Bio

I am Managing Director of the World Ethical Data Foundation and CEO of the World Ethical Data Forum. The World Ethical Data Foundation is a non-profit organisation that examines the opportunities and problems arising from the development of technologies that are opening unprecedented possibilities for knowledge and influence. The Foundation also develops several solutions. The ERA project, for instance, is among other things a language-neutral international standard indexing system designed to catalogue all data relating to human rights and fundamental freedoms. Its architecture ensures that relevant information is censorship resistant and tamper-proof, and can be easily and precisely found. The first World Ethical Data Forum took place in Barcelona in September 2018 and was covered globally by major national news outlets including News. com. au, the Daily Mail, The Guardian, Russia Today, Ruptly, MSNBC, Business Insider, New American, CNN Greece, The Herald, The Courier, and Wall Street Italia. The event also featured in a documentary by La Kaseta, Battle of Social Networks, which looked at three different modern day moments of great social upheaval in which social media has played a significant role: The Occupy Movement, The Arab Spring, and The Catalan Referendum. It showcased headline speakers, including National Inventors Hall of Fame and National Cybersecurity Hall of Fame inductee Ralph Merkle, scientist, inventor, New York Times bestselling author and advisor to Nasa’s Innovative & Advanced Concepts program David Brin, human rights lawyer and WikiLeaks counsel Jennifer Robinson, and Wikileaks Editor in Chief Julian Assange, the video of which interview the Forum broadcast as it was shown, causing a media frenzy that resulted in 2.4 million views across YouTube alone in a single week. Against the background of the many urgent and related issues in media and politics that continue to dominate headlines globally, the third flagship World Ethical Data Forum will be held digitally on October 26-28, 2022. As a vital part of our inclusivity strategy, the flagship forum has no paywalls, no cap on attendance, and the event will be run on #opensource, #interoperable, #decentralised and #privacy-respecting event infrastructure. Visit our new webiste and pre-register here: https://worldethicaldataforum.org https://worldethicaldata.org | https://worldethicaldataforum.org Follow us on Twitter: @WEDF_forum | @WEDF_foundation