Interdisciplinary Research Journal and Archives
The digital divide 2.0 in the age of online education is no longer just about who has an internet connection, but about speed, affordability, devices, and digital skills.
AI and the End of Poverty: The world’s poorest people are already living with artificial intelligence — just not in the way most TED talks imagine.
This article examines the rise of “digital” and “data colonialism” and asks whether the emerging AI-driven digital economy is reproducing old colonial patterns in new forms.
Africa’s Green Leap: This article explores how Africa can use green industrialization—renewable energy, climate-smart manufacturing, and sustainable trade—as a pathway to economic catch-up.
This article asks how African countries can build “innovation states” by learning selectively from South Korea and Malaysia.
This article explores how African countries can leverage digital leapfrogging—through mobile money, artificial intelligence (AI), and education technology (EdTech)—to accelerate development without replicating the slow, carbon-intensive industrialization of the 20th century.
Vietnam’s Quiet Miracle: This article examines how Vietnam transformed from a war-torn agrarian economy into one of the world’s most dynamic manufacturing exporters, and what African countries can realistically learn from this “quiet miracle.”