By operationalizing the model set out in former tech executive Rainier Mallol’s paper “The Operative Republic,” the Ministry of Housing issued 85% more licenses in the first half of 2026

Dominican Republic, 16th Sep 2026 —The Dominican Republic recorded a 157% increase in private housing investment in the first half of 2026, driven in part by a rebuilt construction permitting process. Permits rose 85%, translating into RD$3,301.91 million (USD $5.6 billion) in additional construction investment. The gains follow reforms led by Rainier Mallol, then Director of Digital Transformation at the Ministry of Housing, who rebuilt permitting around the principles set out in his paper The Operative Republic: shared digital public infrastructure spanning identity, workflows, rules, registries, payments, and audit trails, rather than isolated digital procedures bolted onto existing bureaucracy. 

“We matched all of last year’s licensing output in seven months, with more technical rigor, since controls that used to depend on the reviewer are now enforced by the system,” Mallol said. The approach was adopted as the technology base of the Construction Permits Modernization Plan. The Central Bank of the Dominican Republic now ranks construction as the fastest-growing sector this year, up 14.9% in June, citing faster approval of new works among the drivers. In fact, construction has become the Dominican Republic’s fastest-growing sector as tech-driven permitting reform adds $5.6 billion.

The Minister of Housing has since been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, with Mallol serving as his senior advisor. He is now applying the same operating model to consular services and diplomatic case management. “The same digital public infrastructure we built in housing will be used in consular services and diplomatic relationship management,” Mallol said. “We are turning theory into practice, affecting GDP and public satisfaction with government. These ideas are replicable across departments.” 

Mallol’s background spans government modernization, public-sector data systems, COVID-19 technology response, digital infrastructure, and international public-service technology work, including emerging-technology ventures. He has held senior government technology roles, led 60-person and 28-person technology teams across the private and public sectors, and negotiated multi-million-dollar infrastructure budgets for nationwide software systems and cross-ministerial data integrations. He has spoken on technology policy in Japan, Malaysia, Panama, the U.S., the UAE, Chile, and the Dominican Republic, and holds a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University.

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Toogood Gold Corp. announced the definition of two priority exploration corridors at its Table Mountain Gold-Silver Project in Lincoln County, Nevada, and plans to advance the project toward a 3,000-meter maiden drill program. The company’s Phase 1 fieldwork identified the Widowmaker and Pacifico trends as priority targets within the project’s approximately 4-by-2-kilometer alteration footprint. Toogood holds an option to earn a 100% interest in the low-sulphidation epithermal system, which has never been drilled and is located roughly 9 kilometers south of Nevada King’s past-producing Atlanta Gold Mine.

The project was generated by Orogen Royalties through a regional exploration approach that included airborne spectral data — the same method behind identifying the Silicon project and later a 4+ Moz Au discovery by AngloGold Ashanti. Orogen’s senior management has called Table Mountain the best greenfields opportunity the company has generated.

Phase 1 fieldwork defined two priority corridors. The Widowmaker trend is an arcuate structure running more than 5 kilometers through the core of the system, with the Widowmaker vein exposed intermittently over more than 1 kilometer, with a train of epithermal vein float extending for an additional kilometer. About 500 meters east, the subparallel Pacifico trend adds more than 5 kilometers of cumulative mapped fault trace, and also hosts structurally controlled epithermal veins. Lattice-textured quartz is widespread across Table Mountain, in both veins and hydrothermal breccias — this texture is a signature of boiling, the process that drops gold and silver out of solution in systems of this type. The surface dataset includes >6,400 soil samples, 1,688 gravity stations, and 780 line-kilometers of drone magnetics, with analytical results from the current Phase 1 program still pending. Zonge International is running roughly 15 line-kilometers of CSAMT across both corridors this month, and SWCA Environmental Consultants is advancing Notice of Intent permitting for a 3,000-meter maiden drill program planned for late 2026 or early 2027.

The technical bench is deeper than the stage suggests. CEO Colin Smith is a geologist who came through the Discovery Group and SSR Mining; VP Exploration Lee Hess is a structural geologist specializing in Great Basin epithermal systems, also formerly of SSR Mining; and technical advisor Dr. Stuart Simmons, with more than 40 years on epithermal systems, concluded the surface exposures represent the upper levels of a well-preserved system with widespread evidence of boiling.

Investors should keep the stage in view. Table Mountain has no mineral resource and has never been drilled; analytical results from the current Phase 1 program remain pending, and Toogood holds the project under an earn-in option rather than outright ownership. Everything described above is surface work whose purpose is to decide where the first drill goes.

Nevada’s Gold Pipeline: From First Drilling to 100 Million Ounces

Gold is trading in the $4,300-$4,400 range, and investors following it want two things at once: exposure to the metal and a jurisdiction with an established mining industry and relatively predictable rules. That combination keeps pulling capital back to Nevada. The state hosts the largest gold-mining complex on earth, a bench of past-producing mines being brought back to life, and explorers advancing prospects that remain much earlier in development — like Toogood. The names investors talk about sit at different points on that curve, and the market prices each stage differently.

