On this special International Women's Day episode we are joined by our DDI colleagues: Helen Dundas, Ruth Donnelly, Gemma Cassells and Alison Muckersie. This discussion is a snap shot of their roles within DDI and their upcoming projects and challenges. To find out more visit ddi.ac.uk. 

Women in Data lead, Poppy Gerrard-Abbott, sits down with author and economist Dr Allison Schrager to discuss her book on our everyday relationship with risk and whether we are setting the right objectives when it comes to change. 

East is east and west is west: what can we learn from different data approaches to Covid-19?

Interview with Rainer Kattel, University College London. Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. 

From the 'free-tech' approach of Silicon Valley to strong state control in China, what have the very different approaches to data and Covid-19 taught us? And should the west be more open-minded to the response from the far east, which led to far lower death rates?

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Data, emerging technologies and the human character during a pandemic. 

Impact of greater consumption of emerging technologies - particularly those involving automation and artificial intelligence - and data/new social media on human beings. Fusing technology and ethics - to shape a future worth wanting, and how social media is damaging our ability to understand ourselves.

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Interview with Jamie Barlett, author of The People Vs Tech How the internet is killing democracy (and how we save it) and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at think-tank Demos. Why the march of technology threatens democracy, and the upcoming US presidential elections.

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On this episode: Data and better public services: adding value, not just noise.

Interview by David Lee with Albert King, Chief Data Officer for Scotland.

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On this episode:  Innovation through social capital: will Covid-19 change the way we interact?

Interview by David Lee with Alex Pentland, author of Social Physics – how good ideas spread, lessons from a new science.

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