Google I/O 2018 was exciting, fun, full of new innovations and most of all, about the tremendous potential that artificial intelligence has to augment human capabilities. Google is betting big on AI and one clear manifestation of that intent was the rebranding of Google Research division to simply, Google AI…

The woman was crying and saying something in an incomprehensible manner. I was sitting there, a couple of feet away, wondering what I had said wrong. The man sitting beside her didn’t react to her sudden burst of tears — she is his wife and he has gotten used to…

What does 1,000 young (-ish) people from 120+ countries do for nine days if you put them together? Spoiler: it’s not going to be one big party. Some context to begin with: The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), adopted in the UN Leaders’ Summit in September 2017 got one thing right…

A few weeks back I had the opportunity to talk to a crowd of young and buzzing youth activists through one of our monthly innovation forums. With the number of youth reaching almost 52 per cent of the total population of Bangladesh, it is a group that we can ignore…