Data and Analytics: Do Good, Not Bad
April 1, 2019
Nope, not an April Fool’s spoof. “Using Data and Analytics for Good” is an attempt to make a case for monitoring and intercept technology to make the world a better place. No, the write up does not use China’s social credit score as an example of “doing good.”
I noted this statement from Cindi Howson, a Gartner fellow traveler, in the write up:
Howson said the mission is a personal one for her that started when she was a college student. She was working two jobs to pay her own way, and after she wrote that big tuition check she had only $2 left to buy hotdogs and a box of macaroni to last a week. She knew that financially there wasn’t much separating her from the homeless people she had passed on the streets of New York City every night.
Was this the plight of the students whose parents paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so that their progeny could enter “prestigious schools”?
Will Gartner convert data for good into revenue? Stakeholders may be crossing their fingers.
The “doing good” thing does not get much coverage in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. That’s no April Fool’s joke.
Stephen E Arnold, April 1, 2019
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