The Two That Set the Terms

Barrick Mining Corporation (NYSE: B) (TSX: ABX) and Newmont Corporation (NYSE: NEM) own Nevada Gold Mines, the joint venture spanning the Carlin, Cortez, Turquoise Ridge and Phoenix districts, at 61.5% and 38.5% respectively. On August 10, the two companies ended years of disputes with an agreement that folds Barrick’s Fourmile discovery and Newmont’s Fiberline and Mike developments into the joint venture, with Newmont paying Barrick $1.95 billion cash for the difference in contributed value. Barrick says the agreement expands the Nevada complex to nearly 100 million ounces. The settlement also cleared Newmont’s consent for Barrick’s planned IPO of its North American gold business, expected to complete by year-end.

Nearly every ounce in that complex started as somebody’s exploration target. Fourmile, the discovery Barrick has called one of the century’s greatest, came out of ground beside a mine that had been operating for decades. The rest of the Nevada pipeline is built on that pattern.

Three Juniors Further Along the Curve

Each of the three below has crossed a threshold Toogood hasn’t: drilling has defined a mineral resource. Their figures aren’t directly comparable — one reports measured-and-indicated oxide ounces, one reports inferred ounces only, and one reports gold-equivalent ounces that fold in silver at elevated metal prices.

Nevada King Gold Corp. (TSXV: NKG) (OTCQB: NKGFF) owns the 130-square-kilometer Atlanta Gold Mine project, a past-producing open pit with a 1.02-million-ounce measured-and-indicated oxide resource, immediately north of Toogood’s ground. It’s at the district-expansion stage: the company doubled its 2026 drill program to 40,000 meters, and by late August a fourth rig was testing new targets around the historical pit, including an undrilled 500-by-300-meter zone.

Scorpio Gold Corp. (NASDAQ: SGLD) (TSX-V: SGLD) consolidated the Manhattan District in Nye County, about 20 kilometers south of Kinross’s (NYSE: KGC) (TSX: K) Round Mountain mine, combining its Goldwedge mine and mill with four past-producing pits acquired from Kinross in 2021. It’s at the maiden-resource stage: an estimate effective June 2025 holds 740,000 inferred ounces at 1.26 g/t gold, and a 32,585-meter Phase Two program has tested well beyond the resource pit shell, with recent results including 3.02 g/t gold over 48.92 meters.

Lahontan Gold Corp. (TSX-V: LG) (OTCQB: LGCXF) is at the restart-permitting stage. Its Santa Fe Mine in Mineral County produced roughly 359,000 ounces of gold and 702,000 ounces of silver by heap leaching between 1988 and 1995. An updated resource effective August 13, 2026 carries 1,195,000 gold-equivalent ounces indicated and 1,190,000 inferred, calculated at $3,200 gold and $40 silver. A revised preliminary economic assessment is targeted for September, permitting is underway, and the company is targeting 2027 for construction.

Nevada King, Scorpio and Lahontan are each several years and tens of thousands of drill meters past the point Toogood is at now, and the two majors are decades past it. Whether Toogood follows a similar path depends first on what the maiden program finds. For now, the company is doing the groundwork next door to one of the most active drill programs in the state, in a jurisdiction where successful exploration has repeatedly attracted much larger pools of capital, which is enough to warrant some attention.

About Toogood Gold Corp.

Toogood Gold Corp. is a Canadian exploration company focused on the discovery and advancement of high-grade gold systems in tier-one mining jurisdictions. The Company has two core areas of focus: the Table Mountain Project in Nevada, where the Company has an option to earn a 100% interest in a large, undrilled low-sulphidation epithermal system with extensive surface alteration and multiple mineralized vein exposures; and the district-scale Toogood Gold Project in Newfoundland, where the Company has an option to earn a 100% interest in a 164 km² land package covering a highly underexplored gold district with multiple target areas and demonstrated gold prospectivity.

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Former Sony, Rakuten, KPMG, and McKinsey executive Masayuki Chatani explores how AI is reshaping leadership in his new book.

Tokyo, Japan, 16th Sep 2026 – Masayuki Chatani was involved in the development of successive PlayStation platforms at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment), before holding senior leadership positions at companies including Rakuten, KPMG, and McKinsey.

Today, Chatani practices what he calls the “Solo CEO with AI” model, an approach in which a single entrepreneur leverages multiple AI systems as a virtual team. Grounded in more than 30 years of experience at the forefront of Japan’s technology industry, his new book examines how the rise of AI is transforming leadership and presents a vision for the future of technology leaders.

Following “Behind the Scenes at PlayStation: Former CTO Talks about 16 Years of Creation” and “A Compass for Leaders who Create the Future” (Trilogy – Survival Strategy, Practical Implementation, Future Outlook), this book serves as a guide for current and future leaders navigating a rapidly changing technological landscape.

Key Points of the Book

Cover of the New Book

1. AI may first transform the role of the “leader,” not the frontline worker

Before practical tasks such as writing code or preparing documents, the core responsibilities of leaders—including gathering information, evaluating options, making decisions, and developing strategies—are increasingly becoming areas where AI demonstrates strong capabilities.

