PCI Executive Director Dr. David Bray gave a main-stage talk at Singularity University’s Global Summit on Our People-Centered Digital Future. Below is a short article from that talk, on development of “a more people-centered approach to decentralized supply chains”. We welcome suggestions from members of the coalition about how this development could be accelerated by activities of Read More
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Before Regulating Next-Generation Mobility Data, We Must Understand That Data
By Evangelos Simoudis, Ph.D., Managing Director, Synapse Partners As connected vehicles become commonplace and we start using autonomous vehicles for a variety of consumer and corporate mobility services, we will need to address issues relating to the big data associated with the vehicles and their applications. Many of the companies that will employ autonomous vehicles will Read More
Digital Kenya: An Entrepreneurial Revolution in the Making
Vint Cerf, co-founder of People-Centered Internet, explores the move away from digital divide towards innovation in Kenya, and the potential for a revolution in the making Kenya is the birthplace of MPesa – mobile money’s runaway success. Editor Bitange Ndemo helped to launch the People-Centered Internet in 2015. Join 178,000 who have already downloaded a chapter. Read More
A Conversation with David Nordfors About a People-Centered Economy (PCE)
PCI has been exploring partnering with the i4j Innovation for Jobs Foundation that Vint Cerf also chairs. This article highlights perspectives from i4j on what a people-centered economy might look like in parallel to efforts towards a more people-centered Internet globally. By Miguel Peromingo When I ask David Nordfors what he thinks are the current game Read More
STAR-TIDES: Connectivity and Collaboration Demonstration This Fall
PCI has been collaborating with Dr. Linton Wells II, Executive Advisor for the Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications, Computing, Intelligence and Cyber at George Mason University. He is the former Director of the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at National Defense University (NDU), and the founder of the TIDES Project. Read More
Africa: The Model for Internet Connectivity as a Global Right
By Desire Banse, Prometheus Computing UAS Innovations Group Lead, Contractor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Africa is an example of rapid change that is centered on access and measurable change. For example, Google is building an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory in Ghana. Cote d’Ivoire has brought online its supercomputer in its ‘Centre Read More
IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 8 August 2018
Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 8 August 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
People-Centered Internet is Partnering with Constellation Research to Promote the Values of a ‘People-Centered Digital Future’
By Marci Harris, Dr. David Bray December 10, 2018 | Fairmont San Jose You are invited to get involved On December 10th, 2018, the People-Centered Internet (PCI), will partner with Constellation Research to host a historic kick-off event. This historic cast of Internet pioneer and leaders in innovation as well as the next generation Read More
Strengthening Pluralistic, Open Societies
By Dr. David Bray Never has 50% of humanity (i.e., approximately the percentage of people on the planet with access to the Internet as of 2018) had access to so much information per day. Yet with that access comes a challenge of our modern age: all of us can find information that supports our existent beliefs. Read More
IEEE Global Internet Policy Monitor: 25 July 2018
Valuable coverage of significant current policy activities happening around the world in the sphere of Internet technology is provided courtesy of IEEE. 25 July 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