July 10, 2020
Supporting Truth and Trust in Digital Content During the Deepfake Era
Software-enabled innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation tools are on the rise. These promising technologies are being implemented across industry sectors to allow content creators to produce and share their work faster than ever, allow greater insights into data for businesses and governments,...
June 11, 2020
As Software Proves Key to Virus Response, the Need to Update Government Systems Becomes Clear
Much will be written about the public health response to COVID-19, but the real lessons for government run much broader. In fact, just as the virus disrupted almost every facet of life, its effects cascaded across the public sector....
November 14, 2019
Privacy Shield: What It Is and Why You Should Care
In a new paper, Software.org: the BSA Foundation provides an overview of the US-EU Privacy Shield, a framework that ensures data is treated properly and securely under both US and EU privacy laws, enabling the cross-border data flows that provide the provide the foundation for...
August 01, 2018
Software.org Joins Partnership on AI
The Partnership on AI is a multistakeholder organization that brings together academics, researchers, civil society organizations, and companies to examine questions to better understand AI’s impacts on people and society....
March 22, 2018
Transforming the World With AI
On Tuesday, Software.org sponsored a Washington Post event called Transformers: Artificial Intelligence. The event convened researchers, technology innovators, and business leaders to explore AI policies, the future of work, and ethical and societal issues related to AI. Among the highlights: Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and...
March 20, 2018
Maximizing the Benefits of AI, From Business and Beyond
AI-based systems already are helping promote incredible economic progress around the world by making business processes faster, seamless, and more efficient. AI-based tools are enabling an unprecedented number of business applications, with algorithmic models, natural language processing, deep learning, cognitive computing, machine learning models, and...
March 01, 2018
Encryption Plays a Key Role in Securing Our Critical Infrastructure
We are surrounded by discussions of the benefits of future technology: smart cities and new services that will ease our commutes and improve our work lives and sensor-laden smart homes that will ease our day-to-day chores through the Internet of Things (IoT). In many ways,...
November 17, 2017
Blockchain: Understanding a Software Technology That Will Advance New Solutions
The term “blockchain” – like cloud computing and IoT before it – keeps cropping up in new and different settings, yet few people still truly understand its operations or allure. Blockchain, most often linked to the digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum, serves as the foundation...
July 11, 2017
Connecting Devices to Connect Society
Most of us use the Internet to communicate, but we’re not alone – our appliances now use it too. It all began in 1990 when someone hooked up a toaster to the Internet to control it remotely. Since then, innovators have been exploring how to...
April 04, 2017
Software.org: At the Intersection of Software and Society
When it comes to software, society faces three key challenges. We need to design policies that can stay ahead of cutting-edge technologies. We need to prepare for the workforce of the future. And we need to better support diversity, inclusion, and economic opportunity for all....