This talk was delivered on April 29, 2017 in Oakland, California, to the Fulbright Class of 2017 shortly returning to Pakistan. I have added links and certain references, details and qualifications that I could not mention while speaking (in the interest of time). I was invited by the Institute of South Asia Studies at UC […]
I was invited to deliver a lecture for a Technology for Accountability Lab course being put together by Vivek S. for Stanford University. More details: The Program on Liberation Technology (LibTech) at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) together with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) are proud to launch a free massive […]
I was invited by the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley to lead the final debrief session at the 2016 Fulbright Reentry Seminar for scholars from Pakistan. This is a short-clip of the full talk. Clearly, I was having a good time.
I was invited by the Institute for South Asia Studies at UC Berkeley to speak about Social Enterprise at the 2016 Fulbright Reentry Seminar for scholars from Pakistan. Unfortunately, the video quality isn’t great, but here are the slides.
This article is an abridged version of a longer historical case study produced by Innovations for Successful Societies, a research program at Princeton University. In early 2008, an irate government official walked into the office of Zubair Bhatti, the district coordination officer (DCO) of Jhang district, in Pakistan’s Punjab province. The official complained that, when he tried to […]
I was hired by the PeaceTech Exchange (PTX), on behalf of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), to train Community Service Organizations (CSO) and public sector managers in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, on using smartphones to collect data using Kobo Toolbox and Open Data Kit. Fellow trainers included Heath Morrison, Tarik Nesh-Nash, and Evanna Hu. The […]
Asim Fayaz only wants to do things others haven’t done before. At the ripe old age of 22, Asim started consulting for the World Bank and played a key role to enable millions of Pakistani citizens to give feedback on the government’s service delivery on things like emergency medical services, property transfer and police related […]
Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and collaborate directly with the citizen? This book provides example […]
Interview by IDG WebStudio for TECH-ED.
Reading Robert Chamber’s paper “Poverty and livelihoods: whose reality counts?” reminded me of an incident a friend narrated a couple of years back. At the time, he was working for a development sector think-tank in Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital. The incident occurred after he had just arrived at a 5-star hotel to attend a USAid-funded conference […]