Having observed the evolution of technology for more than 30 years, Chatani directly addresses this uncomfortable paradox: the very skills traditionally associated with leadership may be among the areas most affected by AI.

2. The author is not a commentator, but a practitioner

After leaving his position as head of Build by McKinsey Japan, Chatani has been putting the “Solo CEO with AI” model into practice, using multiple AI systems as part of his daily operations.

This book is not only an analysis of AI and leadership but also a record of practical knowledge gained through his own experience as an AI solopreneur.

3. From managing people to orchestrating AI: A new measure of leadership

Drawing on leadership experience ranging from the launch of PlayStation to management roles at global professional services firms, the book explores how leadership may shift from managing large organizations to effectively orchestrating AI systems.

It offers a new perspective for technology leaders navigating the changing relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.

4. Answering the question: “What remains?”

Through the concept of “Science, Technology, and Business: Integrated Thinking,” the book reframes AI not as a threat, but as a “creative partner.”

It presents a new vision of leadership beyond traditional definitions of technology leadership, while exploring what responsibilities and values will remain in an era where AI increasingly participates in analysis, decision-making, and creation.

Background: Why Reconsider “Tech Leaders” Now?

With the rise of generative AI, discussions about “AI taking people’s jobs” have traditionally focused on frontline professionals. However, many core responsibilities of leaders—including collecting information, comparing options, and making decisions—are increasingly becoming areas where generative AI can provide significant support.

The era when leading a large organization was considered the defining characteristic of leadership is giving way to an era of the “Solo CEO with AI,” or AI solopreneur, where an individual entrepreneur can leverage multiple AI systems as a virtual team.

The starting point of this book is the question of what aspects of leadership may disappear, and what essential qualities will remain.

This perspective is developed around the concept of “Science, Technology, and Business: Integrated Thinking.” Regarding the “Solo CEO with AI” (AI solopreneur) concept, Chatani discussed its emergence in a 2021 Forbes JAPAN web column. Drawing on his own experience as an AI solopreneur, he explores its background, practical implementation, and future possibilities.

The concept points toward a new working model in which a solo entrepreneur collaborates with multiple AI systems as a virtual team.

Book Overview

Title:
“Tech Leaders in the Age of AI – The Fading Tech Leaders”

Author:
Masayuki Chatani

Structure:
10 chapters (312 pages; paperback and hardcover editions)

Publication Date:
August 2026

Publisher:
Office Chatani Publishing

Price:
Hardcover: GBP 28.00
Paperback: GBP 20.00
eBook: GBP 8.00

Distribution:
Available through Amazon stores in 17 countries, including UK.

Prices are individually set for each country’s store.

ASIN:
B0HHDGGWY5 (Paperback edition)

Available on Amazon:

https://amzn.eu/d/0e9uWkmx (UK Amazon)

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Disappearing Tech Leaders

Chapter 1: Imagination and Daydreaming—The Keys to Surviving an Era of Discontinuity

Chapter 2: Tech Leaders Must Be Able to Unite the “Otaku”

Chapter 3: Can AI Be Creative?

Chapter 4: What Does “Learning” Mean in the Age of AI?

Chapter 5: AI “Does Not Die.” That Is Why It Cannot Possess Wisdom

Chapter 6: Become the Strongest “Homo Ludens”

Chapter 7: Young Professionals Should Use the Number of Attempts as Their Weapon; Veterans Should Use Trust

Chapter 8: The OS of Society Is Being Rewritten—The Polarization Between “Mega-Corporations” and “Solo Entrepreneurs”

Chapter 9: The Real Reason GAFAM Hasn’t Emerged from Japan

Chapter 10: Those Who Take Responsibility for an Unfinished Future

In Closing: A Future Where, 30 Years From Now, We Can Say, “That Was the Lowest Point”

Author’s Comment

This book follows “The Age of Creators” and the trilogy for future leaders, “A Compass for Leaders who Create the Future” (Survival Strategy, Practical Implementation, and Future Outlook).

Masayuki Chatani’s Business Books

Drawing on the experiences and knowledge accumulated throughout my career while looking toward the future, this book conveys a message of hope and aspiration for those who will create value in society in the years ahead.

It has been developed as a guide for addressing the uncertainty that anyone may experience in the age of AI and offers perspectives on how individuals can continue creating value in a rapidly changing world.

Author Profile – Masayuki Chatani

Masayuki Chatani was involved in the development of successive PlayStation platforms at Sony Computer Entertainment (now Sony Interactive Entertainment), where he served as CTO.

He subsequently held senior positions including Executive Officer at Rakuten, CEO of KPMG Ignition Tokyo, Chief Digital Officer (CDO) of KPMG Japan, and head of Build by McKinsey Japan within McKinsey’s digital team.

He is currently Representative Director and CEO of Office Chatani Co., Ltd., supporting the growth and success of numerous companies.

As a writer, he contributes an ongoing column as an official columnist for Forbes JAPAN. He is also active as a calligrapher under the name “KouTetsu Chatani.”

KouTetsu Chatani’s Calligraphy Books

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