People Centered Supply Chain Requires New Skills

On October 26 2018, Mei Lin Fung addressed an audience of government and business leaders, attending the Crowdsourcing Week Global Conference in Washington D.C., on the opportunity to leverage crowdsourcing in the online Business to Business (B2B) arena which is already 2.5 times larger than online Business to Consumer (B2C). In order to anticipate the Read More

World Data Lab models the world’s population to help us visualize and better understand our common humanity

World Data Lab, a mission-driven, for-profit company, creates visual representations of changes in global populations and economies by meshing satellite imagery with existing data. Their work shows how data maintained for public use and public benefit can help us better understand ourselves as members of humanity, an important step on the journey to making technology Read More

IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 17 October 2018

Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 17 October 2018 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Read More

IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 3 October 2018

Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 3 October 2018 summary – IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor – is available here. Read more summaries here. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for Read More

Tables and Tickets to the Dec 10 Event are Now on Sale

Each table is $10,000 and includes 10 seats to the Dec 10th event and evening gala. Confirmed speakers include Tim Berners Lee, Vint Cerf, Radia Perlman, Wendy Hall and more. See the full speaker list and more information about the event here. Interested in sponsoring the event or buying a table? Please email: stephaniewander@gmail.com For individual attendance, register Read More

Project Coqui Summer Story

Relief efforts continue following on from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Maria. In this article, Melvin Cordova details how his initiative, and others, have taken off. ________________________ By Melvin Cordova, Project Coqui Lead “Es un gran placer para mi el poder describir el progreso de nuestro Projecto Coqui”. We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, and it Read More

People-Centered Internet Contributions to Community Resilience

By Dr. Linton Wells II, Executive Advisor to the Community Resilience Lab at George Mason University and President of Global Resilience Strategies The People-Centered Internet’s (PCI) aim  is to “put humanity at the center of the Internet”, and a large part of this objective includes, “Providing support and expertise for projects that demonstrably improve people’s Read More

From cheeseburgers to coral reefs, the science of decision-making can change the world

As we seek to inspire a People-Centered Digital Future, we must start to look seriously at the incentives for businesses, designers, architects, developers and entrepreneurs, in this arena. And these incentives can go far beyond the realms of monetary results. Nudge, the book by Nobel prize winner Richard Thaler, examines how we can improve decision Read More

David Bray Visits Global Summit 2018 by Singularity University

Dr. David Bray, Executive Director of People-Centered Internet, and faculty member of Singularity University gave a talk at the institution’s Global Summit of 2018, on ‘Our People-Centered Digital Future and the Exponential Era Ahead’. Watch the video below. ________________________ If you liked this article, you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook for more updates.