The Digital Economist Podcast

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” She connects people with the businesses and opportunities that expand their lives.  In this episode of The Digital Economist Speaker Series, Sandy joins Digital Economist CEO Navroop Sahdev to talk about the broken immigration system and its impact on entrepreneurship in the US.

Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland referred by Forbes in 2012 as one of the “seven most powerful data scientists in the world”, is one of the most-cited authors in computer science, and founding director of the MIT Connection Science Research Initiative, and Toshiba Professor of Media, Arts, and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
With the global population facing multiple man-made crises that threaten our existence and the wellbeing of the planet, using science and technology to serve human needs is no longer a choice – it's a necessity. Integrating data science into real-world human behavior holds the key to our future. Gather insights into leveraging data for post-crisis resilience: society, economy, work. The Digital Economist has launched the Speaker Series to drive radical collaboration between global action leaders on the most urgent topics and challenges we face today: climate, health, society, economics. 
In this episode of The Digital Economist Speaker Series, Sandy joins The Digital Economist's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Arvinder Singh Kang, and CEO, Navroop Sahdev to share his insights on data as the new capital, privacy, and some groundbreaking insights on how to harness it. They discuss: 
6:54 - A new deal on data
15:19 - Building community data unions
29:43 - How smaller communities build data ecosystems
39:18 - You need to have a gold standard for auditing data 
41:42 - You don’t need to have command and control within companies
44:19 - Moving towards a network of platform transactions
50:55 - Processes that protect flows of data 

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Sonia Bashir Kabir is a technology entrepreneur, a philanthropist, and an investor focusing on tech startups in emerging markets of South Asia. In the inaugural session of The Digital Economist Speaker Series, Sonia joins Digital Economist's Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Arvinder Singh Kang, and CEO, Navroop Sahdev to share her startups and philanthropy journey in South Asia, and changes she expects in a post-pandemic investment world.