As the GCIO I’m responsible for three areas. One is the application of IT within government—with the use of Internet of course. And another area is digital inclusion for the whole society. And thirdly to facilitate ICT development in Hong Kong.
My part for the global Internet is very little. Only introducing the Internet to China. We had finished our first Internet connection to the United States in 1994. That brought China to the Internet.
There was this idea that the “Internet” was only for academics and government. But we were having a lot of commercial customers come to us and want to be able to use the Internet for conversing with their people at universities as well as at other companies around the US. So, we worked with a couple of firms, PSI and UUNET, and together the three of us formed something called the Commercial Internet Exchange. And when we did that that was the first time ever that commercial traffic was able to pass through the Internet.
I’ve been active in so-called Internet institutions that take care of the running of the Internet since 1987, ’88, something like that. I was one of the first non-American people to join the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the standardization organization for the Internet. And I’ve worked hard to establish that that became more international…
Today I kind of want to share a path that I went through from taking a personal tool which is…like a personal toy tool to the point that it’s a professional tool that I can use in my everyday work for whatever kind of work I do.
I’m going to talk about p5.js and web accessibility, and particularly about creating infrastructure for accessibility in an open source creative community.
Why am I here? I’m here actually for the community for the work that we do together as a group of people that care deeply about care and access and all these different issues and approachability and things like that.
I wanted to talk about how I got into coding and art. And how I started working on the p5 editor, since now I’ve been working on it for five years and maybe it seems sort of like if you want to do something like that like…how do you do it? And why is it important to me?
Today, I really want to talk about how we built Wick Editor to grow with the users that were using the tool, and some things that I wish I knew when we started.
I’m gonna try and frame things around the idea of digital citizenship. And I used lower case here because I don’t always love the term “citizen” and it’s been misused a lot over time. But I think there’s something here, and I was very much inspired by some of the earlier speakers this week and their thinking about the roles we play and the ways that we work together to accomplish these bigger things.
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The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University has some really useful thinking and curricula around ethics. One of the things they point out is that what ethics is not is easier to talk about than what ethics actually is. And some of the things that they say about what ethics is not include feelings. Those aren't ethics. And religion isn't ethics. Also law. That's not ethics. Science isn't ethics. Read more →
It occurred to me belatedly that I really should just tweet my acceptance speech. Except I don't have Twitter account, so that makes it harder. Read more →
When many of the people in this room were beginning to lay the groundwork for the network in the 60s, I was working as a political scientist and worrying about communications patterns and how those worked. Read more →
When we talk about technologies such as AI, and policy, one of the main problems is that technological advancement is fast, and policy and democracy is a very very slow process. And that could be potentially a very big problem if we think that AI could be potentially dangerous. Read more →