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2020-03-01

Saving the Internet—and all the commons it makes possible

This is the Ostrom Memorial Lecture I gave on 9 October of last year for the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. Here is the video. (The intro starts at 8 minutes in, and my part starts just after 11 minutes in.) I usually speak off the cuff, but this time I wrote it out, originally in outline form*, which is germane […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Commons, digital culture, Digital Democracy, Digital Ecologies, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Future, values, Values to Value, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-12-01

The Second Wave of Algorithmic Accountability

  Which systems really deserve to be built? Which problems most need to be tackled? Who is best placed to build them? And who decides? We need genuine accountability mechanisms, external to companies and accessible to populations Over the past decade, algorithmic accountability has become an important concern for social scientists, computer scientists, journalists, and lawyers. Exposés have […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, AI, Algorithms, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, Institutional Innovation, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-11-18

Against Economics

David Graeber reviews Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics  by Robert Skidelsky Mainstream economists nowadays might not be particularly good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but when it comes to establishing themselves in positions of intellectual authority, unaffected by such failings, their […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Future of Money, New Economic Paradigm, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-10-22

Putting the ‘I’ in science

Chris Lintott’s chronicle of the booming citizen-science project Zooniverse is inspirational, finds Michael West. The Crowd and the Cosmos: Adventures in the Zooniverse Chris Lintott Oxford University Press (2019) Citizen science is booming. Today, anyone with a computer or a smartphone can participate in research in astronomy, oceanography, medicine, zoology and beyond. With such studies no longer […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Automation, Bit Data, Citizen Science, Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Gig Economy, Value, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

2019-09-26

The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution

Commercial platforms cannot prioritise the ideals of a liberal public sphere, much less the principle of popular sovereignty, over the profit motive. Introduction The information technology sector broadly defined is now at the leading edge of the capitalist system. Material production and distribution, enterprise and professional management, finance, insurance and real estate are all increasingly […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Digital Democracy, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, Digital Governance, digital public commons, Institutional Innovation, New Business Models, values, Valuing Values Leave a Comment

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