Digital Democracy

Twitter owner Elon Musk, interviewed by the BBC early on April 12, said that he was likely to comply with the blocking orders issued by the Indian government instead of facing a situation where Twitter employees were being sent to jail.

https://thewire.in/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-india-it-rules 

12/04/2023

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer. The boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs. 

in 2018, the special rapporteur to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council issued a 20-page report ( https://freedex.org/a-human-rights-approach-to-platform-content-regulation/  ) noting that social media companies “must embark on radically different approaches to transparency at all stages of their operations, from rule-making to implementation and development of “case law” framing the interpretation of private rules.”

WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 reveals a net increase of 78 million jobs by 2030 and unprecedented demand for technology and GenAI skills   https://blog.coursera.org/wef-future-of-jobs-report-2025/

Half of employers plan to re-orient their business in response to AI
80% plan to upskill workers with AI training and two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills, while only 40% plan to reduce their workforce as AI automates certain tasks.  
85% of employers plan to upskill their workforce in response to growing skills gaps – with half of businesses planning to transition staff into growing roles.