What's interesting this week...

Develop Impact - Issue 121

Happy Monday!

Hope your week’s off to a good start! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a what’s interesting roundup and I wanted to bring this back. This week I am highlighting five articles I found interesting. I hope you find these resources interesting and helpful as well.

Have a great week ahead!

Jesse

What’s interesting…

Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?

MIT Technology Review’s Charlotte Jee provides an overview of HereAfter AI, StoryFile, and You, Only Virtual. These platforms enable you to store someone’s life story, text, phone, or voice assistant with a digital version of someone who is no longer alive. Charlotte describes her experiences with the platforms as well as complex ethical issues regarding consent and privacy revolving around the platforms.

Emotions Aren’t the Enemy of Good Decision-Making

Our emotions tend to be difficult and complex when we have to make difficult and complex decisions. Our instinct is to avoid these uncomfortable feelings, so we rush through the decision-making process. However, this can lead to poor decisions. Many times, we fail to solve the problem at hand and end up feeling worse as a result. It’s an unproductive feedback loop that bookends our decisions with negative feelings.

This article discusses how you can use these emotional bookends to make better decisions.

Asian innovators fight online hate, and lies as tech giants fall short

Tarunima Prabhakar, the co-founder of India-based technology firm Tattle, built a simple tool to tackle misinformation. Prabhakar archived content from fact-checking sites and news outlets and used machine learning to automate the verification process.

Tattle's team compiled a list of offensive words and phrases used commonly online, which are blurred on users' timelines. In addition, people can add their own words.

This web-based tool is available to students, researchers, journalists, and academics, she said.

Inside The Crypto Human Trafficking Rings In Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos

Over the past few weeks, Cambodian authorities have begun raiding condos and hotels in Phnom Penh suspected of running illegal online activities, as reported by VOD English.

Online betting or crypto fraud usually traps victims into managing fake social media profiles and collecting valuable personal information from other internet users. They target potential victims using WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter, enticing them into crypto investments and online betting scams. Suprita Anupam interviewed the victims who got out, and how they fell prey to these online scams.

Cambodia telecoms ministry launches online portal

"Go Digital Cambodia" was launched by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications to promote the development of digital knowledge and the effective use of digital systems in daily life.

The ministry has also organized a competition to produce educational video content under two topics: "One day in the digital world" and "Keeping Facebook accounts secure".

In addition to the cash prizes, the winners will also have the opportunity to become educational content producers for the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.