Στα συμπεράσματα γίνεται λόγος για ένα ”αποτυχημένο οικοσύστημα εμπιστοσύνης” που δεν μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει την αχαλίνωτη infodemic (επιδημία πληροφόρησης) που καταδικάζει θεσμικά όργανα - επιχειρήσεις, κυβερνήσεις, ΜΚΟ και μέσα ενημέρωσης - σε μια ”χρεοκοπία” ενώ το κλίμα που καταγράφεται καθιστά επιτακτική την ανάγκη αποκατάστασης της εμπιστοσύνης μεταξύ θεσμών και πολιτών και την χάραξη μιας νέας πορείας.
Η έρευνας της Edelman- “Edelman Trust Barometer 2021”, που επί δύο δεκαετίες έχει καταγράψει τις απαντήσεις χιλιάδων πολιτών σχετικά με την εμπιστοσύνη τους σε βασικούς θεσμούς, διαπιστώνει πως το 57% των ερωτηθέντων θεωρεί ότι οι κυβερνήσεις, οι επικεφαλής επιχειρήσεων και οι δημοσιογράφοι διασπείρουν ψευδείς πληροφορίες ή υπερβάλλουν. Πιο αναλυτικά στη Huffpost εδώ.
Τα αναλυτικά αποτελέσματα της έρευνας εδώ.
Costas Kataras BLOG
Saturday, 16 January 2021
Απογοητευτικά ποσοστά εμπιστοσύνης των πολιτών σε βασικούς θεσμούς δείχνει το “Edelman Trust Barometer 2021”
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
How to Shrink Inequality
"Some inequality of income and wealth is inevitable, if not necessary. If an economy is to function well, people need incentives to work hard and innovate. The pertinent question is not whether income and wealth inequality is good or bad. It is at what point do these inequalities become so great as to pose a serious threat to our economy, our ideal of equal opportunity and our democracy." A classic article by Prof Robert Reich in The Nation.
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
Χ. Παπαδημητριου του Columbia-Κινδυνεύουμε να μπούμε στην απόλυτη επιτήρηση
… “ Είναι η φύση του διαδικτύου και αυτών των επιχειρήσεων: winner takes all. O κερδισμένος τα παίρνει όλα.
για παράδειγμα, βλέπουμε ότι για τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα υπάρχει μόνο μια εταιρεία παγκοσμίως -το Facebook, έρευνας στο διαδίκτυο μόνο μία -το Google-, για σύγχρονα gadgets μόνο η Apple, για διαδικτυακές παγκόσμιες αγορές μόνο μία – η Amazon.
Εγώ εδώ και πολύ καιρό δεν χρησιμοποιώ το Google για να κάνω αναζητήσεις στο διαδίκτυο. Υπάρχει μια εταιρεία που λέγεται duckduckgo (κάπως σαν «παπάκι πάει στην ποταμιά») την οποία χρησιμοποιώ, και δεν μου λείπει το Google. Eχω σταματήσει το Facebook εδώ και χρόνια, έχω σταματήσει τις αγορές μέσω Αmazon… Για όλα υπάρχουν μη μονοπωλιακές επιλογές, ακόμα και για το zoom, που ο κορωνοϊός θα το μετατρέψει σε μεγάλο μονοπώλιο που θα μας κατασκοπεύει: μια εναλλακτική είναι το jitsi.”
Χρίστος Παπαδημητρίου ,
Kορυφαίος θεωρητικός σε θέματα computer science και «πατέρας» της αλγοριθμικής θεωρίας των παιγνίων.
Kαθηγητής Columbia , MIT , Harvard , Berkley
(Πηγή: iefimerida.gr - https://www.iefimerida.gr/ellada/hristos-papadimitrioy-nea-yorki-tramp-koronoios)
για παράδειγμα, βλέπουμε ότι για τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα υπάρχει μόνο μια εταιρεία παγκοσμίως -το Facebook, έρευνας στο διαδίκτυο μόνο μία -το Google-, για σύγχρονα gadgets μόνο η Apple, για διαδικτυακές παγκόσμιες αγορές μόνο μία – η Amazon.
