Hadooponomics

This week's episode of Hadooponomics features well-known techno-ethicist Emer Coleman. Emer is the Chair of Ireland's Open Data Governance Board, a frequent speaker, and a respected advocate for gender equality in the world of technology. Having Emer on the show let us take the podcast into uncharted territories. We navigated the discussion around the uneven socio-economic benefits associated with technology and posed questions as to why we should be designing our future with great care. We start the interview with a conversation around data privacy and the merits of whether or not we should regulate the algorithms that tech giants use to influence our every day experiences (such as Google search results and the Facebook newsfeed). From there, Emer proposes that we should start thinking about the merits of ethics training for the data scientists and software engineers that are building the digital world. I'll admit, I was skeptical of this argument, but Emer's points were enough to force me to reconsider. We