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What It Takes to Be AI Ready
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Imagine a company precisely forecasting the return on an engagement even before a single line of code is written, or evaluating the success of its offerings from the second-order data of its target audience, or maybe building intuitive systems that can assist its senior line managers. Enticing?
I spent eight days in Mount Carmel Hospital. The psychiatric hospital is in Malta, the European island state south of Italy. It was founded as a “Lunatic Asylum” in 1861, with the aim of keeping people experiencing mental ill-health away from society rather than supporting them towards reintegration into the community. Nearly two centuries later, not much has changed.
At 7 am, the bright lights are switched on and everyone immediately has to wake up. You head to the showers, with old cabins and chipped floor tiles. The only time I had seen bathrooms looking like this was in history books about German concentration camps. Often, showers are shared and you are to shower nude near each other.
The New Pact on Migration and Asylum is a missed opportunity for people with disabilities and mental health problems. The EU must remember about the diversity of people seeking asylum and the international human rights obligations to which the EU and its member states have signed up to. The narrative of the Pact reflects an outdated medical approach to disability and must be reframed.
The European Commission has recently launched its long-awaited New Pact on Migration and Asylum. What many hoped to be a game-changer for asylum policies has been received with mixed reactions. While it leaves some room for member states to share the “burden” of incoming forced migrants in times of crisis, it also risks deepening protracted situations. Unfortunately, the Pact seems to confirm that for those hoping to find shelter in Europe, it is unlikely that the climate of the European Union (EU) will become more welcoming anytime soon.