DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

“Artificial Intelligence” in Switzerland 2024: Rapid Diffusion and Increasing Digital Inequality

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Two Awards at SACM 2025 for the Media Change and Innovation Division

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Internet Use as Everyday Religion on the Rise, Cyborgization Still in its Early Stages

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

O LAPIN, o IDEC e o IP.rec apresentaram ao Governo Federal suas contribuições à Consulta Pública sobre o Regime Especial de Tributação para Serviços de Data Centers (Redata).

O documento propõe diretrizes para que a digitalização avance em consonância com a justiça socioambiental, assegurando transparência, controle social e auditoria pública no uso de energia, água e outros recursos naturais.

Initiated by the Quantitative Economics Division we have instituted a bi-weekly exchange of thoughts and ideas between researchers from the Departments of Economics and Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. The kick-off meeting on November 12, 2025  is dedicated to acquiring a “common language” by working through the book „Deep Learning“ by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville. We look forward to deepening our knowledge on current topics together with professors, post-docs and PhD students from different fields. If you are interested in joining, please contact Martin Wagner (QED).

Digital payments have long been part of everyday life—whether we pay by card, cell phone, or PayPal. But every time we make a payment, we leave behind data tracks. In this opening episode of the season “Secure Money” we ask: Who actually sees this data? Why is payment data so much more sensitive than other data tracks? And how is it used, in particular by the current players in the payment market? Is a vague unease or indifference justified – because proper knowledge about what happens in the background is no given.

Dans le cadre de la Semaine de la recherche étudiante qui a lieu du 16 au 20 mars 2026, à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal, aura lieu le 1er concours de présentations des recherches des étudiant.es du CRDP.

On behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I  welcome today’s announcement by the European Commission on the creation of the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC).  It is a hopeful moment for Europe, where the values of thousands of communities that have worked for years in a different way of doing and governing technology,...

As part of this year’s “Semester Warm-Up” event in the Foundation Hall of the University of Klagenfurt, the Spitzensport & Studium program, which has been running successfully since 2007, was ceremonially extended for another five years.

Content moderation combines human labour and algorithmic systems, exposing global inequalities in who controls what we see online.
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UPDATE (29 October 2025)  – Last month, Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good (DPG) by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).