Event
SG - The Importance of Public Values in our Digital World
Join us for an exploration of the Big Tech Broligarchies, starting close to home. We appreciate your understanding that illness prevents Simone van der Burg from participating this evening. She will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
About The Importance of Public Values in our Digital World
Victor Viveen, like many, is concerned about how we safeguard autonomy, justice and humanity in a world of increasing digitalisation and vendor dependence. Tonight, he will share with us what the WUR’s IT is doing to this end. Where do we stand in relation to the rest of developments on the tech landscape horizon? What kinds of opportunities and challenges are we facing when it comes digital sustainability, sovereignty, safety? Victor will share how public values could guide us and help us make the right decisions in a world permeated by uncertainties. Join us for an exploration of the Big Tech Broligarchies, starting close to home. We appreciate your understanding that illness prevents Simone van der Burg from participating this evening. She will be rescheduled as soon as possible.
About series Big-Tech Broligarchies & New World Order
At the global level we see a scramble to redefine world order. Amidst destruction and upheaval, new dynamics of power are emerging on a stage previously dominated only by states. Big-Tech billionaires, whose services, products, platforms and infrastructure permeate our lives, have taken up position in this mix; even at the heart of the disruption. What does their oligarchical, techno-political power mean for world order, the future of democracy and our own personal choices? This series traces the long shadow cast by the ‘tech-bro’s’ and unpacks what is going on and what is at stake for the future of democratic societies, pluralist political stability and personal freedoms.
About Victor Viveen
Victor Viveen is Director of IT at WUR. He heads the organisation delivering IT services to all WUR colleagues: tools like our daily digital environment, laptop and smartphone, connectivity, security and applications we use for education, research and operations. Sustainability, Security and Sovereignty are three important elements in nowadays IT development and use. Victor is also the vice chair of the overarching IT organisations of the 14 Universities in the Netherlands. He works very closely with them (together with MBO, HBO, UMC’s and Research institutes) on diverse topics which reach to the heart of the digital technique underpinning our everyday existences, work and research and connectivity. All these organisations are member of Surf, the IT cooperative of education and research. His knowledge and expertise is grounded in the conviction that as a sector, we can make a difference together.