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Martin Hilbert

Martin Hilbert (born in 1977) is a social scientist who is a professor at the University of California where he chairs the campus-wide emphasis on Computational Social Science.[3] He studies societal digitalization. His work is recognized in academia for the first study that assessed how much information there is in the world;[4] in public policy for having designed the first digital action plan with the governments of Latin America and the Caribbean at the United Nations (eLAC Action Plans); and in the popular media for having alerted about the intervention of Cambridge Analytica a year before the scandal broke.[5]

Martin Hilbert
Hilbert presenting at Puerto de Ideas
Born1977 (age 46–47)
NationalityGerman - USA
Alma materUniversity of Southern California (PhD)
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg (Dr. rer.pol.)
Known forBig Data [1]
Information explosion
eLAC Action Plans.[2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Social Science, Information Theory, Complex Systems, Information Society
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
Doctoral advisorsManuel Castells (2012)
Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (2006)

Career and research

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Hilbert served as Economic Affairs Officer of the United Nations Secretariat for 15 years (UN ECLAC), where he created the Information Society Program for Latin America and the Caribbean[6] He conceptualized the design of the eLAC Action Plans, which has led to six consecutive generations of digital development agendas for Latin America and the Caribbean (2005-2025).[7]

Hilbert studies the conditions and effects of digitalization (information & communication) and algorithmification (knowledge)[8] on human processes and societal dynamics. His research has found audiences in communication science,[9] information science,[10] international development,[11] evolution and ecology,[12] technological forecasting,[13] complexity science,[14][15] network science,[16] economics,[17][18] physics,[19] psychology,[20] women’s studies[21] and multidisciplinary science.[22]

Consulting

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Hilbert has provided technical assistance in the field of digital development to more than 20 countries and contributed to publicly traded companies as digital strategist. He has consulted with governments and companies, especially in Latin America, which has earned him media-titles like “guru of big data”.[23][24]

Teaching

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Hilbert's university courses are available as MOOCs on Coursera. His teachings on "Digital Technology & Social Change" consists of an introduction to the digital age, being informed by his hands-on experience at the United Nations and his regular consultancy work.[25] His methods course is an introduction to the scientific method, informed by complexity science, executed with computational tools and called “University of California Computational Social Science”. It was the first UC-wide online course that involves faculty members from all 10 UC campuses (17 different lecturers).[26].

References

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  1. ^ Hilbert, Martin; López, Priscila (2011). "The World's Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information". Science. 332 (6025): 60–65. Bibcode:2011Sci...332...60H. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. PMID 21310967. S2CID 206531385.
  2. ^ eLAC Action Plans: A personal account; http://www.martinhilbert.net/elac-action-plans-a-personal-account
  3. ^ UC Davis Designated Emphasis in Computational Social Science (graduate program); https://css.ucdavis.edu/
  4. ^ Hilbert M, López P (April 2011). "The world's technological capacity to store, communicate, and compute information" (PDF). Science. 332 (6025): 60–5. Bibcode:2011Sci...332...60H. doi:10.1126/science.1200970. PMID 21310967. S2CID 206531385. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  5. ^ Premio Periodismo de Excelencia, Premio de entrevista escrita, https://www.martinhilbert.net/journalism-of-excellence-award/
  6. ^ United Nations ECLAC, Information & Communication Technologies https://www.cepal.org/en/subtopics/information-and-communications-technologies-icts
  7. ^ https://www.martinhilbert.net/elac-action-plans-a-personal-account/
  8. ^ Online Course "Digital Technology & Social Change": 2.4 What is Digitalization & Algorithmification? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGppM3cXXYU&list=PLtjBSCvWCU3qDvWiJKdOqO1XImr2PsUNB&index=13
  9. ^ Hilbert, M., & Darmon, D. (2020). Largescale Communication Is More Complex and Unpredictable with Automated Bots. Journal of Communication, 70(5).
  10. ^ Hilbert, M., Thakur, A., Flores, P. M., Zhang, X., Bhan, J. Y., Bernhard, P., & Ji, F. (2024). 8–10% of algorithmic recommendations are ‘bad’, but… an exploratory risk-utility meta-analysis and its regulatory implications. International Journal of Information Management, 75, 102743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102743
  11. ^ Hilbert, M. (2010). When is Cheap, Cheap Enough to Bridge the Digital Divide? Modeling Income Related Structural Challenges of Technology Diffusion in Latin America. World Development, 38(5), 756–770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.11.019
  12. ^ Gillings, M. R., Hilbert, M., & Kemp, D. J. (2016). Information in the Biosphere: Biological and Digital Worlds. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 31(3), 180–189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.12.013
  13. ^ Hilbert, M., Miles, I., & Othmer, J. (2009). Foresight tools for participative policy-making in inter-governmental processes in developing countries: Lessons learned from the eLAC Policy Priorities Delphi. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76(7), 880–896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2009.01.001
  14. ^ Hilbert, M. (2014). Scale-free power-laws as interaction between progress and diffusion. Complexity, 19(4), 56–65. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21485
  15. ^ Hilbert, M. (2017). Complementary Variety: When Can Cooperation in Uncertain Environments Outperform Competitive Selection? Complexity. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5052071
  16. ^ Hilbert, M., Oh, P., & Monge, P. (2016). Evolution of what? A network approach for the detection of evolutionary forces. Social Networks, 47, 38–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2016.04.003
  17. ^ Hilbert, M. (2016). Formal definitions of information and knowledge and their role in growth through structural change. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 38, 69–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2016.03.004
  18. ^ Hilbert, M. (2021). Information Theory for Human and Social Processes. Entropy, 23(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23010009
  19. ^ Hilbert, M., & Darmon, D. (2020). How Complexity and Uncertainty Grew with Algorithmic Trading. Entropy, 22(5), Article 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22050499
  20. ^ Hilbert, M. (2012). Toward a synthesis of cognitive biases: How noisy information processing can bias human decision making. Psychological Bulletin, 138(2), 211–237. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0025940
  21. ^ Hilbert, M. (2011). Digital gender divide or technologically empowered women in developing countries? A typical case of lies, damned lies, and statistics. Women’s Studies International Forum, 34(6), 479–489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2011.07.001
  22. ^ Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60–65. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1200970
  23. ^ Martin Hilbert, gurú del Big Data: “La democracia no está preparada para la era digital y está siendo destruida.” (2017). BBC News Mundo. Retrieved June 21, 2024, from https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-39511606
  24. ^ El gurú del “big data”: ‘Facebook sabe más de ti con 250 likes que tú mismo.’ (2017, November 27). ELMUNDO. https://www.elmundo.es/papel/futuro/2017/11/27/5a1ab61322601dd03b8b4603.html
  25. ^ Coursera & UC Davis (2023) "Digital Technology and Social Change Specialization" https://www.coursera.org/specializations/digital-technology-and-social-change
  26. ^ Coursera & UC Davis (2018) "Computational Social Science” https://www.coursera.org/specializations/computational-social-science-ucdavis
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