Meda Demos 01

Researching AI, non-proprietary software & business models

Summary

Digital democracies

The idea inspiring this initiative is that the strength of democracy depends on the quality of its citizenry. This project seeks to strengthen democracy through research activities and educational interventions addressing key aspects of the challenge.In this project, the focus is on contributing to a fair and sustainable future for democracy in the Nordics and the EU via the technological dimensions of the digital infrastructure.This is also in line with the EU Sovereignity initiative (Madiega, 2020). We believe research in these dimensions may give a critical contribution to the implementation of Arcada strategy in both research and education.

The main goal of this part of the project (the part financed by TUF) is to address the technological dimension of the crisis of democracy by designing, developing and contribute to deploy a digital infrastructure based on non-proprietary software.We look deeper at the role of new technologies and the digital infrastructure of Nordic societies to understand when and how new technologies are part of the problem or part of the solution.

People

Matteo – Principal lecturer

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Matteo Stocchetti is Docent in Political Communication at Åbo Academy and Helsinki University, and Principal Lecturer in Media Culture at Arcada. His research interests include critical studies in politics, media & technology, pedagogy and epistemology.

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Dennis – Head of DevLab

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Dennis Biström is an IT-Lecturer and Researcher at Arcada UAS where he teaches full stack web programming and data managing, visualization and engineering. He is a PhD student at Åbo Akademi where he is researching human robot interaction (HRI).

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Jonas – Junior developer

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Hard working problem solver who is passionate about graphic design. Trained and experienced in Photoshop, illustrator, indesign, premier pro, sony vegas, office, word, excel and familiar with many more.

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Kristoffer – Developer

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IT Engineer and previous practical nurse (7 years of working experience in education) from Sweden with a new found passion in IT. Currently working @Arcada University of Applied Sciences as a developer in various research projects. Always open for opportunities to further my knowledge, education and experience.

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Leonardo – Head of A²I Lab

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I am a Principal Lecture in Technology & Head of A²ILab. I have a very broad range of research interests comprehending, but not limited to, areas such as autonomous intelligent machines, mining of big datasets, clustering of time series, causality, quantum machine learning, extreme learning machines, creative machines, philosophy of artificial intelligence, computer vision, deep reinforcement learning among many others.

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Robin – Junior Developer

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Third year IT student with long term experience of open source tech. Proficient in setting up media servers and cloud providers, currently active on the MEDA Demos project.

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