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Dr Paul R Kelly
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Uni of Essex | Global Development | NPO/NGOs | Information Systems | Digital Transformation | Impact Evaluation | Power/Data/Knowledge | Activity Theory

Web: https://sites.google.com/view/paulrichardkelly
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My paper live after 5 yrs work "Power as Present-in-Actions in Mundane Information Systems Work" #PowerFramework #InformationSystems #PowerRelations #ActivityTheory #PracticeTheory aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol25/iss… Congrats @stank297
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Reposting as the original post was a few weeks ago.

Coming soon to a CWOS Seminar near you, is Dr Laura Mitchell, talking about "Rethinking Dignity in the Workplace".

Join us if you can on 25 June.

More info below, DM to learn more!

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June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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"If this amendment passes, not a single state in America could protect people from AI systems that unfairly deny their medical care, keep their nursing homes understaffed, revoke their unemployment benefits, or inflate their rent."
This week, the GOP slid an amendment into the budget reconciliation process that would ban US states from enacting laws that govern AI.

This of course was not an aberration—it’s the direct result of Silicon Valley lobbying efforts, and big tech’s union with Trump and the Republican Party.
Behind Silicon Valley and the GOP’s united campaign to ban state AI laws
Inside the effort to de-democratize AI
www.bloodinthemachine.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Talk next week by myself & co-presenter Charlie Leedham about our knowledge transfer partnership with Frogmore a Paper Mill.

Is sustainability the same for big and small organisations?

Well, no.

DM for deets or see the link!
#CWOSSeminar Wed 7 May 2025, 12-1pm, Zoom

"Big or Small Sustainability? A Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Frogmore Paper Mill"

WithPaul Kelly & Charlie Leedham

www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

#BigOrSmallSustainability

Essex Business School
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April 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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In her new book “Predatory Data,” D&S affiliate Anita Say Chan traces a throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley, showing how data has been used to devalue human beings along eugenicist lines — both past and present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Eugenics isn't dead—it's thriving in tech
A new book takes on the throughline from the rise of 20th-century eugenics to Silicon Valley.
www.motherjones.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
On #DeepSeek and #AI right, would you be ok with your AI client corp taking your data, digging around on you, giving it to their gov, spying on you, selling your data, & generally ripping privacy & copyright up?

Or would DeepSeek be a better option?
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media.tenor.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The dismantling of USAID is wacko. They can be criticised big time, but complete shut down coz CIA Musk techbros mumbo jumbo somfink???

Will this be like in Australia & UK in last 10 years when #AUSAID and #DFID #UKAID depts were bounced around & beaten up, … but survived?
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February 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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At The Verge, @lopatto.bsky.social reports on how AI-generated answers to search queries are feeding into “the large-scale degradation of our information environment,” and asks: “What good is an answer machine that nobody can trust?” www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...
Stop using generative AI as a search engine
Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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Data Mining Has Created A World Where Everyone Is For Sale. But Could It Also Have A Downside?
Data Mining Has Created A World Where Everyone Is For Sale. But Could It Also Have A Downside?
YouTube video by The Onion
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December 11, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Well, the UK parliament has passed the Assisted Dying Bill. A major step towards giving people more choice about how the live, and how they die, in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
MPs back landmark bill to legalise assisted dying in England and Wales
Terminally ill adults with less than six months to live will be given right to die under proposed legislation
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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November 20, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Yup, now how about that famous humanitarian technology that was gonna bring water to every village,the tech, the dream, well it didn’t work, for various reasons. So much for the aid hype - Play Pump ladies and gents - news.climate.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/t...
The PlayPump: What Went Wrong?
Earlier this week, PBS's Frontline ran a story about the PlayPump, a technology that was supposed to bring drinking water to thousands of African communities by harnessing the power of children at pla...
news.climate.columbia.edu
November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Ok let’s start with some stuff about the politics of data and technology, from way back in 1984, classic article about how a new MIS spawned a whole shedload of new political problems and how we can use diff theories to understand what happened- Markus dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Power, politics, and MIS implementation | Communications of the ACM
Theories of resistance to management information systems (MIS) are important because they guide the implementation strategies and tactics chosen by implementors. Three basic theories of the causes of ...
dl.acm.org
November 20, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Looking for peeps on BlueSky who research #InformationSystems or #GlobalDevelopment.

Anyone out there to follow?
November 13, 2024 at 11:05 PM
My Org Change book with co authors:
Tucker, D., Cirella, S. & Kelly, P. (2024, January). Organizational Change Management: Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice. Sage Publications. London, UK. uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/or...
Organizational Change Management
Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice
uk.sagepub.com
November 13, 2024 at 11:02 PM
My paper live after 5 yrs work "Power as Present-in-Actions in Mundane Information Systems Work" #PowerFramework #InformationSystems #PowerRelations #ActivityTheory #PracticeTheory aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol25/iss… Congrats @stank297
BoykaSimeonova RobertGalliers @CWOSResearch @Essex_EBS
November 13, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Just getting started on Blue Sky, moving away from X, as many are.
November 13, 2024 at 10:32 PM