Editor’s Note: Political risk consultant Dr. Maha Hosain Aziz explores possible solutions to the giant gray rhino looming behind the social and political unrest that has been shaking the world. Technology could be one way to repair the strained citizen-government relationship. There’s nothing to debate – partly because of technology, the average citizen is much more informed about pretty much everything, including what his government is doing or even thinking of doing (thanks to certain presidential tweets). And again, partly because of technology, the average citizen is also more activist against government, easily leveraging social media to organize protest movements. This is one reason…
Author: Dr Maha Hosain Aziz
Dr Maha Hosain Aziz
Dr Maha Hosain Aziz specialises in political risk & prediction across varied industries. She is a professor teaching and researching this topic at New York University's Graduate School of Arts & Sciences; she is also teaching her specialty at e-learning education startup Pioneer Academics. She writes on political risk & prediction for the Huffington Post and The Observer. She consults with governments and corporates via crowdsourced geopolitical consultancy Wikistrat, Duco's intelligence network and a few others. And she is a cartoonist who created the award-winning political comic book, The Global Kid (all sales to education nonprofits).