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In an era of rapidly changing technology, it’s important to try to make sense of where we’re headed. 

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Is technology the key to mitigating climate change? Four experts explain

According to the United Nations, climate change is the defining issue of our time. Are …
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Digital Future Society: top 10 interviews

During 2019 and 2020 DFS has interviewed some of the world’s top experts on the …
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This is how advertising tech promotes hate and disinformation, by Nandini Jammi

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Interview with Mary L. Gray

The dark side of Artificial Intelligence

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Featured Content

Interview with Mary L. Gray

The dark side of Artificial Intelligence

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Q&A

Digital Trust  | 

This is how advertising tech promotes hate and disinformation, by Nandini Jammi
“Thousands of brands are inadvertently advertising on countless disinformation, hate and fraudulent efforts across the ...

Anna Schrimpf, from the Nobel Award winning J-PAL, on digital tools to mitigate poverty
"Evidence shows that M-PESA, a mobile money service, helped lift 194,000 mostly female-headed Kenyan households ...
Equitable Growth  | 

New approaches for international development by Alex Amouyel of Solve, a MIT initiative
"We will not achieve the Sustainable Development Goals if we only continue with existing solutions ...
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Big data to reduce poverty, by Kam Morshed of BRAC, the world’s biggest NGO
"The 'data revolution' which the business world has harnessed is now more needed than ever ...
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Can technology mitigate poverty? A Q&A with Raquel Bernedo, member of Red Cross
"Tech tools such as the Community Based Surveillance (CBS) allow community members to detect and ...
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Ravi Rajan, member of the Greenpeace Board of Directors, on the tech climate emergency
"Things like cobalt are really the blood diamonds of today."
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Videos


DFS Voices: Data Privacy in a Global Pandemic with Michael Kearns
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DFS Voices: The Digital Gender Gap with Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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Links

Digital Trust  | 

Automatic for the people? Experts predict how AI will transform the workplace
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Biased and wrong? Facial recognition tech in the dock
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Podcasts

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Coronavirus exposed the Digital Divide. Now it is the time to bridge it.
The global digital divide is undermining global equality. But it can be bridged through access ...
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Smart cities: deconstructing the surveillance state
 
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Articles

Equitable Growth  | 

Is technology the key to mitigating climate change? Four experts explain
According to the United Nations, climate change is the defining issue of our time. Are ...
Digital Trust  | 

Digital Future Society: top 10 interviews
During 2019 and 2020 DFS has interviewed some of the world’s top experts on the ...
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Interviews

Public innovation  | 

What is the future of innovation? An interview with Daria Tataj
"Governments are innovators, they are entrepreneurial and creative people who work with different stakeholders and ...

GovTech as a force multiplier: Interview with Lisa Witter
"Right now we have 18th century politics with 19th century institutions/government with 20th century technology ...
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Reports

Equitable growth  | 

Towards gender equality in digital welfare

Future Government. Design criteria for algorithmic systems
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Dealing with disinformation
Digital trust  | 

Building a trustworthy digital business: Recommendations for SMEs
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