Digital Equity and Individual Rights in the Age of Big Data
Speakers
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Data Editor, The Economist
Kenneth Cukier is the Data Editor of The Economist in London, after a decade at the paper as a business and technology writer, and foreign correspondent (most recently in Tokyo from 2007-2012). He is the co-author of the book "Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think" with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger in 2013, which was a New York Times Bestseller and translated into 20 languages. From 2002 to 2004 Mr. Cukier was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's advisory council on data-driven development. Mr. Cukier serves on the board of directors of International Bridges to Justice, a Geneva-based NGO promoting legal rights in developing countries. Additionally, he is on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Chief Scientist, UN Global Pulse
Miguel is Chief Scientist at UN Global Pulse, an innovation initiative at the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, harnessing Big Data for global development. He leads the data science team across the network of Global Pulse Labs in New York, Jakarta and Kampala which provide "innovation as a service" - developing Big Data projects together with UN system partners. Miguel is the founding director of MalariaSpot.org- videogames and crowdsourcing for diagnosis of malaria and other global health diseases, based at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. As an antidisciplinary scientist, over the last 10 years, he has been working on innovative projects at the crossroads of international development, social innovation, global health and systems biology with data science. Miguel is Ashoka fellow (2013) and GSP10 from Singularity University at NASA. He obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering, MSc in cognitive sciences and MSc in telecommunications engineering.
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Dr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist, CEO of Pandefense Advisory, senior advisor at the Skoll Foundation and a CNN Medical Analyst. Previously on the boards of the Skoll Foundation and the NGO Ending Pandemics; president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund; vice president of Google, and founding executive director of Google.org. He co-founded the Seva Foundation. Earlier, he co-founded The Well, a progenitor of today's social media platforms. He was an associate professor of epidemiology and international health planning at the University of Michigan. He lived in India for nearly a decade where he was a key member of the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme for SE Asia as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He was the founding chairman of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS); member of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk; and a "First Responder" for CDC's bio-terrorism response effort. He is also an author.
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Founder/former CEO, Benetech, and Founder/CEO, Tech Matters,
BenetechJim is a serial tech and social entrepreneur who founded Tech Matters in 2018 to advance large-scale social impact using software and data. Jim and his team have created two new nonprofit tech enterprises, while also helping social good leaders on tech challenges. Aselo is designed to take crisis response helplines from the telephone era to the social media era, helping them better respond to the urgent needs of those in crisis. Terraso is a tech platform to being tools, knowledge and funding to community leaders building more regenerative local economies against the backdrop of the climate crisis.
Prior to founding Tech Matters, Jim was the founder and CEO of Benetech for nearly 30 years, delivering large-scale change in partnership with hundreds of organizations as part of social enterprises addressing education, disability, human rights, and the environment.
Jim is a MacArthur Fellow, a Skoll Awardee, and a Distinguished Alumnus of Caltech.
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Head of Special Projects, BBC World Service Group
Emily Kasriel is an experienced media executive who has been leading a range of high-profile projects for the BBC including developing the flagship Share Your Story for the BBC Centenary in 2022 and the BBC Crossing Divides season. She has a particular interest in Deep Listening, researching the field as a Practitioner in Residence at the London School of Economics and publishing her research in the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Emily is also an Executive Coach and serves on the board of The Wingate Foundation. She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has written for a number of major publications and chairs a wide range of panels, events and interviews around the world.
