Digital transformation AI, Robots, and Ethics in the Age of COVID-19 13 May 2020 Labor-replacing robots, for example, are taking over floor cleaning in grocery stores and sorting at recycling centers. AI is also fostering an increased reliance on chatbots for customer service at…
Digital transformation… A warning that Covid19 tracking is accelerating an unregulated digital transformation to an AI managed surveillance dystopia 13 May 202013 May 2020 An important warning from Naomi Klein about the momentum to have Covid19 accelerate the dominant myth of big tech as an inevitable and unregulated custodian of our lives: This is…
Economics Responding to Covid19 – How Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA Shapes the We – I balance 24 Apr 202013 May 2020 Some thought on the the We-I balance and Covid19 in the USA stirred by reading Individualism, and Collective Self Perception in the USA by Stephen Mennell. Understanding what Norbert Elias…
Digital transformation… Made in Africa: African digital labour in the value chains of AI 21 Apr 202013 May 2020 Mark Graham and Mohammad Amir Anwar conducted a five-year study (2014-19) in South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya, involving in-depth interviews and group discussions with more than 200 stakeholders—including…
Digital transformation Balancing public safety and privacy during COVID-19: The rise of mass surveillance – TechRepublic 15 Apr 202013 May 2020 Balancing public safety and privacy during COVID-19: The rise of mass surveillance As the coronavirus pandemic continues to take its toll on populations and economies around the globe, governments and…
Economics Illouz shows how Covid-19 highlights why we need the state 11 Apr 202011 Apr 2020 It is with no small irony that the world of finance, usually arrogant and so often unaccountable, was the first to collapse, showing that the continued and unfathomable circulation of…
Digital transformation Infosys president Ravi Kumar discusses the future of work in the digital age How Lifelong Learning Can Prepare You for the Future of Work – -new vocationalism -willingness and ability to learn in employment 3 Jul 201913 May 2020 Infosys president Ravi Kumar discusses the future of work in the digital age on Knowledge @ Wharton: How Lifelong Learning Can Prepare You for the Future of Work. Resonates with…
Economics How American women got stuck in the kitchen – Womenomics 14 Apr 2018 The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook shows the cost of having no federal paid leave programme Democracy in America Apr 13th 2018 by M.S.R. | WASHINGTON, DC IN 1986, “American…
Digital transformation… Workers at risk as robots set to replace 66m jobs, warns OECD 13 Apr 201813 May 2020 One in seven vulnerable employees in developed world least likely to be receiving help Larry Elliott Economics editor Tue 3 Apr 2018 17.08 BST Last modified on Wed 4 Apr 2018…
Digital transformation… We fear robots at work, but robotic jobs for humans are awful too 13 Apr 201813 May 2020 Even in workplaces where judgment used to count, people are increasingly treated like machines, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff Imagine being allowed to take as much paid holiday from…