How Africa can benefit from the data revolution
My latest post for The Guardian on the data revolution in Africa: Locally-driven data projects across the continent can enable the infrastructure to bring about economic change The UN has…
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The data driven economy will help marketers exploit us
My latest post of The Guardian: The internet of things will improve marketers’ understanding of consumers, enabling them to better advertise products we don’t need The mathematical basis of rational…
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How to prevent creeping artificial intelligence becoming creepy
My latest post for The Guardian on artificial intelligence: With successful AI emerging slowly and almost without us noticing, we must improve the understanding between human and computer. The traditional…
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Let’s learn the rules of the digital road before talking about a web Magna Carta
My latest post for The Guardian: Technology is moving so fast we’re only beginning to understand how it will change society. It’s too early to distill our thinking to an…
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Vote for CitizenMe to bring the privacy debate to SXSW
We want consumer privacy issues to take centre stage at next year’s SXSW Interactive – but we need your vote to make it happen! CitizenMe is teaming up with…
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PhoneGap: nearly there – but not quite
A while back I wrote about an internal proof of concept we were doing in order to port our app to Android using PhoneGap. The exercise was time boxed to…
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When going Native is simply too costly
As a small start-up in the privacy and identity space we are coming to the realisation that developing a native mobile app on multiple platforms is not very scalable and…
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“Right to self” – solving the biggest problem of the Internet
Were he alive today and busy defining matters of self, the philosopher Descartes might have rationally proposed: I’m digital; therefore I am. And who could argue with that? From mobile…
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