Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder is one of Sweden’s leading experts on information and IT security. In 2013 Anne-Marie was the first Swede to be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. For almost 20 years she was the Chief Information Security Officer at The Swedish Internet Foundation. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of her own company Amelsec.
Our international outreach efforts have been steaming ahead in recent months, with a particular focus on Africa, Latin America and The Middle East.
Our CEO John Marshall spoke about Collaboration and Partnerships on Open Data at The Saudi Data Forum and we’ve been delighted by the support we’ve had from our international collaborators. This good work has resulted in over 12,000 new members joining the Forum, our free and protected social platform that hosts a global community of passionate data-scientists, developers, thinkers, artists and beyond.
Ahead of the World Ethical Data Forum on 26-28 October, WEDF has strengthened its advisory board with three key appointments.
Prominent tech activist Cory Doctorow, tech policy specialist Raegan MacDonald and information security expert Anne-Marie Eklund-Löwinder will offer invaluable guidance across the full range of WEDF’s work.
Francesca Rossi is an IBM Fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader.
She is based at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York, USA, where she leads AI research projects.
She co-chairs the IBM AI Ethics board and she participates in many global multi-stakeholder initiatives on AI ethics, such as the Partnership on AI, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations ITU AI for Good Summit, and the Global Partnership on AI.
She is the president of AAAI, the world-wide association of AI researchers.
War in Ukraine. Looming global recession (another one). Covid-19 aftershocks. Shrinking press freedoms. Climate change.
Today’s world-changing events have a common thread. They – and their outcomes – are being shaped by data-driven technologies.
Daniel J. Solove is the John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. He is also the founder of TeachPrivacy, a company that provides privacy and data security training programs to businesses, law firms, healthcare institutions, schools, and other organizations. One of the world’s leading experts in privacy law, Solove is the author of 10+ books and textbooks and 50+ articles. His most recent book is BREACHED!: WHY DATA SECURITY LAW FAILS AND HOW TO IMPROVE IT (Oxford University Press, March 2022) (with Woodrow Hartzog).
Isabela Fernandes is the Executive Director of the Tor Project since November 2018. She joined the Tor Project as Project Manager in 2015, after working as Product Manager for International and Growth at Twitter for four years. Isabela has been part of the free software community since the late 90s, and in 2007 she co-founded and worked as Latin America Project Manager for North by South, a startup from San Francisco focused on free software projects.
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people.
Technology shapes the world. The more successful a new technology becomes, the more reliant we will become on it. This has always happened and will continue to happen in the future too. In many ways, the Internet is both the best and worst innovation of our lifetime. How did we get here? Where will we go next? Join global cybersecurity expert Mikko Hyppönen as he addresses the State of the Net.
On September 11, 2001 the terrorist group known as Al Qaeda carried out a series of attacks against the United States causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The 9/11 attacks shocked the world as the US, once seen as an untouchable power, were left feeling the darker consequences of a globalised world.
“A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies if we are going to be successful”
- Dick Cheney, Former US VP under Bush