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EngTalk South Asia - Engineering a Digital Future

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  • Duration: 37 mins
  • Publication date: 10 Aug 2021

Abstract

Explore some of the exciting technologies that just a few decades ago, could only be found in the pages of science fiction stories, but are now very much part of our everyday lives. As the pace of technological change increases, which of today’s blue-sky inventions will find their way into common use?

You’ll hear about some of the newest developments and ways of thinking that are putting digital technologies at the centre of our lives; including creating and controlling avatars in a virtual world, technology as an equaliser, responsible AI for social empowerment, bringing about a hyper digital and contactless world, and how new technologies are changing the entertainment industry.

This event is hosted by IET South Asia as part of the IET@150 celebrations. In our anniversary year, we have been looking at engineering difference makers and how they are changing the world – you will certainly hear from some of them here!

Keywords:
  • EngTalk
  • Rob van Kranenburg
  • blue sky inventions
  • engineering difference makers
  • how new technologies are changing the entertainment industry.
  • hyper digital and contactless world

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  • Rob  van Kranenburg

    Rob van Kranenburg

    Next Generation Internet Policy Lab, Forward Strategy Team

    Rob van Kranenburg currently works in the Forward Strategy Team in the Next Generation Internet Policy Lab – an organisation that aims to develop an alternative, citizen-led model for the internet. He founded the #IoT Council in 2009 and the IoTday in 2010, and was named by Insight.tech as one of the top 15 IoT influencers to follow in 2021.Rob will be speaking on Urban cold spots and disposable identitiesIn our connected world security and proof (evidence constituted in Verifiable Credentials (VC, W3C)) is distributed over what an individual can attest, what my objects tell about me (that is why AI = inferences from that data, is so important), and my behaviour: “apply shaving foam” is a number in coelition.org. It is clear that we can no longer isolate the notion of security as in securing devices or securing infrastructure. Two novel utopian visions of technology are proposed: urban “cold spots” and “disposable identities.” The aim is to safeguard human digital rights in the digital smart urban sphere: our cherished freedom of expression, privacy, autonomy, and civic assembly.
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