If you have installed a wallet app on your smartphone, be careful. Many such apps can access data, even sensitive personal information, and have features that do more than just make payments. All that, with your due “permission”.
The article by Samarth Bansal was published in the Hindu on December 5, 2016. Pranesh Prakash was quoted.
Book by Parag Khanna: “American democracy just isn’t good enough anymore. A costly election has done more to divide American society than unite it, while trust in government—and democracy itself—is plummeting. But there are better systems out there, and America would be wise to learn from them.
Presentation by Patrick Meier at the Emergency Social Data Summit organized by the Red Cross …on “Collaborative Crisis Mapping” (the slides are available here): “What I want to expand on is the notion of a “marketplace for crowdsourcing” that I introduced at the Summit.
Richard E. Peltier at the Conversation: “Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated – and very expensive – equipment. That has changed with the rapid growth of small, inexpensive sensors that can be assembled by almost anyone. But an important question remains: Do these instruments measure what users think they are measuring?
Justine Brown at GovTech: “Esri and Waze announced in mid-October that they’re partnering to help local governments alleviate traffic congestion and analyze congestion patterns.
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No dia 25 novembro de 2016 encerrou-se o Fórum Técnico de Startups, promovido pela Assembleia Legislativa de Minas Gerais (ALMG). Seu objetivo era colher propostas da sociedade civil para a criação de uma política pública de estímulo a startups no estado. Nesse post, será feita um breve retomada histórica do desenvolvimento do projeto de lei e qual foi a participação o Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade (IRIS) no processo.
Como tudo começou: startups e desenvolvimento
The lack of basic privacy and security laws pertaining to digital payments in India puts the onus on consumers who use such services.
The article by Alnoor Peermohamed was published by Business Standard on December 2, 2016. Sunil Abraham was quoted.
Even as demonetisation pushes for more and more cashless and online transactions through, e-wallets, banks and other such apps, there is a serious lack of clarity on how these companies handle customer data, and how it is shared with other entities. "Data is the new oil," is an oft repeated phrase in nearly every technology related conversation that comes up anywhere in India today.
La conmemoración del Día de la Educación Parvularia, coincide con la apertura de la primera escuela de Educación Parvularia del país y de Latinoamérica, fundada en la Casa de Bello el año 1944, y se realizó en el marco del inicio de la construcción de uno de los cuatro jardines JUNJI que estarán instalados en diversos campus de nuestro plantel para el cuidado preferente de los hijos de estudiantes y funcionarias.
Tak Lo is busy creating startup leaders in Asia as managing director of Zeroth.ai, an AI-focused VC fund based in Hong Kong. He is a Director at R/GA Ventures Asia and a Venture Partner at Mind Fund, an early stage fund. He is also an advisor to the Estonian eResidency and Tech City Upscale Programs.
Dev Lewis talked to him in Hong Kong.
# 1
When I think of AI, I think of HAL.
HAL 9000 is the computer in *2001: A Space Odyssey*. HAL runs the systems on *Discovery One* the spacecraft sent to Jupiter to investigate a mysterious signal. Along the way, one things leads to another and HAL ends up trying to kill his human crew. He fails and is undone by crew member David Bowman who unplugs HAL’s systems—killing the computer while it sings a childhood song.
This moment is generally seen as poignant.
# 2
Automated technologies using artificial intelligence are increasingly being applied in daily life, and Australia is no exception. Transportation has emerged as a prominent area in which AI and automation are being deployed among the general population, prominently unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs – better known as drones) and autonomous vehicles (better known as ‘driverless cars’).
Earlier this year, the defeat of Go world champion Lee Sedol by Google’s AlphaGo underscored the coming-of-age of artificial intelligence (or AI for short). Since 1956, when the term AI was first coined, billions of dollars of investment have flowed into the development and commercialization of AI – a term referring to computer systems that demonstrate human-like intellect. Today, major tech companies like Google and IBM are claiming that AI will benefit humankind in unprecedented ways.
By definition, the project of artificial intelligence has largely been concerned with replicating human capability for logic and thought. The engineering history of AI reads like a narrative conflict of man versus himself, driven to model the next great feat of thought, capability for strategy, and even humor and punning. Those engineering benchmarks met, we pit man versus the machine in highly publicized feats of strength where AI bests man in his greatest games of chess, go, and Jeopardy.
