Meera Nair
Drawing from her diverse experience in journalism, media marketing, and digital advertising, Meera is proficient in crafting engaging tech narratives. As a trusted voice in the tech landscape and a published author, she shares insightful perspectives on the latest IT trends and workplace dynamics in Digital Digest.
Articles by Meera Nair
Integrating AI in Creative Workflow as Infrastructure
For years, the relationship between creative agencies and artificial intelligence was defined by “the prompt.” Designers used Midjourney to generate mood boards. Copywriters used ChatGPT to cure writer’s block. But as we move through 2026, a fundamental shift has occurred.…
Pax Silica and the New Tech Divide: Inside the Emerging Semiconductor Cold War
The global technology sector is currently undergoing its most radical transformation since the dawn of the internet. The ongoing U.S.-Iran conflict and the high-stakes postponement of the Trump-Xi Beijing Summit are not merely political headlines. They are the primary architects of…
Productivity is Broken: Why More Tools Aren’t Making Work Easier
In the modern tech environment, the word “productivity” has become a bit of a ghost, something we keep chasing with more software, only to find it drifting further away. Despite a decade of “digital transformation,” the average knowledge worker is now…
Blooket and the Gamified Classroom: Mastery or Mechanics?
If you walk into a middle school classroom today, you won’t hear the scratching of pencils or the hum of a projector. Instead, you’ll likely hear a roar of excitement that sounds more like an esports arena. At the centre of this chaos is Blooket, a platform that…
Marie Doce on Building Grounded AI Beyond the Tech Bubble
In conversation with Marie Doce, charting a new course with Grounded AI, rooted in place, purpose, and principle, after building at the heart of the generative AI surge. Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial…
Enforceable AI Governance 2026: From Ethics to Infrastructure
Enforceable AI Governance is the technical practice of embedding regulatory policies, such as the EU AI Act and NIST AI RMF 2.0, directly into the AI lifecycle via automated guardrails, Governance-as-Code (GaC), and real-time monitoring. It replaces manual oversight with…
Algorithm Accountability: Who Owns the AI Governance Crisis?
It’s a classic Tuesday morning in the city. Your firm has just deployed a state-of-the-art Large Language Model (LLM) to automate customer triage. By Wednesday, the bot is inadvertently hallucinating a “100% refund policy” for every disgruntled customer in Leeds. The board wants heads…
Google Scholar: The Quiet Engine Behind Research Authority
Most people think Google shapes the web. But Google Scholar shapes what counts as knowledge. If the standard Google search engine is the world’s digital front door, Google Scholar is the restricted-access basement where the blueprints for reality are kept. …
In Conversation with Emsie Erastus on AI Governance and Digital Rights
Emsie Erastus, Digital Rights Advocate and Head of African Voices at Women in AI Ethics™ (WAEI+), discusses policy reform, tech justice, and building accountable AI beyond traditional power centres. Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are the…
AI Shaming: The Quiet Stigma of Using AI at Work
Walk into almost any tech team today, and you will hear the same quiet admission sooner or later: “I asked AI to help with it.” Sometimes it is a developer debugging a piece of code or a researcher structuring a draft.…
Elisabetta Biasin on Building Guardrails for AI in Healthcare
In Conversation with Elisabetta Biasin, Doctoral Researcher at the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) Women Building the Guardrails of AI: Behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are the people asking the difficult questions about responsibility,…
MacBook Neo Steals Apple’s Hardware Week Spotlight
Apple had a busy week. Between March 3 and March 5, the company quietly dropped six different hardware announcements, no big keynote, no dramatic stage reveal, just a steady stream of updates landing in Apple’s newsroom. First came a new iPhone. Then…