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Richard Veryard In my writings on technology ethics, riffing on the fact that so many cool technologies are presented as the Holy Grail of something or other, I have frequently invoked the mediaeval question that Parsifal failed to ask: Whom does the Grail Serve?Chatb…
In my writings on technology ethics, riffing on the fact that so many cool technologies are presented as the Holy Grail of something or other, I have frequently invoked the mediaeval question that Parsifal failed to ask: Whom does the Grail Serve?Chatb…
How many pillars (or components or building blocks) does your data strategy need? I found lots of different answers, from random bloggers to the UK Government.3An anonymous blogger who writes under the pen-name Beautiful Data identifies three pillars o…
An interesting talk by Professor Hélène @Landemore at @TORCHOxford yesterday, exploring the possibility that some forms of artificial intelligence might assist democracy. I haven’t yet read her latest book, which is on Open Democracy.There are various …
#FollowingTheScience As politicians around the world struggle to contain and master the Covid-19 pandemic, the complex role of science in guiding decision and policy has been brought into view. Not only the potential tension between science and policy,…
In his 2013 article on Achieving Operational Excellence, Andrew Spanyi quotes an unnamed CIO saying operational excellence is in our DNA. Spanyi goes on to criticize this CIO’s version of operational excellence, which was based on limited and inadequat…
If your #datastrategy involves collecting and harvesting more data, then it makes sense to check this requirement at an early stage of a new project or other initiative, rather than adding data collection as an afterthought.For requirements such as sec…
Cybernetics helps us understand dynamic systems that are driven by a particular type of data. Here are some examples:Many economists see markets as essentially driven by price data. On the Internet (especially social media) we can see systems that are …
Some good down-to-earth points from #ASPC20 @airpowerassn ‘s Air and Space Power Conference earlier this month. Although the material was aimed at a defence audience, much of the discussion is equally relevant to civilian and commercial organizations i…
@BCSDMSG and @DAMAUK ran an online conference last month, entitled Delivering Value Through Data. Videos are now available on YouTube.The conference opened with a very interesting presentation by Peter Thomas (Prudential Regulation Authority, part of t…
In a May 2020 essay, @NaomiAKlein explains how Silicon Valley is exploiting the COVID19 crisis as an opportunity to reframe a long-standing vison of an app-driven, gig-fueled future. Until recently, Klein notes, this vision was being sold to us in the …
ImageNet is a large crowd-sourced database of coded images, widely used for machine learning. This database can be traced to an idea articulated by Fei-Fei Li in 2006: We’re going to map out the entire world of objects. In a blogpost on the Limitations…