AI, Data and Digital

Executive Director of Portugal Digital, the Government's digital transformation programme for the country, is the cover figure of January's PME Magazine and the guest in the online presentation of the 19th edition.

What if your company could double employee productivity? What if you could reduce turn-over by 90%? What if your company could increase the success rate of new product or service launches by 25%?

The post-Covid-19 world has unequivocally contributed to a greater openness to the digital universe. Education is one of these universes of profound change, and the vast majority of global players in this sector have taken a deep dive into the online universe. Find out what has changed in the sector, in a text written by Marta Pimentel.

By shopping online or posting a "like" on Facebook we expose our identity and privacy to a gigantic pool of data. Yes, there is huge potential there for humanity. But there are also a number of threats we need to be aware of. Second in a series of ten texts about the risks of the "Digital Revolution".

It is no news that data science applications are increasingly integrated into the life of organizations and, consequently, in the life of all of us. From the most familiar aspects like product and content recommendations (just think of the giants Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify, which analyse our characteristics, interests and preferences to suggest the next product we will like), to the most surprising applications like, for example, suggesting recipes based on the ingredients we have in our kitchen [1], artificial intelligence algorithms are becoming more and more pervasive in our daily lives.