Εγώ εδώ και πολύ καιρό δεν χρησιμοποιώ το Google για να κάνω αναζητήσεις στο διαδίκτυο. Υπάρχει μια εταιρεία που λέγεται duckduckgo (κάπως σαν «παπάκι πάει στην ποταμιά») την οποία χρησιμοποιώ, και δεν μου λείπει το Google. Eχω σταματήσει το Facebook εδώ και χρόνια, έχω σταματήσει τις αγορές μέσω Αmazon… Για όλα υπάρχουν μη μονοπωλιακές επιλογές, ακόμα και για το zoom, που ο κορωνοϊός θα το μετατρέψει σε μεγάλο μονοπώλιο που θα μας κατασκοπεύει: μια εναλλακτική είναι το jitsi.”
Χρίστος Παπαδημητρίου ,
Kορυφαίος θεωρητικός σε θέματα computer science και «πατέρας» της αλγοριθμικής θεωρίας των παιγνίων.
Kαθηγητής Columbia , MIT , Harvard , Berkley
(Πηγή: iefimerida.gr - https://www.iefimerida.gr/ellada/hristos-papadimitrioy-nea-yorki-tramp-koronoios)
Friday, 17 January 2020
The State of Corporate Reputation in 2020
Weber Shandwick recently took stock of the reputation of
business. The study, “The State of Corporate
Reputation in 2020: Everything Matters Now”, was conducted in partnership
with KRC Research and surveyed executives from 22 markets around
the world. The study examines what drives reputation, why it is important
to be highly regarded and the benefits that come with having a strong
reputation. A primary finding from the research is that reputation
today is omnidriven. That is, a company’s portfolio of reputation
drivers is no longer dependent on solely a few select factors.
Everything matters today, from quality of employees, to quality of
products, to financial performance, to corporate culture, to community.
The list goes on. In an environment where business leaders are being
caught off guard by dangers that seemingly lie in plain sight, companies must
ensure they are hyperalert to all factors when working to build and safeguard
their reputations. See the report at : https://bit.ly/38eemnW
Monday, 26 February 2018
On-line prices based on customers’ habits, Big Data and algorithms
When you buy an airplane ticket or a DVD online, you may pay a higher -- or lower -- price than another customer buying the very same item from the very same site.Why? Because the information the site has compiled on you suggests that you may be willing to pay more -- or less -- than others for that item. Is this kind of "price customization" legal? The Internet allows shoppers to easily compare prices across thousands of stores. But it also enables businesses to collect detailed information about a customer's purchasing history, preferences, and financial resources -- and to set prices accordingly. More here.
Weapons of Math Destruction: A fascinating, timely, book by Cathy O’Neil
Weapons of math destruction, are mathematical models or algorithms that claim to quantify important traits: teacher quality, recidivism risk, creditworthiness but have harmful outcomes and often reinforce inequality, keeping the poor poor and the rich rich. They have three things in common: opacity, scale, and damage. They are often proprietary or otherwise shielded from prying eyes, so they have the effect of being a black box. They affect large numbers of people, increasing the chances that they get it wrong for some of them. And they have a negative effect on people, perhaps by encoding racism or other biases into an algorithm or enabling predatory companies to advertise selectively to vulnerable people, or even by causing a global financial crisis. But as the book suggest the mathematics of big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. More here and at http://amzn.to/2clQHXG
Thursday, 22 February 2018
Media: the least trusted institution globally, according to a new study
For the first time media is the least
trusted institution globally. In 22 of the 28 markets surveyed it is now
distrusted. The demise of confidence in the Fourth Estate is driven primarily
by a significant drop in trust in platforms, notably search engines and social
media. Sixty-three percent of respondents say they do not know how to tell good
journalism from rumor or falsehoods or if a piece of news was produced by a
respected media organization. The lack of faith in media has also led to an
inability to identify the truth (59 percent), trust government leaders (56
percent) and trust business (42 percent). For more see Edelman TrustBarometer .
Sunday, 17 April 2016
There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product ?
