Published Fridays
Governance Research Brief
A weekly selection of serious new research on sovereign AI, public administration and public judgement, interpreted for Kenya, the Global South and the wider world.
Latest edition
No. 1
When the Algorithm Enters the Government File
A practitioner's reading of seven recent studies on sovereign AI, public administration and the judgement for which government must remain answerable.
Policy synthesis
Three questions carried from research into public decision.
- 01
Can Kenya build a shared public-sector AI evaluation service?
- 02
Who may halt an institutionally unready deployment?
- 03
What must be owned, shared regionally or secured by contract?
Inside No. 1
Public values in procurement
From abstract values to tests a public buyer can use
County readiness
Where national ambition encounters facilities, staff and service conditions
Sovereignty and contracts
Ownership, dependence, resilience and the freedom to exit
Responsibility and power
Why accountability must follow the consequential decision