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Research articles on INNOVATION
What happens when legal principles meet speculative storytelling and role-play workshops? Our interdisciplinary team found new ways to govern smart glasses, leading to the ‘ethics of interactions’ framework.
This article considers the public value of automated and datafied welfare and uses the capability approach, buen vivir, and data justice to explore the relation between the procedural and normative components of emerging infrastructures of welfare.
This paper investigates decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) as a potential policy response to the issue of declining trust online and argues that while DAOs have privileged displacing the need for trust, they can also be designed to nourish trust thereby fostering participation and prosocial use cases.
Digital organising refers to the collective purposeful alignment and distributed action fostered through digital technologies. The apparently opposing nature of digital organising draws attention to the need to unravel the concept theoretically.
We focus on using patent data, with machine learning methods, in the context of China, for the purpose of tracking the pace of development of potentially human rights sensitive smart city technologies.
Reproducing the GDPR provided the LGPD with principles that compel firms to innovate in the Brazilian privacy-enhancing technologies market. To rebalance opportunities for Brazilian firms, this paper advocates implementing local content policy for privacy-enhancing technologies.
In this article, I propose a distinction between individual harm, collective harm and societal harm caused by artificial intelligence (AI), and focus particularly on the latter. By listing examples and identifying concerns, I provide a conceptualisation of AI’s societal harm so as to better enable its identification and mitigation. Drawing on an analogy with environmental law, which also aims to protect an interest affecting society at large, I propose governance mechanisms that EU policymakers should consider to counter AI’s societal harm.
The automation of the media has inserted new actors in the editorial process. This calls for a reassessment of the reasons why and ways in which policy can create the conditions for an independent media.
A cryptocurrency system can be understood as a system intended for the issuance of tokens which are intended to be used as a general or limited-purpose medium-of-exchange, and which are accounted for using an often collectively-maintained digital ledger making use of cryptography to replace trust in institutions to varying extents. Against such a backdrop, the singular term cryptocurrency can mean a token, intended to be used as a general or limited-purpose medium-of-exchange, issued via a cryptocurrency system.