Essays about: "public debate"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 477 essays containing the words public debate.

  1. 26. Urban Planning & Governance in the Age of AI : A Study of the Potential Benefits and Risks

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)

    Author : Jonas Gummesson; [2023]
    Keywords : Accountability; AI; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Cybernetics; Engagement; Equality; Governance; Neural Networks; Participation; Power; Smart City; Systems planning.; Transparency; Trust; Urban Design; Urban Planning;

    Abstract : Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing technology which in this project refers to software that given objectives generate content, predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing their environment. Using literature reviews and semi-structured interviews, the current and future uses, sentiments, regulations, and risks of AI in urban planning and governance are gathered. READ MORE

  2. 27. Digital Services Act as a new era for platform liability - A fine thread between copyright enforcement and freedom of expression

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för handelsrätt

    Author : Raluca Olsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Digital Services Act; DSA; DSM directive; platform liability; copyright; freedom of expression; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Online platforms have gained significant economic and societal importance in the last decade; the public debate on their extending influence, responsibilities and liability has also reached unprecedented levels. Platforms entered most product and service markets and disturbed trade, information exchange and communication, by shifting the offline into the online environment; their use of existing data innovatively resulted in the adoption and delivery of a vast range of digital services. READ MORE

  3. 28. Elite Education for the People? : Nuances of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program in Polish High Schools

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Paulina Kucharska; [2023]
    Keywords : Public Education; International Baccalaureate; IB; Internationalization of Education; Educational Trajectories; Educational Strategies; Symbolic Capital;

    Abstract : The International Baccalaureate (IB), a private curriculum associated largely with exclusive education for transnationally mobile upper classes, has recently began to quietly enter public, national education systems, offering its alternative, elite schooling in tuition-free state institutions. This paper explores the nuanced case of Poland, where IB diploma program is offered as one of the tracks within state schools, existing side-by-side and competing with the national curriculum. READ MORE

  4. 29. Integrity and security discourses in three European countries' AI policies : A study in privacy, political theory and rapidly developing technology

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Bror Åhammar; [2023]
    Keywords : Artificial intellgence; New Public Mangement; practices political-parliamentary; juridical-bureaucratic; public; countries strategies; GDPR; communicative events;

    Abstract : The relatively recent developments in AI have caused a lot of discussions surrounding security and privacy, and a consistent theme throughout these discussions have been how privacy as a political and legal term have developed in response. While this isn't necessarily a new phenomenon – privacy concerns have been around since the 19th century when Warren and Brandeis published their seminal paper – the development of AI has marked a new period where privacy has become a socio-political issue. READ MORE

  5. 30. Private Digital Healthcare in Sweden : A Study of Its Emergence and Legitimization

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Sociologiska institutionen

    Author : Martin de Verdier; [2023]
    Keywords : Digital healthcare; discourse analysis; organisational legitimacy; organisational sociology;

    Abstract : In recent years there has been an exponential growth of private digital healthcare providers (or “net-doctors” as they are commonly called) in Sweden. Traditionally public healthcare in Sweden has been divided amongst the regions, but with the emergence of net-doctors came the first “national healthcare”. READ MORE