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SUMMARY:Lessons from history for governing the digital future - Speaker to
  be confirmed
DTSTART:20220405T170000Z
DTEND:20220405T181500Z
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CONTACT:Rebecca Leam
DESCRIPTION:*A panel discussion with leading experts on learning from hist
 ory to manage technological change as part of the Cambridge Festival 2022.
 *\n\nDigital technology – smart phones\, social media\, AI\, 5G\, virtua
 l reality\, smart homes... – is transforming the way we live\, work and 
 play. Opportunities from new digital products and services can drive econo
 mic growth and tackle some of the biggest challenges we face – from clim
 ate change and coronavirus to conflict and poverty. But how can we also cu
 rb the harms it creates? \n\n\nGovernments are scrambling to catch up with
  digital technology to balance individual and collective risks and rewards
 \, and fairly distribute economic\, political and social power within soci
 ety. What can we all learn from history –  take the industrial revolutio
 n for example – to help understand the present and harness the evolving 
 power of the digital age for the future?\n\n\nOur guest speakers\, Dr Clai
 re Melamed (Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data)\, James P
 lunkett (Author of End State)\, Dr Jeni Tennison (Global Partnership for A
 I – Data Governance Working Group) and chair\, Dr Julian Huppert (Intell
 ectual Forum at Jesus College) will share their knowledge and experience o
 n what lessons should (and should not) be drawn from historical analogies 
 in responding to technological change now and in the future.\n\n\nThis is 
 a hybrid event: Guests can attend in person or online and will have the op
 portunity to ask questions.\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Bennett Insti
 tute\, University of Cambridge\, and part of the Cambridge Festival 2022. 
  \n\nBook your place: https://www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/govern
 ing-digital-future/\n\n\n*Guest speakers*\n\n*Dr Julian Huppert* is the Di
 rector of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus which aims to cover the widest r
 ange of academic interests across the College. He is a former MP and Unive
 rsity Lecturer in Physics. Julian trained as a scientist before becoming M
 P for Cambridge between 2010 and 2015. Since leaving Parliament\, he has l
 ectured on the Master’s in Public Policy in the Department of Politics a
 nd International Studies\, University of Cambridge\, and continues to work
  and publish on a wide range of policy and ethics-related issues. @julianh
 uppert\n\n\n*Dr Claire Melamed* is an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett
  Institute for Public Policy. She is also the CEO of the Global Partnershi
 p for Sustainable Development Data - which brings together governments\, p
 rivate sector\, and civil society - to harness and leverage data and data 
 technology towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. She was pr
 eviously Managing Director of the Overseas Development Institute\, and in 
 2014\, she worked in the office of the UN Secretary General\, writing the 
 report of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution\, 
 “A World That Counts”. @clairemelamed\n\n\n*James Plunkett* has spent 
 his career thinking laterally about the complicated relationships between 
 individuals and the state. First as an advisor to Gordon Brown\, then a le
 ading economic researcher and writer\, and then in the charity sector\, he
 lping people struggling at the front-line of economic change. James combin
 es a deep understanding of social issues with an appreciation of how chang
 e is playing out not in the ivory tower\, but in the reality of people’s
  lives. James' first book is End State. @jamestplunkett\n\n\n*Dr Jeni Tenn
 ison OBE* is the founder of Connected by data\, an initiative that aims to
  put community at the heart of data narratives\, practices and policies. S
 he is the co-chair of the Data Governance Working Group at the Global Part
 nership on AI and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow. As an Affiliated Resea
 rcher at the Bennett Institute\, she is examining the practice and public 
 policy behind data governance\, and in particular the role of collective d
 ata governance. @JeniT\n\n
LOCATION:Online
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