Podcast Državljan D

Hans de Zwart is a lecturer and researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and he recently started a project Racism and technology. He was the Executive Director of the Dutch digital civil rights organisation Bits of Freedom, fighting for freedom of communication and privacy on the internet. In the past he was Shell’s Senior Innovation Adviser for Global HR and Learning Technologie...

To wrap up 2020, we head to Belgrade and talk to Danilo Krivokapić, the director of the NGO Share Foundation that recently started to raise awarness about the biometric surveillance. The project #hiljadekamera focuses on the issue of biometric surveillance cameras network that is spreading through-out the capital of Serbia in cooperation between the Huwaei corporation and the local authorities. Wh...

We’re talking to dr. Ilia Siatitsa and Caitlin Bishop from Privacy International on the topic of Palantir’s march onto European union and the issues of private-public partnerships in the field of big data. Dr Ilia Siatitsa focuses on Privacy International research, advocacy and litigation on surveillance and technology. She leads their project challenging mass surveillance to protect c...

We’re talking with Valentina Pavel , legal researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute – an independent UK-based research and deliberative body with a remit to ensure that data and AI work for people and society. She is also part of ApTI Romania , a digital rights NGO, member of a network of 42 organisations present in Brussels as European Digital Rights. The topic – data ownership in the...

“It’s a bubble!” are the words that scare most industries. So far, the internet ad industry lauded itself with the claims of universal potential and expansion, avoid rumours of its doom, but times are changing. We sat down with Tim Hwang , writer and researcher, former director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, $26M philanthropic fund and research effort...

A special edition of Citizen D podcast takes you behind the scenes of a privacy crisis brewing on Lesbos island with the potential global impact. We are talking to Petra Molnar , a lawyer and researcher specializing in migration, technology, and human rights and Kenya-Jade Pinto , an Indo-Kenyan/Canadian documentary photographer, filmmaker, and lawyer based out of Toronto. Watching the watchers, w...

We sat down with Daniel Leufer , Europe policy Analyst at Access Now and a Mozilla Fellow focusing on the myths around artificial intelligence and the political dicussion shaped by them. Daniel’s project AI Myths dismantles harmful misconceptions about AI, from superintelligence to objectivity. Whether it’s claims about AI revolutionizing the insurance industry or enabling Orwellian ma...

© Marion Kotlarski Description: The curent coronavirus pandemic is only speeding up the trends of surveillance society which were already in place. We sat down with Nicolas Keyser-Bril, an investigator with the AlgorithmWatch NGO, which is focusing on researching the influence and impact of algorithmic computing in everyday life to talk about the surveillance solutionism, the problems with coronav...

Description: Disinformation is all around us! This month we are talking to Lauren Hamm from EU DisinfoLab , which is focusing on analysing and deconstructing propaganda campaigns in the EU and making policy recommendations to the decision makers. We tackle the issue of joint responsibility, the problem of so-called “neutral intermediaries” and the reasons behind the uptick of propagand...

Opis epizode: Z današnjo sogovornico in sogovornikom bi se morali srečati v živo, pa smo morali zaradi najbolj očitnega razloga srečanje odpovedati. Vseeno smo o sprejemanju nove uredbe o e-zasebnosti posneli epizodo podcasta Državljan D, v kateri opozarjamo na probleme z besedilom uredbe in katastrofalnim vplivom na našo zasebnost, če bo sprejeta v trenutni obliki. O uredbi v sedanji obliki se je...

Opis epizode: Tokrat se pogovarjamo z doktorsko študentko Nino Pejič, mlado raziskovalko na Centru za mednarodne odnose, Fakulteta za družbene vede, ki se specializira na področje Vzhodne Azije oz. bolj specifično Kitajske. Pogovor je tekel o razlikah med kitajsko, ameriško in evropsko informacijsko družbo, vplivu Kitajcev na ostali dve družbi in dolgotrajnih posledicah kitajske ekspanzije na celo...

Opis epizode: Po katastrofalnem posvetu na ministrstvu za javno upravo, kjer je minister izenačil teoretike zarot z znanstveniki, smo se z dr. Sašo Dolencem pogovarjali o problemu vloge in položaju znanosti v današnji družbi. Prejemnika nagrade komunikator znanosti 2019, pisatelja, govorca in popularizatorja znanosti Sašo Dolenca smo vprašali o razlogih za aktualno stanje, deljeni odgovornosti med...

Opis epizode: V novo leto zakorakajmo s tehnologijami prepoznavanja obrazov. Če smo se lansko leto na srečanju različnih strok o izzivih pogovarjali bolj ali manj skozi prizmo teorije in drugih držav, lahko v letu 2020 ugotavljamo, da Slovenija ni imuna na valove razvoja, ki tudi k nam prinašajo tisoč in eno implementacijo tehnologij prepoznavanja obrazov. O tehnološki plati, družbenih posledicah...

