How Mayors Can Bridge the Digital Divide One City at a Time with Stephanie Mash Sykes (Ep. 99)
/in Civic Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, home post, podcast /by Joe MillerHow Mayors Can Bridge the Digital Divide One City at a Time with Stephanie Mash Sykes (Ep. 99)
The Rise of Technology is a Double-Edged Sword for many African Americans Recent reports suggest that African Americans have the most to gain, and yet the most to lose, from advances in technology. The digital divide persists. Recent Pew research shows 86% of blacks reported being internet users, compared to 90% of all respondents. However, just 65% of Black survey respondents to the Pew study have access to broadband at home, compared to 73% of Internet users overall, and 78% of white
How to Work with Philanthropists in Silicon Valley with Gina Dalma (Ep. 98)
/in Artificial Intelligence, Civic Engagement, Cybersecurity, Education, home post, podcast /by Joe MillerHow to Work with Philanthropists in Silicon Valley with Gina Dalma (Ep. 98)
Philanthropists in Silicon Valley Want Your Ideas The provincial Silicon Valley that was loathe to step outside of Northern California is practically ancient history. An industry that once shunned Washington, D.C.’s buttoned-up bureaucrats now leads in lobbying and campaign contributions. Increasingly, philanthropists in Silicon Valley are making investments that in many ways are changing the very structure of our institutions. The New York Times is running a series on the institutional
African American Women in Engineering: Statistics and Solutions with Nicole Yates (Ep. 97)
/in Diversity & Inclusion, Education, home post, podcast /by Joe MillerAfrican American Women in Engineering: Statistics and Solutions with Nicole Yates (Ep. 97)
African American Women Engineers’ Silent Struggle Against Indifference I had a hard time finding a title for this post. I wanted to come up with something that would speak to what people were already searching for. So I went to Google Trends and entered “black women in engineering”. The results showed zero interest over the past 5 years. I tried “African American women in engineering”. Again, no one was searching for these terms, according to Google. I tried narrowing the search to just
What Do Emojis Mean for the Law? with Gabriella Ziccarelli and Joe Sremack (Ep. 96)
/in home post, Net Neutrality/Internet Economy, podcast /by Joe MillerWhat Do Emojis Mean for the Law? with Gabriella Ziccarelli and Joe Sremack (Ep. 96)
Can Using Emojis Get You in Trouble? You know what emojis mean. Otherwise, you wouldn’t use them. Right? One recent University of Minnesota study found that there can be vast differences between what you and your recipient think that emoji means.Use the wrong emoji, and you may have some explaining to do. What you think is a smile on your iPhone could look more like a grimace on the recipient’s end who is using a different device. Cases in which courts must determine what
Racism Online — Detecting Stealthy Bigotry with Rijul Magu (Ep. 95)
/in Artificial Intelligence, First Amendment, home post, Media, podcast /by Joe MillerRacism Online — Detecting Stealthy Bigotry with Rijul Magu (Ep. 95)
America’s History of Recalcitrance De jure discrimination Racism online is evolving in a way that is consistent with the way racism has always evolved–from explicit to subtle. Plaintiff-side civil rights lawyers have found it easiest to win — if civil rights cases can ever said to be “easy”– in cases in which they can convincingly demonstrate defendants’ explicit discriminatory policies. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board
SLAPP Suits and Freedom of Speech with Laurent Crenshaw (Ep. 94)
/in First Amendment, home post, Net Neutrality/Internet Economy, podcast /by Joe MillerSLAPP Suits and Freedom of Speech with Laurent Crenshaw (Ep. 94)
What is a SLAPP Suit? Let’s say you own a small business called “Policy Town Fajitas”. You think your business is second-to-none. You’ve invested in it–time, sweat, money and otherwise … But then, all of a sudden, one of your customers doesn’t fancy your business as much as you do. So they post a negative review about your business on a site like Yelp. They say your “chicken fajitas taste like pigeon and that’s how I know it’s not authentic Mexican food.” If you’re like most
How Much Privacy Should You Expect in the Digital Age? with Bernard Chao (Ep. 93)
/in Big Data/Privacy, home post, Law Enforcement, podcast /by Joe MillerHow Much Privacy Should You Expect in the Digital Age? with Bernard Chao (Ep. 93)
The digital age is challenging the way our judicial system balances privacy against the needs of law enforcement. The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.” Our devices, as well as cloud-based services like Dropbox, have revolutionized our concept of what information should be considered private. For example, in U.S. v. Graham, the
ISIS Online: Are they Winning? with Audrey Alexander (Ep. 92)
/in Defense, home post, podcast /by Joe MillerISIS Online: Are they Winning? with Audrey Alexander (Ep. 92)
The London Bridge terror attacks that occurred this past weekend are causing policymakers to once again re-evaluate the efficacy of their counterterrorism efforts against ISIS. ISIS counterterrorism expert Audrey Alexander (@aud_alexander) is a Research Fellow at The George Washington University Program on Extremism. Before joining the Program on Extremism, she worked at King’s College London’s International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR). At ICSR, Audrey used open source
Privacy and Digital Marketing with Anindya Ghose (Ep. 91)
/in Big Data/Privacy, home post, Net Neutrality/Internet Economy, podcast /by Joe MillerBalancing Privacy Policy Against the Demands of Digital Marketing with Anindya Ghose (Ep. 91)
How can policymakers balance consumers’ need for targeted, relevant content against such consumers’ desire for privacy? Anindya Ghose (@aghose) is a Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences and a Professor of Marketing at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is the Director of the Center for Business Analytics at NYU Stern, and the co-Chair of the NYU-AIG Partnership on Innovation for Global Resilience. He is the NEC Faculty Fellow and a Daniel P.
Access to 5G with Yosef Getachew (Ep. 90)
/in home post, podcast, Wireless /by Joe Miller5G Internet is Coming Soon: What is it? How fast? Who will have access? with Yosef Getachew (Ep. 90)
Yosef Getachew (@getachew2) is a Policy Fellow at Public Knowledge where he works on a variety of technology and communications issues. Prior to joining Public Knowledge, Yosef worked as a law clerk for several technology and communications organizations including the Federal Communications Commission, Comcast, Facebook, and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Yosef has also served as a Project Coordinator and Research Assistant for the Joint Center for Political and
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