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| The program of scientific thought and culture welcomes this Thursday, January 14, in a virtual event, the academic from the University of California in Davis, PhD in Communication and big data expert | The programming number 13 of Cartagena begins Think this Thursday, January 14, at 7:00 p.m., with the digital talk of Martin Hilbert, guru in social networks and digital data.
The academic from the University of California in David, doctor in Communication and expert in big data opens the acts of the program of thought and scientific culture of the City of Cartagena, under the talk 'Distancing from social networks: An opportunity to debug our relationship with our algorithms? '. Recognized for having warned about Cambridge Analytica's intervention in Donald Trump's campaign a year before the scandal broke, Hilbert has closely followed the digital effects of the coronavirus and his conclusions are little optimistic: people do not know how to deal with the power of algorithms, governments do not know how to use them in favor of the population and companies are reluctant to adopt effective ethical guidelines. With digital communication becoming the main connection during times of social distancing, many populations begin to feel that they have a toxic relationship with algorithms.
Can we take advantage of the current situation to develop a healthier relationship with our digital algorithms? Professor Hilbert maintains that there are four possible alternatives, which he will present in his conference, in which Gabriel Navarro, doctor in Psychology and member of the Grupo Promotor Cartagena Piensa and Mathieu Kessler, professor Statistics and Operational Research of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Polytechnic University of Cartagena. MARTIN HILBERT Martin Hilbert has a doctorate in Economics and Social Sciences (2006) and Communication (2012), and a professor at the University of California, being part of the Department of Communication.
Her academic research published in leading academic journals covers the fields of evolution and psychology, psychology and behavioral economics, international economic development, information science, women.
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In the applied facet, it provides practical technical assistance to heads of state, legislators, diplomats, private companies and civil society organizations in more than 20 countries. He holds a diplomatic post for life as Economic Affairs Officer of the United Nations Secretariat.
He leads the creation and execution of the Latin American and Caribbean Action Plan for the Information Society (eLAC), an intergovernmental policy agenda that is now in its fifth generation .
It pursues a multidisciplinary approach to understand the role of information in the development of complex socio-technological systems.
He is particularly interested in the effect of digitization and the algorithmics of society, and shares the knowledge gained through publications and practical technical assistance.
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