The Future of Safety and Security in the Digital Age
Wednesday 18th June 2014
17:00–19:00
(followed by a networking reception)
Bibliotheque Solvay
Leopoldpark, Rue Belliard 137
B-1040 Brussels
The world sends 3 million emails a second. Information sharing is the basis of new businesses worth
billions of pounds. Hospitals are now called to account by citizens who have, for the first time, access to big
data about their poor performance. Journalists report revelations about government surveillance of our
mobile phones - but are at the same time challenged about similar practices by rogue reporters.
All these things are happening now. What will we confront in ten years’ time? This event asks what will be
the impact of the digital age on safety and security across Europe in 2024?
This digital revolution is accelerating and will bring remarkable liberation, but also complex new challenges
for policy-makers. Astonishing access to information, mostly for free, will also raise difficult questions
about data protection, privacy and access. Policy-makers and politicians are often behind the curve on
these issues, reacting to what happened yesterday. This event will ask what challenges lurk just beyond the
horizon.
Speakers include:
The Future of Privacy & Secrecy
Richard J. Aldrich
Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
The Future of Social Media
Carl Miller
Co-founder of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos
The Future of the Internet
John Naughton
The Observer and Vice President of Wolfson College, Cambridge
Ethics of Cyberactivism
Tom Sorell
Head of the Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group, University of Warwick
The discussion will be moderated by Professor Ann Caesar, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Warwick.
Professor Richard Aldrich
Professor Aldrich is currently Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at
Warwick University where he leads the IAS Cyber-Security Research
Network. His main research interests lie in the area of technology and
international relations. His most recent book is GCHQ: The Uncensored Story
of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency (Collins 2010). His articles have
appeared in International Affairs and Foreign Policy. He lectures at the
Geneva Centre for Security Policy and currently serves on the UK Cabinet
Office Consultative Group on Intelligence and Security Records, the UK
Information Assurance Advisory Council and the UK Ministry of Defence
Academic Advisory Forum.
Professor Ann Caesar
Ann Hallamore Caesar joined the University of Warwick in 1999 to take up
the University’s first Professorship in Italian Studies. In 2004 she was
appointed to chair the Board of the Faculty of Arts and continued in that role
until 2008. Her current responsibility is as Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Before going
to Warwick she was a Lecturer and then Head of Department in the Faculty
of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge where
she was Fellow of Corpus Christi College. Her research interests focus on
Italian and Comparative Literature from the 18th century to the present day;
her most recent publications explore the rise of the novel in 18 th century
Venice and print culture in post-Unification Italy. She serves on a number of
grant-awarding bodies and she is a member of the government’s Research
Excellence Framework Panel for Modern European Languages and
Linguistics.
Professor Tim Jones
Professor Tim Jones became Pro-Vice Chancellor (Science, Engineering and
Medicine) at the University of Warwick in 2011. Tim obtained his BSc (1985)
and PhD (1988) in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool, and after
spending a short period of time on a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch
Dienst (DAAD) Fellowship at the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin, he moved to
Imperial College London in 1991 to take up a position as Lecturer in
Chemistry. Promoted to Reader in Physical Chemistry in 1996 and Professor
of Chemical Physics in 1997, Tim was also the STS/Sumitomo Professor of
Electronic Materials (2000-03), Director of the Centre for Electronic Materials
and Devices (2001-06) and Co-Director of the London Centre for
Nanotechnology (2001-07). He moved to Warwick in 2007, initially as a
Professor in Chemistry, becoming Deputy Chair (2008-10) and Chair of the
Faculty of Science (2010-11). Tim is responsible for leading the research and
impact strategy of the University, working closely with a range of
government bodies, businesses and other external stakeholders. He has led a
number of the University’s recent strategic initiatives and partnerships, most
notably Warwick’s involvement in the New York based Centre for Urban
Science and Progress (CUSP), a collaboration between a number of
universities, businesses and the city agencies.
Professor John Naughton
Professor John Naughton is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for
Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at Cambridge
and Vice-President of Wolfson College. He is also Emeritus Professor of the
Public Understanding of Technology at the Open University and the
Technology Columnist of the London Observer newspaper. He is currently a
PI on a five-year Leverhulme-funded research Project on 'Conspiracy and
Democracy' at CRASSH. His most recent book is 'From Gutenberg to
Zuckerberg: what you really need to know about the Internet' is published by
Quercus Books.
Mr Carl Miller
Carl is the co-founder and research director of the Centre for the Analysis of
Social Media (CASM) at Demos. It is the first think tank institute dedicated to
researching digital society. He is the co-author of a series of pamphlets and
essays contributing to the birth of social media science and ‘SOCMINT’, social
media intelligence. This includes #intelligence, the first framework for the
ethical and effective collection of social media intelligence for public security,
@metpoliceuk and Policing in an Information Age – that look at the
implications of social media for policing and security, and The State of the
Art: A literature review of social media intelligence capabilities for counterterrorism. His upcoming paper, Vox Digitas: listening to digital voices, lays
out a new method to understand attitudes from Twitter. His work has
featured in the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Sun,
Independent, Times, Wired, Times Education Supplement, BBC, Sky,
Prospect, Foreign Policy Magazine, ITV and Channel Four.
Professor Tom Sorell
Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy and Head of the
Interdisciplinary Ethics Research Group in the Department of Politics and
International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is an RCUK Global
Uncertainties Leadership Fellow (2013-2016). Previously, he was John
Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study
of Global Ethics, University of Birmingham. Before that, he was Co-Director
of the Human Rights Center, Essex University In 1996-7 he was Fellow in
Ethics at Harvard. He directs many funded research projects, including
several which connect ethics and cybersecurity. He has published
extensively in moral and political philosophy, including four books, and
dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles. Much of his current work involves
interaction with security practitioners and relevant policy makers.
About the University of Warwick
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and entrepreneurial. We create new ways of thinking and
achieving: making us stand out from our competitors and the
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Contact Information
Nikki Muckle
Senior Assistant Registrar (Research Strategy)
Email: Nikki.Muckle@warwick.ac.uk
Denise Hewlett
Project Manager (European Strategy)
Email: Denise.Hewlett@warwick.ac.uk
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