Liz CarolanWorking with Digital Action! Weeknote 5Did you know that Digital Action has a jobs email list that only gets used when we have a new opening? You can sign up here.Apr 29, 2022Apr 29, 2022
Liz CarolanWeeknotes 4: Single Points of FailureI have been thinking a lot this week about the idea of “Single Points of Failure”, an industrial / software term for a weakness within a…Apr 22, 2022Apr 22, 2022
Liz CarolanWeeknotes 3In which I travel to London to meet my team, and ask about the real cost of “cheap” Ad Tech.Apr 1, 2022Apr 1, 2022
Liz CarolanWeeknotes 2My second attempt! In which I get to leave the house, I think about succession planning, and share a poem I found that summarises my desire…Mar 25, 2022Mar 25, 2022
Liz CarolanWeeknotes 1Hi. Inspired by Hera Hussain, I am going to try keeping Weeknotes for a little while. Part memory aid, part transparency tool, part excuse…Mar 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022
Liz CarolanWhich Irish MEPs voted for our digital rights?Last night MEPs voted on a series of amendments to the Digital Services Act. The DSA is Europe ‘s — probably the world’s — best chance at…Jan 20, 2022Jan 20, 2022
Liz CarolanDigital threats to democracy and what to do about it: Speech at the 2018 Re-Publica Media…Below is the text of the speech I gave at the 2018 Re:Publica Media Convention in Berlin, on May3rd 2018. It was 3 weeks before the…Jun 15, 2018Jun 15, 2018
Liz CarolanWholly Unregulated: what to do about the digital blackhole in Irish referendum regulationThe way we ensure referendums are fair is out of date. Most of us get our information online; a domain “wholly unregulated” in electoral…Jan 14, 20182Jan 14, 20182
Liz CarolaninThe GraphMoney, robots, and the truth: ideas for a more open referendumBrace yourself; the referendum is coming. You, me, and the rest of Ireland are about to be bombarded by facts, rumours, misinformation…Dec 14, 20172Dec 14, 20172
Liz CarolanMaking reform irreversible: what to do when everything you have worked for can be erased in a…The morning after the US election, just over 12 months ago, I stood at the back of a large Washington DC conference hall filled with the…Dec 13, 2017Dec 13, 2017