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Tackling threats to informed decision-making in democratic societies: Promoting epistemic security in a technologically-advanced world

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dc.contributor.authorSeger, Elizabeth
dc.contributor.authorAvin, Shahar
dc.contributor.authorPearson, Gavin
dc.contributor.authorBriers, Mark
dc.contributor.authorÓ Heigeartaigh, Seán
dc.contributor.authorBacon, Helena
dc.contributor.orcidAvin, Shahar [0000-0001-7859-1507]
dc.contributor.orcidSeger, Elizabeth [0000-0001-8942-4130]
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-03T15:39:08Z
dc.date.available2021-02-03T15:39:08Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-14
dc.description.abstractAccess to reliable information is crucial to the ability of a democratic society to coordinate effective collective action when responding to a crisis, like a global pandemic, or complex challenge like climate change. Through a series of workshops we developed and analysed a set of hypothetical yet plausible crisis scenarios to explore how technologically exacerbated external threats and internal vulnerabilities to a society’s epistemic security – its ability to reliably avert threats to the processes by which reliable information is produced, distributed, and assessed within the society – can be mitigated in order to facilitate timely decision-making and collective action in democratic societies. Overall we observed that preserving a democratic society’s epistemic security is a complex effort that sits at the interface of many knowledge domains, theoretical perspectives, value systems, and institutional responsibilities, and we developed a series of recommendations to highlight areas where additional research and resources will likely have a significant impact on improving epistemic security in democratic societies
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.64183
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/317073
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThe Alan Turing Institute
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
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dc.subjectEpistemic security
dc.subjectepistemic threat
dc.subjectinformation technology
dc.subjectmisinformation
dc.subjectdisinformation
dc.subjectepistemic infrastructure
dc.titleTackling threats to informed decision-making in democratic societies: Promoting epistemic security in a technologically-advanced world
dc.typeReport
prism.publicationDate2020
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-10-14
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/
rioxxterms.typeTechnical Report
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