Explore this blog via ChatGPT
As a little experiment, I’ve set up a custom AI agent / GPT chatbot for this website, appropriately named The Waving Cat Explorer. The idea is that it…
Category: Research
The state of election disinformation as we head into 2024
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) recently released this report (“Seismic Shifts“, PDF) about the state of counter election disinformation initiatives in the US, and the trust…
Tech Policy: Time to Level Up
Tech policy and regulation is notoriously tricky. This is an area that has many complex technological aspects to contend with, that is inherently international (not always totally, but…
Public Interest Independent Research Labs
Tom Critchlow pulled together some approaches for how to think about funding independent research labs. In his post he gathers inputs from a range of smart people, many…
Research Project: Helping public & third sector better understand the societal impact of tech
I’m working on an independent project with the goal to empower public & third sector decision-makers to make better informed decisions about the societal role and impact of…
Fellowships are the way forward
The role and importance of fellowships is going to grow vastly over the next few years. Why? More and more highly relevant research, especially around societal issues that…
Innovation Rankings
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:10. So Germany was…