Digitalisation

Overcoming the “social dilemma”: Problems of AI content curation and its alternatives

This article series by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung's Hong Kong office explores possible alternatives to the internet’s current mechanisms and practices in content curation.

By Lucia Siu

Is Covid-19 the challenge health tech was waiting for?

Feature

The global pandemic became a linchpin for many health-tech startup companies that were struggling to find their purpose. In 2020, the industry saw record funding and attention – and the need to balance investor’s expectations with public health concerns.

By Srividya Kalyanaraman

The pandemic has made Mexico’s gig economy even riskier

Commentary

As the economic recession continues, more people are working for delivery apps, flooding the market and lowering the quality of service.

By Rodolfo Aguirre Reveles

Artificial Intelligence and Climate Change

E-paper

With the increasing deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across society, it is important to understand in which ways AI may accelerate or impede climate progress, and how various stakeholders can guide those developments.

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Pan-European contact-tracing – a chance for more normality and freer movement

Commentary

Most EU countries have worked out the kinks in their contact-tracing apps and now offer them as part of efforts to track coronavirus infection and break the chain of transmission. The next step is ensuring the apps can connect across borders.

By Zora Siebert

The European Green Deal and Digitalisation

Conversation

Will the EU witness a Digital Green Deal? Strengths and weaknesses of the digital age have become more apparent over the course of the pandemic, but how can policy makers address these challenges and interlink them with a comprehensive and ambitious ecological approach?

By Martin Keim

Privacy in the EU and US

Study

This research examines how aspects of privacy and data protection are working for consumers in two major economic areas – the EU and the US. Both have high levels of digital use, and major online providers offer very similar services in both regions. However, their legal approach to data protection and privacy are very different: while the EU has a general data protection law, the US to-date has not enacted such an all-encompassing law at the federal level.dig

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Innovation Report: Civil Society Innovation and Populism in a Digital Era

Publication

Across 14 case studies from international and national civil society organisations, networks and movements from populist contexts around the world, the report highlights their innovativeness, effectiveness in countering different elements of populism, and responsiveness to the potential of digital media in the specific context.

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