- Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
Individualised notions of consent for data use do little to help societies seeking to address collective health crises and other community needs.
Answers are all the rage in the information age. However, to become wise we will need to learn to formulate better questions.
As states and nations struggle to regulate growing AI use, municipal authorities are often leading the way. An emerging paradigm known as AI Localism can help us better define the way forward.
By looking at the evolving history of the open government data movement, scientists can see both limitations to current approaches and identify ways to move forward from them.
L’examen du mouvement en faveur du libre accès aux données publiques peut permettre aux chercheurs de cerner les lacunes des approches en vigueur sur la science ouverte.
A new report from the GovLab and the French Development Agency (AFD) examines how development practitioners are experimenting with emerging forms of technology to advance development goals.
In our increasingly datafied world, there is a clear need to develop and disseminate responsible approaches for handling data for and about children.
Can open data change the world? We looked beyond the hype to find out.
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of disasters in the near future, leveraging social media data, crowd-sourcing and other means of discovering the unknown will become crucial.
Data can be used to limit damage from natural disasters and to improve our lives.
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