Research, field reports and essays on technology, territories and citizenship.
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From the discreet applications to the indiscreet ones, Renata Neves maps out where artificial intelligence is already present in everyday life — and the baggage of ethical, social and regulatory challenges that comes with it.
Starting a business is already hard; starting an impact business in the periphery is doubly challenging. Renata Neves examines the barriers — capital, networks and territory — and the routes for the quebrada to build enterprises with impact.
On International Women's Day, Renata Neves recalls why Brazil has so few women scientists: stereotypes that begin in childhood — and how Minas em Tech creates more opportunities for girls in technology.
Aliene Vilaça and Vivian Thais Leite look back at the first edition of Minas em Tech, in Matão: electronics, programming, 3D modelling and printing — and the final challenge of building an MVP from scratch — in the training programme exclusively for girls.
Every click becomes behavioural data: Renata Neves shows how platforms store, sell and use our emotions online to predict and influence behaviour — and what the psychic economy of algorithms means for each person's autonomy.
On the eve of the 2022 run-off, this piece examines how deliberate disinformation circulates on social media, why it weakens democracy, and what each voter can do to verify information before sharing it.
Renata Neves unpicks the three pillars of electoral disinformation in 2022 — fake news, hate speech and bots — showing how each mechanism works and how voters can defend themselves.
Leandro Lacerda starts from the story of the orca Tilikum to discuss sentience as a new ethical paradigm: what science already acknowledges about animal consciousness and suffering — and what that demands of us.
STEAM education brings together science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics in projects that start from real problems — and, in the periphery, it becomes a tool for investigation, autonomy and transformation of students' reality.