Authoritarian Tech Is On the Rise | Opinion Raphael Tsavkko Garcia
, journalist On 4/28/21 at 8:00 AM EDT
Life in a refugee camp is an unimaginable horror.
It s the reality of thousands of people who fled war-torn countries, poverty, hunger and sometimes death. Greek refugee camps are often overpopulated, with scarce access to water, heat, food, or toilets, set up over contaminated soil. They are the closest thing to hell on Earth.
The pandemic worsened camps on several fronts. There has been a serious uptick in surveillance technologies administered to refugees since the pandemic started. Not only are refugees detained in inhumane conditions, but they are also subjected to strict surveillance inside and outside the camps, serving as guinea pigs for authoritarian technologies that are then used on the general population.
Big Tech s Digital Book Burning Threatens a Free and Open Society | Opinion Helen Raleigh
, Entrepreneur, writer and speaker On 3/17/21 at 6:00 AM EDT
John Milton s warning that he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself rings especially true today as we witness Amazon and other big tech companies using their enormous market power to effectively ban certain books.
Based on my own experience, I used to believe that Amazon was a great enabler of new ideas. In 2014, when I completed my autobiography
Confucius Never Said, I followed the traditional book publishing route and contacted 30 literary agents who specialize in biographies. Only one agent rejected my manuscript after reading it. The other 29 declined to take my book without even reading the manuscript. Interestingly, more than 80 percent of literary agents listed on agentquery.com, including all 30 I contacted, are located in New York City. This small group of cultural gatekeepers, likely sharin
Pendo CEO Todd Olson Turns Pandemic into Possibilities, Reinvents Digital Communication in Businesses, Schools
On 3/8/21 at 1:56 PM EST The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger but recognize the opportunity.
This quote from President John F. Kennedy could well be applied to CEO Todd Olson and his company, Pendo.
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated many U.S. industries, but speeded the transition to the digital economy and Pendo took full advantage of the opportunity.
Pendo CEO Todd Olson
The Raleigh, North Carolina-based information technology services company provides step-by-step guides to help workers master new software packages. Pendo s software is designed to boost employee proficiency through personalized training and automated support.