Working with Civitates
A quick transparency update: I’m happy to share that I’ve recently started working with Civitates, a philanthropic initiative for democracy and solidarity in Europe. In Civitates’ own words:…
Tag: tech
Tech at the Center
In recent conversations, we repeatedly touched on the point that in some of the biggest societal challenges — specifically ongoing threats to democracy — tech appears to be…
Working with Sovereign Tech Fund
After a brief engagement last year for a strategy process, I’m excited to be working more intensely with Sovereign Tech Fund, a publicly funded program to strengthen public…
The Ryanair Test for Technology
A classic lens to prob the potential impact of a new technology is to explore that technology from adversarial points of view: What might a criminal do with…
New Report: “Smart Cities: A Key to a Progressive Europe”
I’m happy to share that a report is out today that I had the honor and pleasure to co-author. It’s published jointly by the Foundation for European Progressive…
A list of resources for ethical, responsible, and public interest tech development
For an upcoming day of teaching I started compiling a list of resources relevant for the ethical, responsible development of tech, especially public interest tech. This list is…
“The world doesn’t know where it wants to go”
Image: Compass by Valentin Antonucci (Unsplash) One of the joys of my working at the intersection of emerging tech and its impact is that I get to discuss…