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TICA President Khun Sumate Sudasna gives all TICA members hope for 2024 in his latest message, which look back on the opportunities and challenges of the last year. In it, he shares his insights on how to navigate the business events industry, and how we as an Association can rise above the current challenges. He also talks about the future outlook of the industry and what to look forward to on the horizon. To read the full message, click on the link in below: https://shorturl.at/hoDP8

i have joined the excellent team of Sinolytics - Berlin & Beijing as a senior advisor. i first worked with sinolytics when i was head of global strategy program at hp - ever since, i was convinced that sinolytics provides something very few consultancies can do: combining deep tech with china expertise. our joint focus will be on geopolitical risk consultancy for corporations and the public sector - providing granular insights into tech supply chains that enable the most efficient way to mitigate geopolitical risks. with "granular" i mean going all the way down to the raw materials level. we combine these forensics with scenario forecasting that includes both events and policy developments. from what i have seen from the corporate perspective, this is market-leading expertise, so very exciting times! #geopolitics #geotech #consulting #china #riskmanagement #erm #techcoldwar #publicsector also very pleased that my work with the lovely folks of SUB Erste Lesung GmbH with focus on public affairs consultancy will continue. with markets becoming ever more complicated, there is plenty of work to do...

Recently, China's pro-authoritarianism scholar Wang Wen (王文）published a paper on China's leading role in the forth industrial revolution, claiming that the success of China will mean that the West will decline for ever. Obviously he is too optimistic about China's strength (although in the West, a few BLIND China-lovers also do the same), at the same time, he simply ignores the vigilance and resilence of the Western capitalism. On the other hand, admittedly China has more ambition than India or any other late-comer countries - which is not bad for the global competition. But Beijing sees in the competition as a zero-sum flight between decadent West and great China. It remains to be seen whether Xi Jinping will have a smart strategy to materialize his ambition. In my view, he won't make it. He just consumes what his predecessors achieved. Here are some parts of Wang Wen's paper: Unlike the three scientific and technological revolutions of the past 300 years, in the face of the fourth wave of the scientific and technological revolution, all major economies regard scientific and technological change as a basic core capability for the maintenance of national security and have reconstructed their national security strategies. China does not fear the "high-tech cold war", but also have the confidence to continue to get rid of high-tech "follower's" role, and gradually among the leader ranks. Only when we recognize the global scientific and technological revolution and the depth of the logic of the U.S. and Western scientific and technological strategy, China will be able to achieve its leading position in science and technology. Curcumventing full-scale scientific and technological suppression by the US and the West is not an easy task. Only by deepening systemic changes in systemic innovation, institutional reform, talent incentives, financial support, etc., and striving to break through, reconfigure, lead, and revitalize the whole situation, can China truly assume the role of "leader" in global science and technology competition, and continue to contribute to the country's rise and national rejuvenation. China is not afraid of the "high-tech cold war", and is confident that it will continue to get rid of the role of high-tech "followers" position. China will truly assume the role of "leader" in global science and technology competition, and continue to contribute to the country's rise and national rejuvenation.

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How can we enhance trust and build best practices to safeguard the quality and integrity of online content, which is paramount in the age of AI-driven disinformation?   Under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this question was discussed at the OPERAS Research Infrastructure organized event "Trust On 2024. Tackling Disinformation" (for more information, please visit https://lnkd.in/dUr2yFHf ) that took place on June 26 -27 at the KBR (Royal Library of Belgium) in Brussels.   The aim of the workshop was to develop actionable strategies and practical recommendations for the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024. The workshop was organized in three parallel tracks, 'Infrastructure Trust', 'Mediation Trust' and 'Science Trust' to discuss and assess 'various trust dimensions of the Internet, encompassing infrastructure, governance & regulation, mediation and science, through partnerships with civil society, academia, the tech community, youth, policymakers, among others'.   POIESIS, together with partner projects VERITY, IANUS Project, and COALESCE, chaired the Science track, which was led by Tine Ravn, Agata Gurzawska, and Charlotte Bruns. Based on numerous expert presentations and through a co-creation and dialogue-based format, we discussed the following questions:   How to engage with different audiences about science and technology in times of crisis? How can co-creation and participatory initiatives be designed and implemented to empower citizens and mediating actors navigate online (mis)information? How can Stewards of Trust collaborate to enhance engagement against (digital) dis- and misinformation in the context of science?   The discussions resulted in a first set of key themes and overall recommendations. #trustinscience

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Really interesting post on the future of the world economic order. Author Wang Wen conflates China’s authoritarian economic (and policital) setup with technological progress, under the logic that a centrally dominated, authoritarian system can put more resources faster into new technologies with much greater success, and therefore China is bound to once and forever surpass the “decadent West”. Ummmmmm. As commentators below have pointed out (first of all Matías Otero Johansson), the resiliency of the western-led technological and economic system is exactly in its flexibility and responsiveness. It is the range of different approaches and initiatives that guarantees productivity of the Western system, exactly because many of them fail, but ones that survive then drive the progress. How do you do that in a centrally controlled, authoritarian system? This is totally antithetical to the authoritarianism that author promotes. Furthermore, the problem with authoritarian systems is not that they cannot put resources to work - of course they can. The problem is that they (like everyone else, when it comes to difficult issues) from time to time make mistake! Everyone makes mistakes - and the harder, more complex, more dynamic the system you’re addressing is, the more likely it is one will make mistakes sooner or later. Problem with authoritarian systems is that these mistakes aren’t corrected - unlike more flexible “decadent” systems, where they would be repeatedly and loudly called out. Instead the mistakes in authoritarian systems become dogma, get thought in schools, and sooner or later overwhelm the ability of the system to cope. I would argue that the last 10 years in China have done exactly that: a wonderfully vibrant dynamic system has been subjected to increased authoritarian control, with increasing economic errors, and the result is that ability of the system to do well progressively diminishes. China of 20 years ago was plenty able to cope with the CapEx and realestate booms and busts; in comparison, China of today is not. The timing of this article reminds me of a really unfortunately timed essay in Japan. Does anyone remember the 1989 essay “The Japan That Can Say No: Why Japan Will Be First Aming Equals”, by Shintaro Ishihara and Akio Morita? It was written right at the dead end of the Japanese economic miracle - right before the bust - and that too ascribed near-miraculous economic, technological and also political powers of the booming economy. Needless to say, this essay rang in the arrogance of the insiders of the system, who overestimated their own prospects and underestimated the flexibility of the world (or West, or US), due to perceived advantages that they extrapolated forever. What that essay didn’t do, just like what author Wang Wen doesn’t do with his view of China right now, is look at the excesses and vulnerabilities of their own system, which then quickly tipped the economy into two lost decades.

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