Opis epizode: Za zaključek leta se z Barbaro Rajgelj pogovarjamo o aktivizmu v informacijski dobi. Je aktivistom lažje ali težje, kaj sploh je aktivizem in kaj “normalna” državljanska odgovornost, kakšne so razmere na slovenskem področju zagovorništva? Pogovor je tekel tudi o (ne)primernem načinu financiranju nevladnih organizacij kot podaljšku etablirane politike, izjemah na tem podro...

Description: We’re in Amsterdam, attending the Moneylab 7 conference and with us is the assistant professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, Lana Swartz . The topic of todays episode spans from Facebook’s Libra failure to the way technologies create new problems in a society while offering techno-solutions to social problems. We also talk about the dangers of boring tech...

Opis epizode: Ker imata oktobra rojstni dan tako organizacija kot njen direktor, smo tokrat Domna Saviča postavili v vlogo intervjuvanca, ki odgovarja na vprašanja preiskovalnega novinarja. O delu in liku, o preklinjanju, o informacijski družbi, o inspiraciji in o najboljšem komadu Bruca Willisa. Pa tudi o razlogih za nastanek zavoda, rezultatih dela prvih štirih let obstoja in načrtov za prihodno...

Foto: Jaka Gaser / Dnevnik Description: The urban life is constantly changing. New ways of using city infrastructure is shaped by technologies and services but also other social trends like types of employement. After the initial success story, AirBnB service got in some hot water. Several European cities banded together against this rental service, stating the AirBnB is hurting the urban developm...

Description: “What do you do?” is one of the most common conversation starters when we meet new people. Work is very often the core of our identity. Moreover, work is one of the critical building blocks of contemporary society. However, today, work is not working (well) for many of us. Burnout, automation of work, gender inequalities, the explosion of precarious workers are just some of the worryi...

25.05.2019 Ljubljana, Lista povežimo se. Portreti kandidatov na listi. Vse je kampanja in kampanja je vse! V zadnjem delu posebne izdaje podcasta “Državljan D gre na volitve” se pogovarjamo z nosilko liste “Povežimo se” Uršo Zgojznik in drugim na listi, podpredsednikom Piratske stranke, Boštjanom Tavčarjem. Kaj imata skupnega internet in okolje? Udeležba na evropskih volitv...

Myleen Hollero / Wikimedia Foundation / Cc-by-sa-3.0 Description: Visiting Ljubljana to give a talk on the Open Knowledge Day , we caught up with Jan Gerlach , senior public policy manager at the Wikimedia foundation. We talked about the ever-changing face of the digital environment, the role different actors play in different scenarios and the current developments related to the copyright directi...

25.05.2019 Ljubljana, Lista povežimo se. Portreti kandidatov na listi. Vse je kampanja in kampanja je vse! V drugem posebne izdaje podcasta “Državljan D gre na volitve” se pogovarjamo z nosilko liste “Povežimo se” Uršo Zgojznik in nadaljujemo debato o volitvah z vprašanjem: Zakaj sploh iti na volitve? Udeležba na evropskih volitvah je praviloma slaba, kampanja dolgočasna, v...

Vse je kampanja in kampanja je vse! V prvem delu posebne izdaje podcasta “Državljan D gre na volitve” se pogovarjamo z nosilko liste “Povežimo se” Uršo Zgojznik, ki prihaja iz vrst ekologov. Po desetih letih vodenja organizacije Ekologi brez meja se je na letošnje evropske volitve podala z neodvisno večstrankarsko listo Povežimo se, opozarja pa na nujnost zavedanja o okoljs...

Description: We sat down with Joana Moll, co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR [Barcelona] and co-founder of The Institute for the Advancement of Popular Automatisms. Her work critically explores the way post-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. Her main research topics include Internet materiality, surveillance, soc...

Description: We sat down with James Bridle who was visiting Ljubljana to give a talk at the Aksioma gallery to talk about the evergrowing problem of technodeterminism and the way future is being predicted by the machines. What’s the role of humanities in the information society, how do we integrate our future generations and how the myth of the neutral and objective machine came about? We al...

Opis epizode: Zakaj se je o sovražnem govoru tako težko pogovarjati in zakaj se moramo? Kakšne so posledice ignorance in kakšne tolerance sovražnega govora v družbi, zakaj smo debato v neki točki prepustili pravnikom in kaj lahko naredimo sami? Z raziskovalko Mirovnega inštituta dr. Veroniko Bajt tudi o problemu posrednikov vsebin, medijski reprezentaciji in tebi. Glasba: Forget These Postures Meg...