Lebanon is facing its fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2025, a critical moment that we can leverage to report on the state of digital rights in the country. At a time when the internet infrastructure is still recovering from Israel’s devastating war and as online freedoms face further restrictions, SMEX resorts to the UPR to advocate for meaningful digital rights reforms before the UN Human Rights Council. 

DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

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

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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

China, Russia and India are building national platform alternatives to reduce their dependence on Big Tech. What can Europe learn from their strategies?
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Die gerade erschiene Ausgabe des renommierten THE World University Ranking vergleicht 2.191 Universitäten aus 115 Ländern und Gebieten. Die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) belegt darin Platz 179 im weltweiten Vergleich, Platz 17 in Deutschland und Platz 3 in Bayern. Damit reiht sie sich unter den besten Universitäten des Landes ein.
Vielzitierte Publikationen und Praxiswissen

On October 6, 2025, Jutta Rath successfully defended her dissertation entitled “On the Asymptotic Structure of Powers of Monomial Ideals.” She earned her doctorate as part of the FWF doc.funds doctoral school “Modeling-Analysis-Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic systems.”

HIIG receives funding from three foundations to advance digitalisation research on democracy, technology, law, innovation, and AI.
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“As climate change worsens, interest is growing in the link between intellectual property protection and environmental sustainability. At the heart of these discussions are concerns that strong IP protection may hinder sustainable practices.

The sixth episode of ShareCast is about open source software. This is software under free licences that grants its users four freedoms: to run the software for any purpose, to examine how it works and thus also the source code, to adapt it to their own needs, and to redistribute the software, even in modified versions. This distinguishes it from software that the open source movement refers to as ‘proprietary’ or ‘closed source software,’ which does not offer these ‘fundamental freedoms.’ But how exactly is collaboration and sharing carried out here?

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

HIIG is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to lead on establishing a new area of research dedicated to addressing the challenges currently facing democracy in the digital age.
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The 4th Alps-Adriatic Inverse Problems Workshop took place at the Department of Mathematics of the Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt during October 2-3, 2025, with 36 participants, 22 contributed talks and two invited lectures, held by Tatiana Bubba, University of Ferrara and Vincent Duval, INRIA.