Profile
A prophet provocateur, schooled in freedom.
Fazal Ali disrupts the status quo to reveal uncomfortable truths. Work that unsettles, and forces Latin America and the Caribbean to confront its inheritance of inherited inequality and intergenerational immobility.
About
A thinker, consultant, academic and technical expert exploring how AI is shaping the future of innovation, through the lens of development as freedom, drawing upon Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom and John Rawls' A Theory of Justice.
Background
A Commonwealth Scholarship winner who read for his doctorate at the University of Cambridge as a PhD candidate. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, C. W. R. D. Moseley and Lord Martin Rees shaped his thinking.
Contact
He can be reached at fazalalitsc@gmail.com.
What the work explores
Screen economies, the Law of AI, and policy intent - through the lens of freedom.
A working index of the concerns that move across his essays and consultancies.
- Screen economies
- The Law of AI & policy intent
- Epistemic justice
- Algorithmic fairness
- Data embassies
- National data libraries
- Cybersecurity of critical infrastructure
- Low-orbit satellite connectivity
- AI-driven surveillance
- Technological sovereignty
- Data architectures
- Data fabric of state enterprises
- Autonomous creative economies
- Prosperity engines & specialised education
- Intelligent failure
- Intellectual property of AI
- Democratic drift
- Economic geography of AI
- Electronic personhood for AI
"Standing on the shoulders of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom and John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Omeros AI builds a body of work that adds to the critical theory on AI, written from the West Indies."
Fazal Ali · Omeros AI
Professional background
Institutional work.
UWI · MPhil
Completed his Masters in Philosophy at the University of the West Indies.
Cambridge
Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Hughes Hall. Influenced there by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, C. W. R. D. Moseley, and Lord Martin Rees.
UWI · ICT
Planned and organised the international conference launching The Institute of Critical Thinking at the University of the West Indies, mirroring the innovation and entrepreneurship model of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
UWI · Evening University
Head of Evening University at The UWI, widening pathways into higher education for working adults across the Caribbean.
UCSIS
Secretary to the University Consortium of Small Island States (UCSIS) at the UWI Office of Graduate Studies and Research, a Kofi Annan mandate uniting the universities of Malta, the South Pacific, the US Virgin Islands, the West Indies, and Mauritius into a global capacity-building team for SIDS.
Lok Jack GSB
Programme Director of the DBA programme at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, UWI.
UTT
Provost of the University of Trinidad and Tobago; established the UTT Aviation Campus and served as acting President.
UNESCO
Member of the UNESCO Memory of the World team in Trinidad and Tobago.
TSC
Chairman of the Teaching Service Commission of Trinidad and Tobago, a statutory body of the State.
NIHERST
President of the National Institute of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, the country's lead body for STEM popularisation and applied research.
IDB
External services consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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