[with thanks to a former university Head of Examinations for input and discussion]

I've been reading a fascinating paper by Julia Slupska – "War, Health and Ecosystem: Generative Metaphors in Cybersecurity Governance" – that looks at how the metaphors we choose for Internet (in)security limit the kinds of solutions we are likely to come up with.

The EU High-Level Expert Group's (HLEG) draft Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI contains four principles and, derived from them, seven requirements for AI systems.

If Education 4.0 is about preparing students for the workplace of the future, that's going to be a dynamically changing workplace. Even in my working life I've gone from VT100s to laptops and video-conferences. The mobile phone in my pocket is much more powerful than the first university mainframe I encountered.

The question mark in the title of my Digifest talk is the key point, because I wonder whether data is the wrong place to start. In our current digital landscape, we're all too used to hearing ourselves described as "silkworms", donating "new oil" to "surveillance capitalists"; even the term "data subject" has a dehumanising feel.