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3 min Read on Social Venture Capitals

27 July 2019
Our generation thinks intensively about the social, environmental and economic impact of their labor. According to Financial Times research, one-third of the youngsters joining the workforce want to know where their effort goes to. In the times of immense ecological deprivation, increasing economic gap and downfall of social conditions in the developing work, businesses that benefit BoP (bottom of…
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21. Century Zeitgeist

No More Factory Model for Universities!

23 June 2019
203 universities, 160.000 working academicians, 8M enrolled students. That is the summary of Turkish higher education scene. The important question here is: What is the cumulative impact created by the graduates of these universities? When we exclude top 10 universities…
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What Do We Do with Big Tech Companies?

21 May 2019
Not a day goes by without someone propounding another genius theory to finally bring an end to the pain point of what we are going to do with these platform businesses, large digital companies. They even take it to the extreme by suggesting that we do not even need social media, since the harm it does overrides any good it may be serving. In my last article, I have tried to touch upon the various…
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An Antitrust Dilemma: Should We Break Them Up / Open

7 May 2019
We all heard of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal as to how we should be dealing with the large digital companies: “Break up or break open!”  Running for president of the United States, Warren proposed using the antitrust laws to do just that. Her proposal must have…
21. Century Zeitgeist

A Short Summary of Zuck’s Interview with Harari : ‘’What the heck, I scored on my own net.’’

28 April 2019
‘’Wait a second.. I think I scored on my own net…’’  I am pretty sure this is nothing but the thoughts of Zuck when hosting the Israeli academic Harari for the so called PR series of discussions on the future of technology and society that Facebook initiated as if Zuck cares about the potential disruptions of internet on humanity more than his monthly recurring ad revenue. No need for…
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Freedom of Speech vs. the Fate of Liberal Democracy

22 April 2019
Discussions regarding the need to regulate social media platforms and their contents escalated with the horrific shooting in the city of Christchurch. It is not that many countries, spearheaded by the European Union have not already covered a great distance on the matter…
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Privacy Challenges of Disruptive Technologies

2 April 2019
“In October (2018), Ann Cavoukian, the Director of Privacy for Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs smart neighborhood project in Toronto (an advanced smart city project) resigned after learning that not all data collected from residents would be de-identified at the source. In her resignation letter, Cavoukian likened the project to a “smart city of surveillance,” highlighting privacy concerns…
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