New publication: The Little Book of Public Interest Technology
I just wrapped up writing a longer-form publication, maybe best described as a collection of short essays: Reflections on Public Interest Technology from someone with a governance /…
Tag: policy
We don’t need a Social Media ban, we need a ban on behavioral tracking
Germany is debating a social media ban for young people. However, the debate is woefully under-informed. Recently, German chancellor Friedrich Merz proclaimed (translated): “If kids today at the…
Video from our Open Knowledge Foundation expert roundtable
Open Knowledge Foundation kindly hosted an expert roundtable built on the report Dr. Henriette Litta and I co-wrote on Openness titled From Software to Society — Openness in…
Democracy needs a healthy internet. We don’t have one.
Here’s a story about how democracy, our very way of organizing our society and our lives, is under existential threat — because our public information sphere, our media environment,…
The link not clicked
Have you ever not clicked a link because you didn’t want to send a signal to an algorithm or the entity behind it? To avoid being targeted with…
It’s time to re-frame Tech & Society as a field
Here’s a hypothesis I’ve been mulling over as I’ve been absorbing the news these last few weeks and months: It’s time to re-frame Tech & Society as a…
AI makes Line Go Up, but…
AI has a tendency to make the Line Go Up. It also has a tendency to make Money Go Up. But that doesn’t mean that everyone’s happy, and…