Why Government Involvement in Content Moderation Could Be Problematic
U.K. to Penalize Platforms for Content Violations The U.K. government announced last week that they plan to enact legislature which will penalize social media platforms that do not remove or block harmful content on their sites. The U.K. elaborated that posts
Human Rights, Technology and Partnerships
Solid documentation and verified facts are key tools for human rights defenders. Human rights violations happens daily, all over the world, and there is always someone who knows something. The challenge is documenting those violations, placing responsibility, telling the story
Don’t Be Evil: the Other Side of the Tech Industry
How to Address the Tech World's Moral Blindness Who leads the tech world and what is their impact on the economy? Put together two remarkable statistics: Of the ten richest men in America, only three are not tech billionaires: Warren Buffett
Is the Cloud Always safe? And How Can We Ensure Our Privacy?
Compaas is a new startup working in the field of security, privacy and cloud computing. We had the opportunity to chat with Compaas CEO Adam Moisa, about the history and features of Compaas – an innovative management program that allows
Zero Fome: Our Future
SDG2 - End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture - What it means With a focus on transformation, universality and interconnectedness, combined with an ambition to tackle root causes, SDG2 encapsulates the vision driving the whole
Google’s Digital News Initiative: Supporting Innovation or Wooing European Journalism?
Ever wondered about the myth of start-ups launched in a garage? The story of Google’s founding proves that it’s not entirely a myth: the story starts in 1994 with the launch of the Digital Library Initiative (DLI) by three US government
Fredrik Almroth on Hacking Google, Security and Technology
One of the best things about business conferences is that you get a chance to know people and companies you perhaps would not have met otherwise. This interview is a result of an earlier encounter with Detectify, a Swedish company
The Secret to Driving Customer Engagement
BOOK REVIEW HOOKED: HOW TO BUILD HABIT-FORMING PRODUCTS by Nir Eyal 256 pages, Penguin (2014) Winner of best Marketing book in 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards 2014 Engagingly written, this book is a brilliant application of behavioral psychology to business situations. As the Internet has
Wearable Technology, Take Two
With the release of the Apple Watch, wearable technology is back on the forefront of people’s minds after the debacle that was the release of Google Glass. Will it be another remarkable success among the storied successes of the iPod,
Bauwow, the App – The Founders interview
Why build apps for humans only? Dogs have a social life, dogs like to be around dogs and dogs have a right to be happy! That’s how Bauwow was born a year ago, the brainchild of two dog lovers, Peter
To Publish and Perish
Amazon and its 3.4 Million E-Books: the End of Culture? For a long while now, people have debated how many e-books Amazon carried it in its Kindle Store, because Amazon has never divulged the data. Some daringly ventured the figure of
Is Google Plus on Its Way Out?
The geeks are convinced of it: Google is about to snuff out Google Plus. The younger generations, Millennials in particular, consider Google+ a social media disaster. Something totally useless, even laughable. A month ago, Google Plus' founding father, Vic Gundotra,