NGI Talk: The Internet of Humans

The latest NGI Talk is now available online!

ninadok 1 de diciembre de 2020
NGI Talk: The Internet of Humans

With the explosion of the Internet of Things, multimedia content and social media, the Internet offers unprecedented access to data and online services. Artificial intelligence helps to extract meaning from this data and to embed autonomy and intelligence into networks, connected objects and services. This promises to revolutionise healthcare, public services, transport, finance - to name just a few Sectors.

Yet, as technological advances upgrade what the Internet can do, there is no matching increase in the trust people place on the Internet. On the contrary, such trust, which is one of the pillars of technology acceptance, has eroded in recent years.

The latest NGI Talk was successfully organised and hosted on behalf of the NGI Community, where the NGI Community ambassador Antonio Grasso @antgrasso‍ has joined the round table with his colleague experts:

Antonio Grasso
Founder & CEO @ dbi.srl, Digital entrepreneur with a passion for knowledge translation, B2B Tech Influencer, Author & Speaker, Startups Mentor,

Antonio Santos
Co-Founder of DT Lab, CxO Adviser on digital transformation, future of work, diversity and inclusion focused on sustainability,

Mirko Ross
CEO of asvin.io, Cybersecurity Researcher, Speaker, DLT / Blockchain, Member of ENISA IoT, Security Expert Group

Kai Michael Hermsen
Global Coordinator for the Charter of Trust; Member of the Siemens Cybersecurity Board

...discussing, how redesigning the Internet can help society. They were addressing the nowadays challenges, and how to possibly solve them.

Hot-spot issues covered were:

What are the collective efforts we need in our society and economy to address cybersecurity issues?

Here, Kai Michael Hermsen brought the cybersecurity issues and trustworthy artificial intelligence, then, people factor that needs to be addressed and constantly “updated” as a very important part, along with the governance and very much needed technological fixes.

How to ensure people’s trust in connected objects (IoT)?

Mirko scratched the surface of the IoT’s SF with the connected things not only around us but within us(!).

Social media and digital inclusion, how?

Antonio Santos, being very positive about the technology, said we need to make sure we are using it in the right way, and for the right things.

Finally, they all agreed on one thing (along with many others) - these conversations are very much needed. So, in case you’ve missed it, you can now watch the Talk online: