by Marta | Sep 29, 2020 | Article
On Monday, I had the pleasure to moderate the opening panel of the NGI Summit (full video here). It was a roundtable about the data economy with Ingrid Schneider (Professor of Political Science at the University of Hamburg), Sylvie Delacroix (Professor in Law and...
by Marta | Sep 16, 2020 | Article
The other day I went down a rabbit hole about Wikipedia’s real-world impact. The conversation was originally around women’s presence on Wikipedia and what could be done to increase it, since like it or not, Wikipedia is a fundamental source of information, so...
by Marta | Sep 14, 2020 | Article
Business is business, but being remembered as the company which helped “the last dictator of Europe” is not the most desirable marketing material. That’s what is happening for the operations of Sandvine in Belarus. Sandvine, an American company,...
by Marta | Sep 8, 2020 | Article
Hundreds of A-level students in the UK protested on August 16 in Parliament Square and outside the Department for Education against the downgrading of exam results. Their “Fuck the algorithm” motto was directed against the ADMS that downgraded the 35.6% of...
by Marta | Sep 2, 2020 | Article
Clear Channel is bringing its smart billboards to Europe (in the US they are active since 2016). They use anonymised mobile phone data to give advertisers better insights on where to place street billboards and follow up on consumer behaviour. The company claims they...
by Marta | Sep 1, 2020 | Article
It may not have followed the path of a well designed corporate strategy, but undoubtedly Covid-19 has been a significant push for remote work. Big tech too, of course, had to rush towards remote operation mode. Within the industry, we see two different takes on the...
