The CyFy Edit 2019

Who benefits from the failure to regulate the cyberspace?

The pandemic is ‘the’ moment. Hack yourself

If we are empowered enough, we can see order in chaos and focus our efforts on social innovation to ‘make things happen’ — but above all, we learn to be ...

Digital Wise: How will we prepare ourselves for the future?

Whole brain function is required to support not only analysis functions — where we zoom in to see the detail — but also synthesis functions where we zoom out to ...

Pandemic Shock: A widening inequality gap among emerging cities in Asia

The new normal would be about reinventing the realms. How would the cities be further planned and developed in the future? ...

Tech for All: Access, rights, and innovation moving forward

Digital technologies are quickly becoming an everyday necessity. What can we do to bridge this gap of inequality and establish digital technology as a right for all? ...

Modern democracy: Data, surveillance creep and more authoritarian regimes?

There continues to be speculation and worry about what will happen next and about when the pandemic will end and what the world will look like after. Nothing right now ...

Can small data lead to better advertising?

No technological solution is free of the possibility of negative outcomes and unintended consequences. It is possible that small data-based CRM for MSMEs can be used by criminals selling illegal ...

Repurposing innovations: Learning from Bangladesh’s rapid response to the pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic was a new threat that demanded fast decision-making, innovations, flexibility, and a new way of “doing” government. ...

Bike-sharing’s new life in China after lockdown

Because of the pandemic, shared vehicles are edging into the mainstream, slowly overtaking public transport and private cars as the favoured way of travelling. This could change people’s perception of ...

What can artificial intelligence tell us about the scale of Covid-19 in China?

How is the discrepancy between the Chinese government’s own words and the statistics it released is so pronounced? The answer to this question can be traced back to World War ...

Going beyond third-party liability to regulate content: Examples from Germany and Singapore

Given the complexities and the possible excess of making the Internet (more) fragmented, should we consider doing more than just demanding liability from the platform? ...

Embodied surveillance during Covid-19 in India: A feminist perspective

Guidelines on public mobility may be needed to control community transmission. However, when this is carried out in a manner that evokes fear without taking into account the socio-economic contexts ...

Women and Tech: How 2020 spotlights the digital divide

Digital divides have traditionally been associated with the “connected — unconnected” binary around the world, considering only one aspect of the whole techno-digital experience for people: the digital divide related ...

The new edge in human performance: ‘Imagination Performance’

With pandemic induced layoffs, widespread corporate bankruptcies, the slowdown of international supply chains and the dramatic reduction of the movement of people around the world, a new type of human ...

Data localisation in emerging markets: The case of Turkey

Data localisation requirements under Turkish law have so far been sector-specific and, hence, limited in scope.

Technologies changing diplomatic practices: Pre and post-Covid-19 reality

In the time of modern means of communication, diplomacy must evolve as well. The question is — what is the right direction of this evolution?

Reconciling privacy and surveillance in democracies

The respect of civil rights and liberties is the backbone of democracies. To undermine these fundamental rights is to undermine democracy — abroad, but also at home.

Governance through the digital disruption of democracy

In order to save democracy from our own digital tools, we need to adopt a new model of governing digitally — public leaders must take a systemic approach to these ...

Data stewardship: Collective bargaining for privacy

Pooling data rights to negotiate better with platform companies can help rebalance power in the data economy and address the growing gaps in individual data protections. ...

Treading the unusual alliance between Big Tech and the government post-Covid-19

No matter how dangerous it is to individual freedoms, government-Big Tech collaboration is necessary, both in times of crisis as well as normalcy as more welfare service delivery is reliant ...