Big Data and Frontier Technologies

Frontier technologies have become invaluable assets for addressing human security challenges, environmental degradation, and climate change. They also offer great potential for resilience planning, conflict and disaster early warning, conflict monitoring, negotiation and mediation, cooperative resource management, land use planning, and much more. At the same time, there are risks to privacy, accountability, accessibility, disinformation, data misuse, and other ethical dilemmas that must be managed. This interest group focuses on the intersection of frontier technologies with themes such as climate change, hazards, conflict prevention, environmental degradation, livelihood, empowerment, and governance. Technologies of interest include artificial intelligence, big data, Earth observation, the Internet of Things, management tools, and social media. The Chair of the Interest Group is Asim Zia (asim.zia@uvm.edu).