Authors Trevor Zink and Roland Geyer suggest that here is no such thing as a “green” product. The corporate sustainability gospel—that green companies
sell green products, and green products have some absolute and well-defined
environmental attributes—evaporates on closer inspection. According to the authors the environmental benefits of green products
are not that they somehow fix the environment or have zero impact, but rather
that their environmental impacts are less than those of similar products.
Products can have an impact on the environment during one or more stages of
their life cycles, which are production, use, and end of life. A natural step is therefore
to tally up the environmental impacts of similar products throughout their life cycles
and compare the results. Read more at SSIR here .
Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Economics, in the last decades, has been harmful for most people?
As
Chang had put it in Guardian: “Economics,
as it has been practised in the last three decades, has been positively harmful
for most people.” !! “Economists are not some innocent technicians who did a
decent job within the narrow confines of their expertise until they were
collectively wrong-footed by a once-in-a-century disaster that no one could
have predicted.” Far from being an inward-looking, hermetic discipline,
economics has been a hugely powerful – and profitable – enterprise, shaping the
policies of governments and companies throughout much of the world. The results
have been little short of disastrous” . A great book, a must read, for all
thought leaders. Ha-Joon Chang, Prof at the University of Cambridge, is
one of the leading heterodox economists and institutional economists
specialising in development economics .
A Professor at Cambridge that is analytically debunking the myths
of capitalism in his book “23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism”. A must read.
See more here.
Friday, 1 April 2016
Monsanto: Strong Ties, Strong Media and the challenge of editorial integrity and independence
According to Huffpost , the media and partnerships division of the venerable magazine Scientific American hosted
a panel Thursday at the National Press Club featuring journalists and
scientists. The event, cosponsored by a group called GMO Answers,
focuses on whether science is “explained fairly in the media.” What
might be less apparent is that GMO Answers requires some explanation
itself: The group is a project of agricultural biotech firms meant to
buttress the industry’s reputation.
GMO Answers, which was launched in
the summer of 2013 to help improve the impression of genetically
modified foods in the U.S., is a project of PR giant Ketchum. Funding
for the effort comes from agricultural biotech companies, including
Monsanto and Syngenta. Monsanto, which sells seeds that have been genetically altered so crops can survive the company’s glyphosate weedkiller, was facing pressure in many states to label foods containing GMOs, or genetically modified organisms. GMO Answers was created as a website where people could have questions answered by supposedly “independent” scientists.
The New York Times reported in 2013 that GMO Answers would embrace a more “transparent” approach in addressing critics, who accuse big agricultural companies of “purposely hiding information.” Around the same time, Politico reported that Monsanto shook up its internal PR shop and began a “charm offensive,” visiting newsrooms across Washington.
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Nestle in Society: Creating Shared Value (CSV)
The 2015 report focuses on the 39 commitments that range across the Creating Shared Value (CSV) focus areas of nutrition, health and wellness; water and environmental sustainability; rural development, human rights, and people, to provide the reader an overview of Nestlé’s material issues and activities in these areas. Nestlé’s societal commitments, first published in 2012, were developed in consultation with external stakeholders and provide the reader with a clear sense of the strategic direction and standards of the company. A more detailed version of the reportis also available on the company’s CSV page.
Friday, 4 March 2016
Why organizations must look beyond corporate-social-responsibility initiatives to truly engage
Antibusiness sentiment is nothing new. Yet mending the rift between big business and society isn’t merely a worthy goal—it may represent a new frontier of competitive advantage, profitability, and longevity for today’s organizations. In Connect: How companies succeed by engaging radically with society (PublicAffairs, March 2016), L1 Energy chairman and former BP chief executive officer John Browne, McKinsey’s Robin Nuttall, and entrepreneur Tommy Stadlen offer a practical blueprint for reconciling companies and communities. Read more about this topic from McKinsey here .
Tuesday, 1 March 2016
Applying circular-economy principles
Plastics are the workhorse material of the modern
economy. Their popularity has kept the industry growing for 50 years,
with global production surging from 15 million metric tons in 1964 to
311 million metric tons in 2014. If business proceeds as usual, this
number is projected to double to more than 600 million metric tons in
the next 20 years. Read the full story from this McKinsey article here .
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