Activities

This page includes Medium Articles, Academic/Research Articles, Podcasts, Recorded Conferences, Interviews and more:

 Medium article series (sponsored by Omidyar Network):

-- Article One (the systemic challenges) (June 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/new-days-new-paradigms-covid-19-and-pathways-to-our-digital-empowerment-3b57aa357e2b

-- Article Two (fiduciary roots of empowerment) (July 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/a-human-centered-paradigm-for-the-web-640b8ebf86ef

-- Article Three (digital fiduciaries and Personal AIs) (August 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/a-human-centered-paradigm-for-the-web-e7ceaee8fb0e

-- Article Four (Dr. John Snow and health data trusts) (September 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/a-human-centered-paradigm-for-the-web-27ae40159778

-- Article Five (Sidewalk Labs in Toronto and digital communities) (October 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/from-thurii-to-quayside-creating-inclusive-digital-communities-348cde93215f

-- Article Six (digital lifestreams) (with Todd Kelsey) (November 2020): https://medium.com/swlh/digital-lifestreams-reclaiming-our-online-identity-74228196482d

-- Article Seven (new infrastructure) (with Todd Kelsey) (December 2020): https://whitt.medium.com/new-infrastructure-a-way-forward-for-digital-mediaries-and-data-empowerment-594d004354b6

Other Medium articles on related topics:

--"The Internet's Untapped Potential: Digital Stewardship” (July 2020): https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/the-internets-untapped-potential-4d16b5107a50

-- “Unleashing the Power of Cryptodata” (September 2020): https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/unleashing-the-potential-of-cryptodata-4707c86ada39

-- “Secure Data Tokenization” (November 2020): https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/secure-data-tokenization-7b730357b03e

Academic and research articles:

-- “Hacking the SEAMs: Elevating Digital Autonomy and Agency for Humans” (December 2020): tbd

-- “Blockchain 3.0 – Secure Data Tokenization: A Primer and White Paper (with Luca Cosentino) (November 2020):   https://docsend.com/view/isrhqk352adykdpz

-- “From Thurii to Quayside: Creating Inclusive Blended Spaces in Digital Communities”

       (WORKING DRAFT) (October 2020): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3709111

-- "Making AI Work for Humans," (July, 2020). https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/insights/perspective/making-ai-work-for-humans/

-- “Digital Stewardship: An Introductory White Paper” (July 2020): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3669911

-- “Old School Goes Online” (February 2020): https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/chtlj/vol36/iss1/3/

-- “Democratizing AI: Ensuring human autonomy over our computational ‘screens, scenes, and unseens’” (July 2019; assembled and edited January 2020): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3669909

Podcasts:

-- Ambition Data, “The right of customer data privacy” (November 2020): https://www.ambitiondata.com/podcast/ep-128-customer-data-privacy-who-has-the-right-to-use-it-with-richard-whitt/

-- CodeX at Stanford, Episode 8: “Don't be Evil” (September 2020): https://soundcloud.com/user-577089511/dont-be-evil-data-access-and-the-new-internet-with-richard-whitt?in=user-577089511/sets/our-data-by-regtrax

-- Luxury Institute, “The Highly Profitable Journey from Privileged Access to Advanced Personalization” (with Luxury Institute’s Milton Pedraza and digi.me’s Julian Ranger) (June 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGcWhlq1MxE&feature=youtu.be

-- Not Simple, “Human Agency in the Digital Era” (January 2020): https://notsimple.libsyn.com/richard-whitt-human-agency-in-the-digital-era

Conferences (recorded):

Responsible Data Summit, “Responsible Data Summit Panel” (July 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmtXmkFPBPI&feature=youtu.be

Responsible Data Summit, “Hacking the SEAMs” (keynote) (July 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNZxwxYLJGc&feature=youtu.be

Interviews:

Forbes interview, with Konstanze Frischen, Ashoka: “From Surveillance to Agency: How to Center the Internet on Humanity” (July 2020): https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashoka/2020/07/23/from-surveillance-to-agency-how-to-center-the-internet-on-humanity/?sh=6a5f06696cc0

Policy Filings:

EU and AI - forthcoming