Image courtesy: https://www.project-sherpa.eu/understanding-ethics-and-human-rights-in-smart-information-systems/ Imagine a day in today’s world without the usage of google search engine… doctor diagnosing critically ill patients without any machines… stuck on a road and you don’t have navigation map app; how easy or difficult your life would …
Freedom of expression, Transparency and Accountability On SEPTEMBER 23, 2020, the press reports, that YouTube deleted accounts of the ‘Querdenker’ (Lateral Thinkers). With the onset of the pandemic ‘Querdenken’ had been spreading conspiracy myths about Covid-19 by accusing the media and politicians of lying about …
Part 02 of the learning curve about Big Data for dummys (like myself) How can algorithms, big data and AI cause biases and unfairness? Data reflects existing biases, unbalanced classes in training data, data that doesn’t capture the right value, data that …
Part 01 of the learning curve about Big Data for dummys (like myself) Strawberry Pop Tarts and Big Data – Why does it matter for development? In this blog, I want to explore my own learning in a simple, more fun and …
Cutting edge solutions are what ultimately will lead to effective mitigations for public health crises like that of COVID-19. Technology is the forefront of the cutting edge. Contact tracing will be vital to not only mitigating the spread of COVID-19, but for …
How private is your privacy – you are surveilled! image courtesy: Unsplash Working in the office, doing your house chores, walking with your pet outside or picking up our kids from the school; imagine being watched and spied at every …
Scavenging the social media for content, events, news and insights is what we do every day. Social media is the place where people are talking and exchanging opinions about content and companies and organizations are largely eavesdropping by monitoring and listening to …
Hi everyone, welcome to the first week of this blog. In this short post I am going to talk about how big data can be used to reduce human suffering by predicting the disaster’s trends. Unfortunately, people rarely thinking about big data …
‘Targeting the Target Group’ is still very often used in development speech, when it comes to thinking about how we are communicating with people. Emerging psychological research has told us that something as simple as a single metaphor (eg. target) can have …
