MIT’s Technology Review issued its annual technology trends for 2020. The 10 trends it is foreseeing are: Unhackable internet Hyper-personalized medicine Digital money Anti-aging drugs AI-discovered molecules Satellite mega-constellations Quantum supremacy Tiny AI Differential privacy Climate change attribution Meanwhile Forbes provideed its own list of trends: AI-as-a-service 5G data networks Autonomous Driving Personalized and predictive…
Access Now is organizing its 9th conference of Rights Con. The conference convenes business leaders, policy makers, general counsels, government representatives, technologists, academics, journalists, and human rights defenders from around the world to tackle pressing issues at the intersection of human rights and technology. In provocative plenaries, hands-on workshops, intimate roundtables, private meetings, and lively…
Access Now presented the European Human Rights Agenda for the Digital Age, detailing objectives and recommendations in the areas of data protection, content governance, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and connectivity. Access Now is also calling on EU lawmakers to put human rights at the center of upcoming digital policies, making recommendations in the following four main areas: Protect…
Given the problems that may arise in the implementation of any AI-based technology, it has come to the international community’s attention that this implementation is closely connected to human rights. Implementation of AI without oversight allows for human rights violations, some of which are egregious. “Schools refer to these technologies as ‘student safety’ measures, but…
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is, “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. The Generation Equality campaign is bringing together people of every gender, age, ethnicity, race, religion and country, to drive actions that will create the gender-equal world we all deserve. Together, we want to mobilize to end gender-based violence; we are calling for…
World IA Day Boston (WIAD 2020) is an annual, world-wide, one-day conference celebrating information architecture. This year it was organized at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, on Feb 22, and was attended by a gathering of Boston’s IA, UX, and design community. Marlyn Tadros was one of the speakers with a session entitled From Dorothy to Kramer:…
All UN parallel events have been cancelled on account of the covid19 outbreak. At the invitation of the Center for Social Research, Marlyn Tadros, Executive Director of Virtual Activism and Associate Professor at SNHU, will be speaking at the Policy Dialogue on Prevention and Response to Online Human Rights Violations Against Women during the UN CSW64. This…
The June 2019 the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation issued its report, The Age of Digital Interdependence, which, among other things, makes a series of recommendations related to human rights and human agency. The report states that “We urgently need to lay the foundations of an inclusive digital economy and society for all. We need…
