- Chinmayi Arun, Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
- Nighat Dad, Executive Director, Digital Rights Foundation
- Bishakha Datta, Executive Director, Point of View, India
- Kingwa Fu, Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre of The University of Hong Kong
- Helani Galpaya, CEO, LIRNEasia
- Yong Lim, Co-Director, AI Policy Initiative, Seoul National University
- Siddharth Narrain, Phd Candidate, School of Global and Public Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales
- Julian Thomas, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
Small Book 1 – Mobile Ecosystems
In this ‘small book’, around the theme ‘Mobile Ecosystem’, Carol Soon, Gerard Goggin, and Julian Thomas and Rowan Wilken contribute key written inputs that pay particular attention to hyper-personalisation of falsehoods propagation and intervention with a case study of Singapore, platform futures in Asian post-mobile societies with a case study of Japan, and geographical information platform with a case study of Google Earth (Australia). Each contribution provides a synthesis of the state of discourse in the field, landmark policies, judgements, regulations, practices, and cases that shape this discourse, a detailed analysis of the challenges and opportunities presented, and further considerations and recommendations on interventions that are needed to build more equitable, resilient, and inclusive futures of platformisation. What’s more, one synthesis piece, developed by Nishant Shah and Malavika Jayaram, is included and provides a bird’s eye view of the emerging knowledge with- in this theme. With its multi-area focus and Inter-Asia-Pacific framework, we hope that these small books become a vehicle for asking big questions about platforms that our futures are being hosted on.- Beyond the Device: Urgency and Emergencies in a Mobile Ecosystem Malavika Jayaram & Nishant Shah
- Hyper-personalisation of Falsehood Propagation and Intervention – Carol Soon
- Google Earth: A platform for the planetary Geoweb – Julian Thomas & Rowen Wilken
- Platform Futures in Asian Post-Mobile Societies: The Case of Japan’s SoftBank – Gerrard Goggin
Small Book 2 – Data Opportunities and Challenges
In this ‘small book’, around the theme ‘Data Opportunities and Challenges’, Smitha Krishna Prasad, Kelly Kim, and Dev Lew- is contributes key written inputs that pay particular attention to Covid-19 and public health platforms in India, data opportunities and challenges in South Korea, and Taiwan model for civic-tech platforms in the Covid-19 pandemic. Each contribution provides a synthesis of the state of discourse in the field, land- mark policies, judgements, regulations, practices, and cases that shape this discourse, a detailed analysis of the challenges and opportunities presented, and further considerations and recommendations on interventions that are needed to build more equitable, resilient, and inclusive futures of platformisation. What’s more, one synthesis piece, developed by Gayatri Khandhadai, is included and provides a bird’s eye view of the emerging knowledge within this theme. With its multi-area focus and Inter-Asia-Pacific framework, we hope that these small books become a vehicle of asking big questions about platforms that our futures are being hosted on.- Understanding Data Opportunities and Challenges through Experiences – Gayatri Khandhadai
- Recent Debates on Data Utilisation and Protection: 3 Data Laws and Lee Luda – Kelly Kim (EN/KOR)
- Taiwan’s Covid Response – Dev Lewis
- Covid-19 and Public Health Platforms in India – Smitha Krishna Prasad
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Published 2021 by the Digital Asia Hub and the Professorship Aesthetics and Cultures of Technology at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Series Editors: Nishant Shah, Malavika Jayaram, and Vincent Zhong Volume Contributors: Kelly Kim, Dev Lewis, Smitha Krishna Prasad, Gayatri Khandhadai, Nishant Shah, Carol Soon, Julian Thomas, Rowan Wilken, Gerard Goggin, Malavika Jayaram, and Vincent Zhong Primary Knowledge Partner: Nishant Shah Copyeditor and proofreader: Shruthi Menon Cover and Design: Angie Kang
Through a new program on Platform Futures, the Digital Asia Hub convenes a network of academics and experts studying multiple aspects of platforms, and to create a space for dialogue on opportunities, challenges, and governance best practices in the APAC context.