By Anil Nair, Founder, ThinkStreet

Diella is Albania’s new cabinet minister in charge of public procurement, appointed by PM Edi Rama. This decision goes against the Albanian constitution which states that government ministers must be mentally competent citizens, aged at least 18 years of age. Because Diella is an artificial intelligence (AI) bot, with a name that sounds like a pop star and means “sun” in Albanian.

The prime minister is into his fourth term and this novelty is a global first, intended to ensure public tenders in Albania will be 100% free of corruption. Interestingly, Diella has prior experience—having reportedly helped a million applications on the e-Albania platform, processed 36,000 digital documents, and delivered about 1,000 types of services to citizens since Janu

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