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Mr. Schneier and friends have created a new website to promote a change to the socio-economic technical milieu we are currently facing.
He suggests we need to have "public interest technologists" to help the situation.
He writes:
"We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists.
Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.""
Is he right? How can this be implemented without becoming as riddled with government agents, spies and mafias as the key positions of our corporations and institutions are right now?
Full disclosure: this writer has been a public interest technologist for a while now and I have actually alluded to the need for something like what is being suggested on multiple occasions, 'a different kind of organization' is the way I put it, way back a few months ago.
Discuss.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 13 2019, @05:36PM
That is exactly the sort of person I would want on my team. The kind of person who looks to solve the problems of the world. Not the ones of my customers. You know the ones paying the bills. Then when I do not solve the problems of the world but the ones my customer paid me to do they can cause a shitshow walk out and maybe get on the news. Then read their manifesto. Where oh WHERE can I sign up to hire someone like that!