Jacques Bus

We received an invitation from the editors of a new book about:

 Digital Innovation and Societal Change – Implications for Production, Work and Organisation

See an outline and further information on the book below.

You are invited to contribute one of different types of papers, such as critical reviews, empirical studies and cases, and project results. A detailed list of suggested topics is part of the attached book outline.

In the context of its activities in its strategic innovation area: Digital industry, EIT Digital decided to launch a study focusing on the main policy challenges accompanying the digital transformation of the European industry. The study followed a scenario-based approach to structure and assess the potential impacts of policy measures with a main focus on taxation and labor market regulation.
Digital Enlightenment Forum was contracted to execute the study under the guidance of EIT Digital senior staff.

The Summary report can be found hereunder or in the Library of this space (see tab above)

You can find the Summary and the Full version on the EIT Digital site HERE

We would appreciate your reactions hereunder.

Fred Turner is in this interesting paper talking us through societal change from the sixties till Trump. How individualism, communal thinking, engineering and social platforms have affected our democracies today. You can read it HERE

Paul Butcher gives a strong plea to recognize that all stakeholders carry a certain responsibility in the fight against disinformation. Private and public actors as well as societal organisations should together aim at structural solutions that increase trust in the main public and private actors and give tools to individuals to recognize disinformation from valuable information. See the publication in ths library.

In a blog: Block Chain's Occam Problem  Mckinsey expresses doubts on the usefulness of applications of Block Chain, in particular in financal industry, but also on the potential in many other application areas.The blog is a worthy reading.
Particularly also the conclusions that there can nevertheless be real potential in specific cases which would shift ownership on data from corporations to consumers. An excellent example seems to be private Block Chains that give members control (by having the crypto key on the ledger) over who can read the ledger, which could be an extending set of Identity or personal data, personal medical data etc.

Suggestions have been made already on ID management by Kim Cameron (see his "Laws of Identity on the Block Chain" of 27 May 2018 on his BLOG).

Similar ideas can be worked out for e-Portfolios, i.e. ledgers of personal education and experience badges.

The conclusion might indeed be as stated HERE that Block Chain becomes mature and ... boring.

Kim Cameron discusses in his BLOG the introduction in September 2018 of the EU legislation (eIDAS) enabling cross-border recognition of electronic ID's. He welcomes this as the world’s first multinational identity trust framework.

DigEnlight strongly supports the eIDAS project and welcomes the support of large ICT companies to make this a success in the EU.

Join the discussion in the Journal of Information Policy HERE

Deadline 15 Jan, see HERE

On 8 Nov 2018 DigEnlight organised a workshop on the above subject.

You can find the scope description and the programme at HERE.

In the Library of this space (see tab above) you can find a summary and full report.

A number of questions and ideas came up during the discussions in Panel 3, which I copy below

QUESTIONS

1. Why the education is not centralized in Europe? Why Aaron thinks it should not be centralized? Do you have the same opinion?
2. Who is deciding the curriculae for employees of the European Commission? How the permanent learning is done?
3. We have developed a mid-career transition online training platform that we would like to make available, which channel is the best to reach learners at scale?
4. As a student I was very good at numerical reasoning tests. This week I had to do one for recruitment and struggled. Can you forget this skill, become rusty?
5. How we can access and obtain the lessons presented by Xavier?
6. Knowledge nuggets - excellent way of learning. Where we can obtain a list of existing nuggets?
7. Which are the curriculae and learning courses for the people already working in the Commission? Can you give examples of training courses? And certifications.

 IDEAS

1. Education should focus on nurturing creativity so that people are able to ‘learn to learn’ later in life.
2. Create learning ecosystems, bringing together academia, business and policy makers.
3. Collaboration, cooperation, critical and creative thinking are the essential pillars of new pedagogy.
4. Why Education is not centralized all over Europe?
5. Promoting STEM skills st secondary education level and creating inclusive educational environments.
6. Stronger promotion of Bologna. EU students are still not mobile enough. Partially because they are unaware of the mechanism that enables them to do their (STEM) Masters elsewhere.
7. EU level (respected, fraud-proof) digital/entrepreneurial skills certification for online and blended learning.

I invite everyone to join the discussion by registering at this site as a (free) user and comment below.

Privacy Camp will take place just before the start of the CPDP conference. Privacy Camp brings together civil society, policy-makers and academia to discuss existing and looming problems for human rights in the digital environment.

Call for Proposals: Platforms, Politics, Participation

Privacy Camp 2019 will focus on digital platforms, their societal impact and political significance. Due to the rise of a few powerful companies such as Uber, Facebook, Amazon or Google, the term “platform” has moved beyond its initial computational meaning of technological architecture and has come to be understood as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Platforms are said to facilitate and shape human interactions, thus becoming important economic and political actors. While the companies offering platform services are increasingly the target of regulative action, they are also considered as allies of national and supranational institutions in enforcing policies voluntarily and gauging political interest and support. Digital platforms employ business models that rely on the collection of large amounts of data and the use of advanced algorithms, which raise concerns about their surveillance potential and their impact on political events. Increasingly rooted in the daily life of many individuals, platforms monetise social interactions and turn to questionable labor practices. Many sectors and social practices are being “platformised”, from public health to security, from news to entertainment services. Lately, some scholars have conceptualised this phenomenon as “platform capitalism” or “platform society”.

 Privacy Camp 2019 will unpack the implications of “platformisation” for the socio-political fabric, human rights and policy making. In particular, how does the platform logic shape our experiences and the world we live in? How do institutional actors attempt to regulate platforms? In what ways do the affordances and constraints of platforms shape how people share and make use of their data?

Participate!

We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of platforms. Besides classic panel proposals we are also seeking short contributions for our workshop “Situating Platforms: User Narratives”.

1. Panel proposals

We are particularly interested in panel proposals on the following topics: platform economy and labour; algorithmic bias; democratic participation and social networks.

Submission guidelines:

• Indicate a clear objective for your session, i.e. what would be a good outcome for you?
• Indicate other speakers that could participate in your panel (...