It is nine weeks today to the local and European Parliament elections. A lot has changed in the 4+ years since we last had a chance to pick any of our representatives; Covid, war in Europe, Brexit, the riots, etc. etc. etc. So what should we be looking out for,
A.I.
I’m in Brussels this week, and our 13 MEPs are up the road in Strasbourg voting on Europe’s first substantive piece of regulation on Artificial Intelligence, the A.I. Act. The regulation passed in a landslide - 523 of Europe’s elected reps voted for the regulation, or almost
Welcome to Issue One of The Briefing! I said I'd be brief, so I'm diving right in. We are voting in 2 referendums next week, so let's kick off with a snapshot of Irish online political ads. Energy for the referendum both off and
Thank you for signing up! The Briefing will formally launch next week; right now I am planning out the first few posts, starting to rope in a few friends to help, and getting some design work done. BUT - while you are here, one thing that is on my mind this
Thank you for asking! This is a newsletter about technology and politics, through an Irish lens. It is about two big theses of how tech and politics come together on this beautiful island of ours: 1. That technology is having a profound effect on our democracy, and this is worth