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BIG Data and Ethics was held a few weeks ago in the new premises of the DigitYser, downtown Brussels. It was a great Meetup, with interesting speakers and an interested public đ Itâs always a pleasure when the public can contribute and presentations raise great discussions, and it is more important here on this gathering Read More …
We are approaching the end of the year. For most of us this is the time to Last Year’s introspection and New Yearâs big resolutionsâŚ(and if you donât usually do it I recommend it to you: time flies (!) and taking the wheel of your life brings you a lovely sense of realisation đ Have you Read More …
Due to last events in Belgium, the terrorist bomb attacks in Zaventem and Brussels, I couldnât but remember the article from Bloomberg Businessweek talking about pre-crime: âChina Tries Its Hand at Pre-Crimeâ. They refer us to the film Minority Report, with Tom Cruise, that takes place in a future society where three mutants foresee all Read More …
Mid-February, Francesca Bria from Nesta presented the final study report on Digital Social Innovation (#DigitalSI)Â As NESTA puts it: This report coordinated by Nesta and commissioned by the European Commission, DG CONNECT is the first systematic network analysis of the emerging digital social innovation (DSI) ecosystem in Europe The study began 18 months ago with Read More …
The European Parliament is asking to âunbundling search engines from other commercial servicesâ, issuing a message as in the ‘Free Willy’ movie, or any other cause you may be for đ The Economist has done its first page article around it: ‘Should governments break up digital monopolies?’, Nov. 29th. 2014. Is this issue so important? Read More …
Innovation is creating new materials, new sensors each time smaller, cheaper, more flexible, more powerful and at the same time less power-consuming. It allows to put them everywhere: we are surrounded with devices crowded with those sensors as our phones with cameras, gyroscopes and gps. And all those measurements captured by the sensors are being Read More …
Last week I had the pleasure to hear Nicole Dewandre talk about Hyperconnectivity at the Rotary club of Waterloo. Â Nicole works as advisor for societal issues for the Director General of the DG CONNECT at the European Commission. Her presentation was about the impact hyperconnectivity has on our human condition from a philosophical point of Read More …
A few days ago I went to Italy, and look what caught my eyes in the airport coming back: So I cannot but get into the ânew deal on dataâ for personal data protection of Alex Pentland that I mentioned on the previous post đ His idea is to treat personal data as an asset, Read More …
I recently got the new issue from Scientific American (October 2013), and in the front page was announced the article âThe Data-Driven Societyâ by Alex Pentland. Â I just had to read it đ He co-leads the World Economic Forum on Big Data and Personal Data initiatives. Â He was talking about all the digital bread crumbs Read More …
A television screen shows former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden during a news bulletin at a cafe at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport June 26, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin As we already discussed on my Big Data presentations,  being able to analyse the amount of data that traces all our actions and movements is a Read More …