement in gender digital parity in select countries in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
Digital Inclusion vs. Innovation Momentum: Is There a Tradeoff? And Must Economies Choose?

Is it possible for an economy to be both digitally inclusive and at the forefront of innovation-based digital growth?

Pride and Prejudice
Where to Find Top AI Talent

As the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) grows, so does the demand for AI talent. To find diverse AI talent, companies will need to look outside the usual technology talent hubs, such as the San Francisco Bay Area.

LBGTQ - Affiliate Candidate Prevalence
Global Digital Inclusion: Progress to Parity Scorecard - copy

Benchmarking 90 economies' progress in closing the gender, rural-urban, and socioeconomic digital divide

Pride and Prejudice
How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission

Right now, half of Americans aren’t using broadband internet. In an effort to close this digital divide, the Biden administration has launched the Internet for All initiative: a massive investment of funds to expand access to high-speed internet in the world’s most valuable and second most evolved digital economy.

How Biden’s “Internet for All” Initiative Can Actually Fulfill Its Mission
The Impact of Internet Access on Covid-19 Mortality in the United States​ - copy

An increase in broadband access in the US reduced Covid mortality rates, with the most significant impact in metro areas. Internet access is an increasingly important tool in the public health toolbox.

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors
Broadband Infrastructure Funding and the Digital Divide: Prioritizing People Over Miles

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the latest source of funding to expand broadband across the US.

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors
Beyond Access: How Digital Technologies Power Inclusive Innovation in Smallholder Farming
Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors - copy

High growth sectors and high median wage jobs are still out of reach for college educated Black people in America.

Glass Ceilings, Broken Rungs, and Gummy Floors
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