Tag Archives: innovation
The trolley problem problem
*this post was inspired by a conference workshop on education and responsible data science, run by the Digital Society initiative, a collective of Dutch universities working together to shape the relationship between data science and society.* A rash of studies have come out recently about the trolley problem. This is the famous philosphical conundrum where […]
My new project: Data Justice
I’ve had some good news: I heard this summer that I am going to receive an ERC grant from the European Research Council. This means I get to do five years’ work on the idea of data justice (the link leads to a paper that explains in more detail what this might be). There are […]
Boiling whales and burning forests: If data is the new oil, what’s our alternative energy plan?
Several times over the last year, researchers have written about the notion of data justice (Heeks and Renken here, Johnson here, and Dencik, Hintz and Cable here). They use this terminology to bring together important concerns about the way that data, and big data in particular, are affecting society, politics and development. These authors all […]
Group Privacy: the next generation of privacy problems
Data protection doesn’t engage with the collective level – is it time for change?
Against innovation (mostly)
(This post discusses ideas from a paper that’s currently under review. You can read it here.) Amartya Sen gave a talk today in Amsterdam. For those who don’t know him, he is the originator of the Capability approach to development (where development is measured by people’s capacity to fulfill their potential in things as diverse […]
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