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It only gets worse for the poor
Aithorix compares his journey with Stitchwel’s and discovers how unequal the system really is
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“They didn’t push me out. The system did.”
Last episode had Aithorix reminisce his first time at a passport office in Bureaunia as he waited more than eight hours to collect a passport form. This week, he concludes his memories about the entirety of the passport process and how he felt as he left Bureaunia to go for higher studies.
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“Get the hell out,” says conventional wisdom.
Today, Aithorix is Chief AI Advisor at Bureaunia. Yet, there was a time, decades ago, when an experience in his country made him feel utterly hopeless. That experience? Having to stand in a passport queue in Bureaunia. A day he remembers vividly, a day where his then young, impressionable mind realized how a state…
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Is Small AI “real-world” ready?
One morning, Joseph Mwangi almost had a heart attack. His crops were dying. He pulled out his phone and opened CropDoktor, an AI platform built just for farmers to detect plant diseases, and typed his question in his native language.
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The Myth of Small AI
I found it heartening to see not just one but multiple sessions focused on Small AI at the 2026 WB/IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC last week. For years, the AI narrative was dominated by Big AI with mammoth models like GPT or Gemini or Claude or Grok, boasting trillions of parameters and requiring…
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Built to Pay. Not Built to Fix.
Bureaunia’s fraud detection system ran in seconds. Its grievance system in 47 days. This is not a technical gap. It is a governance choice.
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When Your Identity Isn’t Yours
I’m Mariamix, enrolled in the digital G2P system of Bureaunia. I am excited to be a pioneer in my country’s digital transformation of public service delivery. It will make our lives easier, cheaper, and better!
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Who designs AI for women?
My mother was always thinking about a future the rest of us hadn’t arrived at yet. Not only was she thinking about it, she was ever ready to craft it. After all, Tagore’s ‘jodi tor dak shune keu na ashe, tobe ekla cholo re’ (if noone answers your call, walk alone) was her favourite…
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Turning “Money Delivered” Into “Money Received”
Commerce Minister Tradexa sits in her office, staring at a dashboard full of green checkmarks. Every metric looks perfect: 95% of welfare payments are delivered digitally. Zero delays. Zero errors.