Seminars on Digital Technology
Prof. Gordon Blair
Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK
Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario
Research Fellow, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK
DEIB - Conference Room
July 13th, 2016
2.00 pm
Contact:
Barbara Pernici
Research Line:
Information systems
Distinguished Professor of Distributed Systems, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK
Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario
Research Fellow, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, UK
DEIB - Conference Room
July 13th, 2016
2.00 pm
Contact:
Barbara Pernici
Research Line:
Information systems
Sommario
On July 13th, 2016 two seminars on Digital Technology will be held in the DEIB Conference Room.
Prof. Gordon Blair will give a talk about "Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change" in the first part of this event.
The second talk will be held by Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and will focus on "Digital Technology in Society: Agility, Uncertainties and Responsibilities".
Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change
Digital technologies have a crucial role to play in helping scientists and other key stakeholders to more deeply understand the natural environment and its complex web of interconnected ecosystems. This deeper understanding also supports the development of more grounded mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to environmental change. Technology is having a profound impact on the digital economy and many areas of society, but its role in managing environmental change is significantly under-developed. This talk will focus on three major (and complementary) areas of digital innovation, namely the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and data science: IoT has the potential to provide rich, real-time data about many facets of the natural environment at a scale previously unimaginable; cloud computing offers elastic storage and computational capacity to bring together diverse data-sets from different geographical locations and at different scales and open this up to a range of stakeholders; data science provides an abundance of analysis techniques to then make sense of the data and hence to inform mitigation strategies and associated policies. The talk will also focus on the impact that such technologies can have on science towards an approach that is more open, collaborative and integrative and that addresses complexity and uncertainty as key concerns.
Digital Technology in Society: Agility, Uncertainties and Responsibilities
The realization that Digital Technology (DT) has a far reaching impact on the social, political, economic and the environmental aspect of society is not new. However, only recently its impact has been explicitly described as `systemic' and framed around complex societal challenges such as sustainability, health and civic participation. DT in Society specifically investigates approaches, develops tools and reflects on the role of software and digital innovation in addressing, adapting to or mitigating complex societal issues such as public safety, climate change, and health care. During this short talk, I will introduce some of the opportunities and the challenges of DT in Society research through a number of case studies in different domains. I will share lessons learned from working in agile research partnerships with the public organisations, the third sector, and hard to reach groups, to include the homeless, small island communities, and people diagnosed with autism.
Prof. Gordon Blair will give a talk about "Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change" in the first part of this event.
The second talk will be held by Dr. Maria Angela Ferrario and will focus on "Digital Technology in Society: Agility, Uncertainties and Responsibilities".
Digital Technology and Living with Environmental Change
Digital technologies have a crucial role to play in helping scientists and other key stakeholders to more deeply understand the natural environment and its complex web of interconnected ecosystems. This deeper understanding also supports the development of more grounded mitigation and adaptation strategies in response to environmental change. Technology is having a profound impact on the digital economy and many areas of society, but its role in managing environmental change is significantly under-developed. This talk will focus on three major (and complementary) areas of digital innovation, namely the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and data science: IoT has the potential to provide rich, real-time data about many facets of the natural environment at a scale previously unimaginable; cloud computing offers elastic storage and computational capacity to bring together diverse data-sets from different geographical locations and at different scales and open this up to a range of stakeholders; data science provides an abundance of analysis techniques to then make sense of the data and hence to inform mitigation strategies and associated policies. The talk will also focus on the impact that such technologies can have on science towards an approach that is more open, collaborative and integrative and that addresses complexity and uncertainty as key concerns.
Digital Technology in Society: Agility, Uncertainties and Responsibilities
The realization that Digital Technology (DT) has a far reaching impact on the social, political, economic and the environmental aspect of society is not new. However, only recently its impact has been explicitly described as `systemic' and framed around complex societal challenges such as sustainability, health and civic participation. DT in Society specifically investigates approaches, develops tools and reflects on the role of software and digital innovation in addressing, adapting to or mitigating complex societal issues such as public safety, climate change, and health care. During this short talk, I will introduce some of the opportunities and the challenges of DT in Society research through a number of case studies in different domains. I will share lessons learned from working in agile research partnerships with the public organisations, the third sector, and hard to reach groups, to include the homeless, small island communities, and people diagnosed with autism.
