Projects
DataNet
GovTech Lab is developing a number of products – the first of which is “DataNet” – a unique approach to data infrastructure designed to capitalise on innovative new technologies and provide economies of scale across multiple different areas of society – commercial, research and societal or governmental. Building on technology economics, our principles enable the development of new, data-driven industries.
Digital Ethics Forum
The UCL Digital Ethics forum, led jointly by UCL Computer Science and UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), facilitates the intra-UCL conversation around pressing ethical challenges arising from ubiquitous data collection and increasing adoption of algorithmic decision systems in every aspect of our lives.
Latest News
Ethics and Digital Policy (UCL STEaPP)
In this blog, Dr Ine Steenmans and Prof Joanna Chataway, from the Department for Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (UCL STEaPP), offer their initial position concerning the discussions at the first UCL Digital Ethics Forum. Dr Ine Steenmans is a...
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Digital Ethics Forum (Interdisciplinarity at UCL)
On May 1st, 2019, the initial meeting of the UCL Digital Ethics Forum was held. GovTech Lab’s Dr. Zeynep Engin directed this initiative, with GovTech Lab’s Prof. Philip Treleaven, Dr. Catherine Mulligan (CTO) and Dr. Emre Kazim all in attendance and participating. The...
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Dr. Catherine Mulligan reports on her attendance at the Nordic-Baltic Security Summit (Estonia, April 2019)
I recently attended the Nordic-Baltic Security Summit in Tallinn, where I presented on two areas that I have been working on for a very long time - Data Supply Chains, blockchain and the security implications of both. I have been growing quite concerned about data...
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