Playing with artificial intelligence

The creative potential of artificial intelligence known from the world of video games is now used to create new music and even new sports.

Does AI offer planetary solutions to planetary problems?

Global problems require systemic solutions. AI promises help but carries risk when it comes to climate change, war and social inequality.

Can artificial intelligence become fit for democracies?

Fair and just artificial intelligence requires ethical understanding, diverse development, strategic investments, and robust regulation.

A useful toolkit but no solution to global health problems

The Covid-19 pandemic shows how AI technologies can be useful in managing global health crises but also of where they fall short.

A brief history of artificial intelligences

Words that are common today, like artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning date back to the early days of computers.

Data centres are giant airliners never needing to refuel

The environmental impact and energy costs of digital infrastructures can be mitigated by decentralising the data, and giving users control.

A million tiny safes are stronger than a single big vault

Decentralising where user data lives reduces the amount of data compromised in a breach and removes the economic reward for attackers.

“We as a data privacy community have failed completely”

polypoly envisions a future where personal data is kept not in the data centres of giant tech monopolies but with the users themselves.

Elves vs. Trolls

Counter-democratic internet trolls are a global phenomenon. We need organized forces of cyber elves to fight them.

The challenge of democracy in the digital era

Is the internet helping or hurting democratic processes around the globe? In most countries, it is doing both.

An open source alternative for “the cloud”

Cloud services have become the default tools many people use to get their work done. But this can mean giving up privacy and control. Some open source alternatives are now offering tools to put people back in charge.

Kære Kulturminister Mette Bock

Jeg har sendt følgende email til Kulturministeren om Danmarks forhandlingsposition i forbindelse med Ophavsretsdirektivet.

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Copenhagen internet infrastructure walk

This walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.

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The web was successful because it was simple

The early development of the world wide web was based on providing a basic public good for sharing knowledge. That was key to its success.

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Stop calling kids digital natives

Digital literacy is pointless without a digital upbringing to establish norms. Kids need adult guidance when learning to use technology.

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Art is the key that unlocks digital literacy

Artistic creativity is necessary for technology, not just for innovation in the marketplace but to realize its potential for participation.

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How do social media affect your mental health?

Do social media stress you out? Are you addicted to Facebook? We look into the science of how tech affects your emotional well-being.

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Technology stories should not be about the technologies

Behind all technology, there is a negotiation of power taking place. Writing about tech and ignoring the power is irresponsible journalism, says Ingrid Burrington.

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It takes more than a wind farm to clean up a data center

Switching data centers to renewable energy sources like wind and solar only blunts one part of the environmental impact of cloud computing.

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The future of food needs interfaces

Technology has had a giant impact on the global food system. Designing human interfaces can help advance the future of what and how we eat.

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"Give people the right to talk to a human"

We sat down with Denis 'Jaromil' Roio for a talk about, among other things, what software developers can learn from the world of agriculture.

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Let us end algorithmic discrimination

It is possible to regain human control over the decision-making power of predictive algorithms and end their discriminatory effects on underprivileged people.

Mozilla Internet Health Reports

Django Girls: Communities of code from Argentina to Zimbabwe

“What excites me the most is inspiring another woman to fall in love with programming,” says Anna Makarudze who organizes Django Girls workshops in Zimbabwe. “Just knowing that I am making a difference in somebody else’s life is really a great feeling. Through this, I meet so many women,

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Building a multilingual Internet

Typing and reading online in a non-English language with a non-Latin script is not always easy. Speakers of the Indic language Malayalam used to depend on buggy, badly rendering fonts to write on the Internet. But a dedicated decade-long effort has made typing and writing Malayalam on the Internet a