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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Our new book on how AI will affect the future of human relations. From #machine politics, AI #doctors, #care robot, AI #teachers , virtual #anchors, #sex robots lnkd.in/gEtK-bc7 #Springer

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I’m excited to share that our latest paper — AI as a Framework for Public Service Innovation — has just been published in Public Money & Management (IF 2023: 2.2, Q2, SSCI) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Debate: AI as a framework for public service innovation

Published in Public Money & Management (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Young people in droves are leaving the country. The #kaburajadulu is a highly phenomenal in Indonesia. But what is the policy implication? One argument is for the need to have “talent policy” to entice talents and help them thrive x.com/jakpost/stat...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Back to the classics and the first computational social scientist: Herbert Simon. A polymath whose thoughts has shaped much of my thinking since reading his work back in the PhD classes

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Publication alert. AI can be seen as an extension of the “digital transformation”. We reviewed articles published on AI in PA journals in the past decade using topic modeling (a form of machine learning) and identified key topics and trends. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Algorithms for a new season? Mapping a decade of research on the artificial intelligence-driven digital transformation of public administration

This article reviews a decade (2013–2023) of scholarly discourse to deepen our understanding of the AI-driven digital transformation of public administration (PA). Structural topic modelling and ma...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I am excited that our book “Topics in Public Administration”, where we showcase how to do topic modeling (a form of machine learning) and corpus linguistics on PA literature, has been published. Great collab with Richard Walker and Jiasheng Zhang www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

It is a sad to hear the passing of Prof Christopher Hood, who made popular the concept of “new public management”. We are grateful to have done a review of his work back in 2019, showing how the ideas diffused. A great scholar leaves a legacy way into time. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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How Does A Seminal Article in Public Administration Diffuse and Influence the Field? Bibliometric Methods and the Case of Hood's “A Public Management For All Seasons?”

Bibliographic methods offer an advanced microscope-like tool to probe specific fields of inquiry. In this article, we use these methodological tools to demonstrate how a seminal article diffused an...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Radicalists say “it’s impossible to mix social goals and profit”. It’s like mixing water and fire. Social enterprise is just invented just for that. Project Dignity, hiring 60% ratio of disabled in its resto chain, is proving them wrong. sgvisionaries.com/2025/01/05/m...

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Meet Seng Choon: Visionary Behind Project Dignity, Empowering Less-Abled Lives Through Love and Training

Meet Seng Choon, the visionary behind Project Dignity – an inspiring entrepreneur on a mission to reshape the employment landscape for people with disabilities. With a firm belief that business can…

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

What can save us from AI? We argue that “entrepreneurialism” will. And that hinges on skills such as problematization, organizing, and compassion. open.substack.com/pub/yantocha...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

“CanChatGPT do data science” was an intriguing question. We drilled into this in 2023. And now it forms a new pedagogical strategy in courses that I teach. From “creating dataset”, “producing codes” to test some models, to understanding its limits as a way of knowing. aibusiness.com/nlp/can-chat...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

May this new year (2025) bring you with plenty of sparks, brightness, and enlightenment in all things that matter. Be like a light that plays its role among a symphony of other lights in the world. 🧶🍄🌕💥🏵️🎯

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Digital public goods are taking shape and gaining acceptance, from CBDC, metaverse, crypto, to NFT (non fungible tokens). We offer a theoretical analysis of the boom and bust (up to 2022/2023) of NFT. With tips on how to make digital public good working for all. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

No matter how good a paper is — even those published in top tier journals - they remain a “draft” (in progress). Forget perfection. It’s still an “original draft”, “pure draft”, or “draft one version number 470”. Best discussed over a pitcher of super chill/dry Sapporo, Tsingtao or Heinecken.

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Many elderly don’t have proper food. Who cares? One man — never calls himself a “social entrepreneur” — whips up a US$3, 3-dish menu for them. This pricing is unthinkable. A sacrifice for less profit, with a big heart to provide hundreds of lives. 0:00 to 9.49 minute. youtu.be/M5pRXR03TYU?...

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中国香港一家廉价餐厅，靠24块钱的3菜1汤养活了1000位贫困老人，连续21年不涨价，凭借一张饭票家喻户晓！

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

AI optimists or pessimists? Techno-optimism vs pessimism is too simplistic a way to classify attitudes toward AI. A more nuanced view could help, incl teasing out who benefit more or less (with differing level of skills, ways of using AI etc). Tech-possibilism? open.substack.com/pub/yantocha...

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How to Win in the AI-Dominated World

Be Like the One-Eyed Man in the Age of Discovery

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Yanto Chandra @yantochandra.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Creative citizens can change policies. But how? This blog post, grounded in a study published in Public Management Review, discusses the details. open.substack.com/pub/yantocha...

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Creative Citizens Can Change Policies

Social entrepreneurs tackle public problems by working outside of or working with government while criticizing policy

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