Jessica Long and MJ Petroni of Causeit, Inc talk EULAs and new models for informed consent in a panel discussion on Cyborg Liability moderated by Rita Heimes, Research Director at IAPP at RSA 2016.
Cyborg Liability: Informed Consent
Cyborg Liability: Risk and Innovation
What is the cost of not adapting? What are the missed opportunities for health and safety, that if we don't handle them correctly, are actually going to cause other kinds of harm? Is it more important to prevent a few autonomous car accidents, or prevent hundreds of thousands of human driver accidents?
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You Are What You Read: Creating an Information Diet for Thought Partnership
To keep your world view up to date and your brand relevant, one of the most important things you can do is to find, share, and create thought-provoking content. And, in the social media age, you need to make sure that content you’re sending out invites response and dialog too. In order to generate a steady flow of high-quality content you’ll need a plan to keep it both manageable and compelling.
Sharing Habits: A Simple Way to Keep Your Network Engaged
One of the true benefits of reading and watching content online is that it’s easy to share articles, videos, and your ideas about them with your online networks. For busy professionals, this makes it possible to have conversations about what’s happening in your industry and the world at large—and share your unique perspective on it all—without having to find time to write lengthy original content from scratch. It also can make you a valuable partner for colleagues and clients who have information diets and networks that are different from yours.
Three Tips for Sharing Articles via Email
1. Gather Articles using Pocket or Evernote Web Clipper
Pocket and Evernote Web Clipper are programs that run in your web browser that allow a one-click method to save articles you think you'll share later. Both Pocket and Evernote web clipper allow you to add tags to saved articles. At Causeit, we use tags to categorize articles by our orbits (is this article relevant to our partners in the automotive industry? Would it appeal to futurists?)
2. Explain why you are sharing
Always provide background as to why you're sharing this article. Starting with "This article seemed relevant to our recent conversation about..." is a great way to start the discussion.
3. Maximize the Potential for Email Forwarding
Your thought partner may want to share the article with their own network. Make it easy for them by writing the email in a way that makes it appropriate to forward. Leave out any personal comments you or your thought partner would feel uncomfortable passing on to their network.
Cyborg Liability: Medical Devices and Implants
Excerpted from a transcript of a panel discussion on Cyborg Liability moderated by Rita Heimes, Research Director at IAPP at RSA 2016.
Can you tell us more about the liabilities in a cyborg future?
MJ Petroni: In the future, as we increasingly make augmentations to our bodies—implants, sensors—as we're adopting these cyborg technologies, we're looking at devices that enable people to have better health outcomes, but also technologies that hackers can access, like sending fatal doses to hospital drug pumps.
5 Big Auto Companies Shifting the Paradigm of Ownership with Car Sharing Services
Automakers are making their own forays into the digital space. Once the domain of third parties, carmakers themselves are getting into the game. Here we briefly look at the strategic partnerships, pilots and internally-led innovations carmakers are working on, as well as new business models for car sharing (wherein multiple parties own one car, or a corporation owns a car and rents it out fractionally, permitting use by a larger group of people).
7 Companies that are Disrupting the Future of the Auto Industry
Digital Disruptors: How Connected Cars Are Creating Pull for Innovation
Friendsurance
What it is: A peer-to-peer ‘social insurance’ company based in Germany that invites customers to opt in to a group policy which is shared between friends.
How it works: Each group policy includes a pool of money, fed by a percentage of each member’s premium, which can be used to pay out small claims. If, at the end of the year, there is money left in the pool, everyone gets their share of the remainder back.
Why it's disruptive: Part of the premiums still go to regular insurance, but the idea of money back each year underwritten by the desire to do right by your friends is an unconventional and attractive value add—especially for people who see in their cultural identity collaboration, community and “pay only for what you use”. In 2013, roughly 90 percent of users who took advantage of the peer-to-peer-insurance model were repaid contributions.
Highlights from Causeit at RSA 2016
Read From Automobile to Automobility: Technology’s Promise for Cars
Today, Causeit is proud to launch its major research article, From Automobile to Automobility: Technology’s Promise for Cars.
In this article, you'll read about the challenges humans have faced in mobility, learn which companies that are disrupting the automotive industry, and experience what a commute to work will look like in a smart city of the future.
Explore the shift from vehicle production to automobility as a service.
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5 Ways to Cultivate Thought Partnership on LinkedIn
1. Post an Article on your News Feed
This may be the quickest way to keep a conversation going with your professional network. LinkedIn has a status update feature similar to other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter—you can post interesting and relevant articles from the front page by clicking "Share an Update". Then, simply copy and paste the URL of an article you'd like to share, view and approve a thumbnail preview of the link, and add your own commentary in the text box below.
Tip: for each post on LinkedIn you have the option to share with Everyone, Connections (only 1st degree connections) or Everyone + Twitter (which will conveniently push a post to Twitter and draw visitors to your LinkedIn page).
What kind of thought partner are you?
The web and innovation culture have given us access to countless ‘thought leaders’ and inspired us with bold new ways of thinking about what’s possible. Now, organizations and individuals are looking to one another for "thought partnership"—conversations that help them turn inspiration into strategy.
From Mentorship to Sponsorship—Putting Something at Stake in Diversity
As a small company working with large technology firms, we've learned some difficult lessons about how to navigate the corporate world. As the white, male founder of a firm, but with 'hidden' diversity (all of our current employees qualify as at least one protected class, such as women, members of the LGBT community and/or disabled) I have seen a lot of conversations where people assumed I was one of the old boys' club, and had at least as many where I was definitely not in the 'club.' What I've learned is that mentorship is the second prize: sponsorship is what really matters. I first heard the term 'sponsorship' at the BlogHer Business, Entertainment and Technology conference a few years ago. In contrast to the (useful) mentorship and coaching models, which are mostly about advice in a private setting, sponsorship is the concept of lending or giving tangible and intangible resources to others to help them get a leg up—like reputation, connections, leads, money or access
Thread? Weave? Brillo? What's Google up to in IoT?
Recently, we've been getting asked about the differences between many different IoT standards. One of the biggest players is Google—and they've been approaching the world of IoT on many, many fronts. Their early investment in Nest placed them firmly at the front of the pack for the current wave of home automation. But Google has also been working on IoT backbones for many developers to use, in three key ways:
Apple's Reintermediation of Smartphones: The iPhone as a Service
With Apple's recent announcement of their direct sales of not just smartphones, but phone & plan bundles, mainstream customers are about to experience a big, visible change in mobile business models. While lots of articles do a great job comparing Apple's new iPhone Upgrade Plan to similar carrier-specific offerings, there's another issue at hand behind the scenes as Apple closes the loop of the iPhone experience.
Will You Be the Dinosaur or the Disruptor?: Shifting from Analog to Digital
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Rebel Jam 2015 Re-Cap: Watch the Social Network of Things Live Presentation
Join us for Rebel Jam 2015: 24 hours of collective wisdom with corporate rebels from around the globe
Causeit is excited to once again participate in Rebel Jam, a 24 hour webcast organized by @petervan's Corporate Rebels United, Rebels at Work, and Change Agents Worldwide. We first met Peter Vander Auwera in his work with @innotribe (a Causeit client), and are glad to support his work of helping the corporate rebels and misfits of the world find the best way to apply their brilliance to pressing global issues.