Shaping Futures
e-magazine of The Michael Dukakis Institute
Intellectual Society
Nguyen Anh Tuan While writing a proposal for the Democratic Alliance on Digital Governance (DADG) and developing the Social Contract 2020, a New Social Contract in the Age of AI, I conceived an idea: to upgrade civil society to intellectual society. It will function like civil society, however Intellectual Society will be a watchdog, monitor […]
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