What are the challenges to understanding algorithms?
If we hope to curb automated bias and algorithmic negative externalities, then we must confront the present challenges of knowing algorithms, recognizing them as opaque,…
This App is not for you: a summary of the presentation event
On the 5th of June we presented the results of the research This App is not for you: Bias and externalities in police/community interaction tools.…
This App is not for you: presentación y debate online (5 JUN 16h)
The police in Catalonia are increasingly adopting and implementing new technologies, such as apps, social networks, mobiles, tablets, drones, mobile video cameras and CCTV. In…
Digital rights in the labour world
What is the impact, from the labour rights perspective, of using new digital technologies in the workplace? How automated systems affect workers? This is a…
Barcelona Data Commons network
We are a network of different actors gathered to empower actions and projects (methodologies, pilots, research, tools and materials) related with data commons, preferably in…
Conference: Trade unions facing technological challenges
One week ago we presented together with Fundación COTEC and Comisiones Obreras our report “Trade Unions, Labour rights and Technological Change”. As a culmination of…
We go to the MyData Barcelona Meetup: GDPR a year later
MyData BCN invite us to participate in their next event! It will be on Friday 24th May 2019, you can register here On May 25,…
Subjective insecurities
Objective insecurity is related to the criminal phenomena that affect the population, while subjective insecurity concerns citizens’ opinions on matters such as the level of…
Engineering students invite us to L’Altre Fòrum 2019!
We have been proposed to talk about Big Data and proposals on how we can democratize it. L'Altre is an association of students from the…
Exercising access rights in Spain
By launching a brief ethnographic study, we wanted to explain the experiences of exercising the right of access to personal data in Spain. First, by…
Meeting with entities to present Raval Data Commons
Sou una entitatAre you a social entity from Raval that works offering services and doing activities for the neighborhood? We have a proposal for you!…
Problems caused by the bad application of Big Data question the use that is being given to this technology
The entity specialized in social impact of technology Eticas Foundation has warned about the consequences and impacts that the incorporation of erroneous, corrupt and incomplete…
