Tough love: a story of stigmatization in crowdfunding communities
Why might an entrepreneur entering a new community be stigmatized? Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting a paper at Virtual Toronto, centred around the above question….
The Inconvenient Truth about Digital Sustainability
One of the most revealing impacts of the pandemic has been the way many people have seized the opportunity to take stock of their way of life. For…
Too Big to Fail
I remember the first time that I began to really understand the broad impact of the internet across all of our lives. Several years ago, I rang at…
Watercoolers: can we replace random daily contact?
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, here’s a piece I wrote for Forbes. As we move into hybrid work and the next normal, do we need to schedule our unscheduled…
DIGIT Lab Launch: Chair’s Reflections
A Roaring Success! 187 people registered for the launch We received follow-on engagement from c. 25 people in the following week The event stimulated discussion, new ideas, and…
How taxes could be less taxing
If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, we owe it to ourselves to live a good life, and we owe it to each other to…
Ensuring a Sustainable Future for the Insurance Sector
By Zena Wood and Phil Godsiff Originally posted on London Market Forums website Sustainability and sustainable development are now recognised as crucial to the health of the planet…
Nature Food: A trust framework for digital food systems
From paper co-authored by Roger Maull and Phil Godsiff, with Steve Brewer, Simon Pearson, Jeremy G. Frey, Andrea Zisman, Gerard Parr, Andrew McMillan, Sarah Cameron, Hannah Blackmore, Louise Manning and Luc Bidaut The food system…
How accurate are online symptom checkers?
From paper by Adam Ceney, Stephanie Tolond, Andrzej Glowinski, Ben Marks, Simon Swift, and Tom Palser. In 2013, the World Health Organisation reported that the world was short…
Digital Transformation in Animal Health: Is its Bark Worse than its Bite?
In the UK we love our pets. And in these troubled times, even more people have turned to them with a reported 3.2 million new pet owners since the start…