Digital Planet Creators & Guests

William George Thompson is an English technology writer, best known for his weekly column in the Technology section of BBC News Online and his appearances on Click, a radio show on the BBC World Service.

Ghislaine Boddington is a British artist, curator, presenter and director specializing in body responsive technologies and immersive experiences, pioneering it as hyper-enhancement of the senses and hyper-embodiment, she also co-hosts the Click Podcast.

Gareth Mitchell is a Welsh technology journalist, lecturer and former broadcast engineer, he joined the BBC starting his career as a broadcast engineer, he presents on the BBC most notably as the host of Click, a BBC radio programme.

Podcast producer for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Former BBC Producer at the Radio Science Unit and BBC World News TV.

Dr. Cassandra Crifasi is an injury epidemiologist. Her work focuses on policies and practices that improve safety and prevent injury, with a focus on firearms.Crifasi is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and the Deputy Director of its Center for Gun Policy and Research. Her research interests include violence prevention; firearm policies and gun violence; underground gun markets; attitudes and behaviors of gun owners including safe storage and public opinion on gun policy; and the evaluation of policies that impact public safety and first responders.Crifasi received her B.S. from Central Washington University, her M.P.H. from the Drexel University School of Public Health, and her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Samantha Bradshaw is a scholar of new technology and democracy. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at American University and an Associated Faculty member at the Center for Security, Innovation and New Technology.Bradshaw received her B.A. in Political Science and Legal Studies and her M.A. in Global Governance and Global Security from the University of Waterloo, and her Ph.D. in Information, Communication and the Social Sciences from Oxford University.

Dr. Josephine C. Wolff is an Associate Professor of Cybersecurity Policy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her research focuses on liability for cybersecurity incidents, international Internet governance, cyber-insurance, cybersecurity workforce development, and the economics of information security.Wolff's writing on cybersecurity has appeared in Slate, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Wired. Her first book, "You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches," was published in 2018. Her second book, "Cyberinsurance Policy: Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks" was published in 2022. Prior to joining Fletcher, Wolff was an assistant professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a fellow at the New America Cybersecurity Initiative and Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.Wolff received her A.B. from Princeton University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.