Data, Tech & Black Communities

Schools minister Lotta Edholm moves students off digital devices and on to books and handwriting, with teachers and experts debating the pros and cons

Education technology powered by artificial intelligence appears to make classrooms more equitable, but the tech may do more harm than good.

Senate inquiry into Australian consultancy industry concedes its integrity has been undermined by reliance on case studies generated by Google Bard AI tool

Hundreds of documents obtained by 404 Media show how Fusus, a system for linking a town’s security cameras into one central hub and adding AI to them, has spread across the country.

This review sets out the findings from our cross-Financial Services change management review which looked at how financial firms manage technology change, the impact of change failures and the practices utilised within the industry to help reduce the impact of incidents resulting from change management.

Four critical questions parents and educators should be asking

Technology is reshaping our increasingly interconnected world. The use of technology in education has been growing in recent years, and saw an immense expansion during the Covid-19 pandemic as school closures promoted a mass turn to online platforms. Technology in education - often described as EdTech - takes many forms.

Saying “The vibes are off” no longer cuts it, if it ever really did. Twitter is broken/has been broken/was broken/perhaps has always been broken, but more people than before seem to be draped in mo…

A report questions the language used for some checks, including assessing whether the baby is "pink all over".

Plans to use face recognition technology at public events raise issues about civil liberties.

The European Commission has called on online platforms to detect and label AI-generated content to tackle disinformation. Can the EU keep pace with tech developments?

The European Commission has called on online platforms to detect and label AI-generated content to tackle disinformation. Can the EU keep pace with tech developments?

In their new book, MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue that society’s powerful gatekeepers need to stop being mesmerized by tech billionaires.

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

“As with many industries, there are areas of the sector that remain very male-orientated. Whilst this offers an opportunity for women to disrupt and really make a difference, they can’t do so if they’re not in the room.” Google Cloud’s UKI MD Helen Kelisky shares her career journey to date, and what can be done to encourage more women into tech.

Cloud services have been used by tech companies for many years, but it’s not the only way. Hear why 37signals is making the decision to go in another direction.

February's Digital Future's event focused on the topic of Monetisation of Data, and saw guest speakers, Dr Liza Lovdahl-Gormsen of the British…

During 2022 the data protection authorities in several EU countries have published decisions banning the use of Google Analytics (GA). The Austrian…

The tech industry is having a moment to say the least. There are tens of thousands of people who worked at brand name, "secure" tech jobs that are out of work.

Plus leaked stripe results, India and Singapore link payment systems and why you should never outsource your ledger to your payments processor.

Update on the ICO's enforcement approach for communication service providers The ICO published an update on 2 February 2023 to clarify its position…

What you might not know about us here at Deloitte is although we are more well known for supporting large organisations, we also have a long history…

Our contribution to the discussion on how to pay remote employees.

In recent times, the so-called Big Data collection and analytics has profoundly changed the way of doing business, making their use almost essential…

As layoffs in the tech sector mount, Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer is worried. Research – by him, and others – has shown that the stress layoffs create takes a devastating toll on behavioral and physical health and increases mortality and morbidity substantially. Layoffs literally kill people, he said.

This essay originally ran in August of 2015. This “classic” is one of the most popular issues and has received a lot of comments, so thought we would share it again as a reminder to us all. Talk is constant and pretty “cheap” these days. Anyone, anywhere, anytime can post a comment on the many social media sites and talk, talk, talk. There are over 500 million tweets each day on Twitter [...]

Goodhart's Law is useless. It tells you about a phenomenon, but it doesn't tell you how to solve it. We look at how organisations actually prevent Goodhart's Law, and illustrate this with Amazon's Weekly Business Review as an example.

Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s “fiscal event” last September was widely perceived as a disaster, but at its heart was a kernel of undoubted truth: there are