Tech & Society Debate: “The right to be judged by humans”
Aspen Institute España, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, hosted last May, 11 at 2.00 pm the first session of the VII Edition of the Tech & Society Program with Michael Ignatieff, Canadian essayist, academic and former politician, and author of “On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times”, among others. The debate, moderated by Santiago Liniers, director of Programs of Aspen Institute España, brought together 30 participants from the public sector, business, media, and academia.
Michael Ignatieff
Is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior’s Honour, as well as sixteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album and the Booker finalist Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Fresh Air and Fareed Zakariah GPS. Former head of Canada’s Liberal Party and director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard’s Kennedy School, he is currently the president of Central European University in Budapest.
VII Edition of the Tech & Society Program
Aspen Institute España and Fundación Telefónica launched the VII Edition of the Tech & Society Program. The VI edition will bring together leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss the new technological challenges and their influence in areas as diverse as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics and medicine
Tech & Society Program has become the main forum in Spain for reflection on the major issues raised by advances in digital technologies. The fifth edition will gather different leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss the new technological challenges and their influence in areas as diverse as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics and medicine.
Leigh Hafrey, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Sandy Parakilas, Chief Strategy Officer for the Center for Humane Technology, who recently appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Social Media Dilemma”, Cathy O’Neil, author of , Beth Noveck, director of The Gov Lab and professor in the Technology, Culture, and Society department at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, and who led the Obama Administration’s Open Government Initiative, are some of the speakers who have participated as speakers through the Tech & Society Program throughout its different editions.
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