Good News from the Schumacher Center!

“Ethical Markets and Library welcomes all the new initiatives at our partner, Schumacher Center and Library! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor“     Enclosed is Greg Watson’s wonderful drawing of the “big room” upstairs at the Schumacher Center’s Library. Strolling through, Bob Swann is smiling to see all the eager young researchers …

Building Community Wealth in 2019

Dear Colleague, As 2018 comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on two incredible statistics. The first is that US life expectancy has dropped for the third year in a row, the longest sustained decline since World War I; and the second is that in order to avoid climate …

The Daily 202: Russian efforts to manipulate African Americans

Russian efforts to manipulate African Americans show sophistication of disinformation campaign “Woke Blacks” is one of the fake Facebook personas created by the Internet Research Agency to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The page encouraged African Americans not to vote. (Jon Elswick/AP)   BY JAMES HOHMANN with Joanie Greve …

Mini Trip: Seoul, Korea

  Mini Trip: Seoul, Korea   The Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Korean Creative Content Agency brought me to Seoul to keynote their conference about Future Media Contents and Platforms. I spoke about the need for international governance and standards for artificial narrow intelligence’s evolution to artificial general …

Here’s the full Proposal for the GREEN NEW DEAL !

“Ethical Markets welcomes this Green New Deal plan spearheaded by incoming Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  I’ve read it carefully, and it’s just what’s needed now!  We will post all the news as this Green New Deal plan and as its new Select Committee is created in the new Congress!  Things …

Announcing 66 finalists in the AI and the News Open Challenge

“Ethical Markets congratulates all the winning entries into this Open Challenge on reporting on human-trained machine learning, often termed in the advertising slogan: “AI”. As we report, “LET’S TRAIN HUMANS …BEFORE WE TRAIN MACHINES” there is nothing artificial about this human-created human trained machine intelligence, it is best understood as …

Freedom on the Net 2018: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism

Fake news, data collection, and the challenge to democracy By Adrian Shahbaz The internet is growing less free around the world, and democracy itself is withering under its influence. Disinformation and propaganda disseminated online have poisoned the public sphere. The unbridled collection of personal data has broken down traditional notions …

EthicMark® Award Winners 2018 Announced at The SRI Conference

“Ethical Markets is delighted that our brainchild, the EthicMark® Awards for Advertising that Uplifts the Human Spirit & Society  is again announcing our 2018 winning ad campaigns at the prestigious SRI Conference again this year!  Watch these winners and be inspired! With admiration for the winners and warmest wishes to  …