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## THEME 2023:IOT FOR GOOD
The Internet of Things is a complex term. Unlike its predecessors Ambient Intelligence, Pervasive Computing, Ubicomp, or Things that Think, it does not disappear but keeps revitalising itself every year. It has referred mainly to networks, infrastructure, sensors and gateways to the Edge and the Cloud, security and intranets and the internet, and it has always kept a single thread throughout all the transitions. That thread is data. IoT is about turning data into actionable information. The actionable part is possible because of two developments: DLT to provide accurate and traceable data and AI that through Machine and Deep Learning is now able to give insights that humans can very rarely give because it makes correlations between data sets that have never er been made. Decision making on the basis of accurate and insightful data and information, what more can we as humans desire? Of course we know that data from sensors and ledgers is not ‘the’ truth but it is a close to have an as unbiased as possible layers for decision making. That in itself is a reason to call IoT doing good in the sense of being part of the solution, not the problem. But more important are the long term goals that we are setting to point the direction in which we want to go. These can be sustainability, mitigating climate change, tackling inequality and creating transparency in decision making.
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Statecraft, the sovereignty debate
·OnlineOnlineThe discussion on sovereignty needs to be implementation.
Where are we now and what needs to be done?This bi-weekly half hour sovereignty moments hears from the key actors and architects what to do now.
One of the drivers of the biweekly session is my Springer Brief in Political Science on Statecraft.
That is the kickoff of the series.
This book describes the transition from basic automation to pervasive computing, ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, and the Internet of Things, and its effects on democratic decision-making and governance in Europe. It diagnoses a lack of political agency and technical capabilities in the West that has accelerated the end of the model of entrepreneurial government in favor of a new paradigm: Cyber-physical Systems. Offering an analysis of the digital transformation process in various industries and institutions, the book highlights the severe repercussions and impacts on democratic decision-making and the legitimacy of the Westphalian model of the nation-state. Readers will learn how the convergence of cloud systems, data platforms, and connected objects is facilitating this transformation process, one characterized by a virtual representation of every person, object, and machine – a digital twin.
The book argues for balancing centralization and decentralization in a cybernetic framework with human-centric values at its core1 attendee
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