Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org IE Radio 2/24/2011 59 comments Premal Shah is the president of Kiva.org, a non-profit organization that allows people to use the Internet to microfinance institutions in developing countries and in the United States. We'll talk to Shah about the challenges to running an organization like Kiva, the state of charitable giving and lending on the Web, and what organizations need to do to harness the power of the Internet and engage people in philanthropy.
Jay Rosen, Journalism Professor, New York University IE Radio 2/17/2011 69 comments Jay Rosen is a media critic, NYU journalism professor, and author of the award-winning blog PressThink. Today we'll talk to him about NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for open source reporting projects; as well as the future of sites like WikiLeaks, and the way citizen journalism is changing the way we report and read the news.
John Clippinger, Co-Director, The Law Lab at Harvard University IE Radio 2/10/2011 140 comments John Clippinger is co-director of the Law Lab at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Today we'll talk to him about privacy on the Web and the need (or lack thereof) for new regulations as consumers continue to unknowingly surrender their data to companies like Google and Facebook.
Richard Watson, Author Future Minds IE Radio 2/3/2011 220 comments Richard Watson is a writer, speaker, and strategist who helps individuals and organizations to think ahead, with a particular focus on trends and scenario planning. He is the author of two books: Future Files and Future Minds.
The US National Security Agency learned the hard way that it can be dangerous to give a contractor too much money and access, with too little scrutiny. The NSA and other government agencies hire tens of thousands of contractors
a year to analyze data. Edward Snowden -- who revealed himself as the NSA leaker after fleeing the country -- was one such contractor, reportedly holding a $122,000 salaried position at Booz Allen Hamilton at the time of his departure.
Midsize businesses rarely achieve the same standards of security in their own datacenters as professional providers that specialize in delivering these services to organizations.
Big-data and analytics tools enable marketers to understand customers as individuals, identifying unmet needs and addressing each customer as a "segment of one," says John Kennedy, VP corporate marketing, IBM.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The IBM Smarter Commerce Global Summit in Monaco kicked into high gear today, and we've already begun to see news emerging from that lovely city-state by the sea.
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Premal Shah, President, Kiva.org
