Jacques Bus received his PhD in Science and Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. He worked as a researcher for 12 years and subsequently as research program manager for 5 years at CWI/NWO in Amsterdam (NL).
From 1988 he worked at the European Commission in leading positions in various parts of the Research programmes ESPRIT and ICT, including IT infrastructure, program management, software engineering and since 2004 in trust and security. He has been strongly involved in the establishment of the Security Theme in FP7, the EC Research funding programme.
Since 2010 he works as an independent advisor on Trust, Security, Privacy and Identity in the digital environment. He has been 3 years business director of the Dutch Privacy and Identity Lab (www.pilab.nl) He is co-founder and Secretary General of Digital Enlightenment Forum.
Democracy is under constant threat and permanent construction. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now in the autumn of 2020 dominating how we all live our lives - and how political leaders are making decisions at the local, national and global level. As the pandemic remains a reality, and as upcoming US elections in November challenge the democratic principles, we consider it the right time to analyse the situation and draw lessons.
Keynote speaker :Martin Wolf (FT): Democracy will fail if we do not think like citizens.
Speakers
- Tom Gerald Daly (DEM-DEC): Democracy and COVID Worldwide: Digital Threats and Solutions - Nuria Oliver (DataPop Alliance): Lessons learned about participation, privacy and contact tracing - Seda F. Gürses (TU Delft): Privacy by design as Infrastructural Power - Wieslaw Bartkowski (SWPS Univ): Towards healthy digital technology
Democracy has been under constant threat, also before the COVID-19 pandemic. But the responses to the pandemic have brought additional and new challenges concerning...
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