Monday’s Must Read List

Each week, I publish a list of interesting articles, essays and reports that may be of interest to the digital diplomacy community. This week-

1. Questions To Ask When Implementing Technology (Forbes)
2. Facial Recognition Technology Solves Crimes, but at What Cost? (VOA)
3. New funding from UK Space Agency will kickstart space technology projects (UK Gov)
4. From smart to good cities: shifting the focus from technology to quality of life (LSE Blog)
5. Meet the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers of 2021 (World Economic Forum)
6. Maine law restricts facial recognition technology statewide (Associated Press)
7. The Tech Cold War’s ‘Most Complicated Machine’ That’s Out of China’s Reach (The New York Times)
8. Biden’s Chief of Staff Losses Sleep Over Pandemic Disinformation (The New York Time)
9. Technology Is Like Life — Accidents Happen (Forbes)

Some light reading- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt