RightsCon 2026, one of the biggest in-person convenings for digital rights, was de facto cancelled after Zambia’s government postponed it via public announcement, without prior communication with Access Now, the organizer of the event. With staff and some participants already on the ground in Lusaka, and others about to board their planes, this last-minute decision created chaos.  

Foto: aau/MüllerBrokenArm, a student team led by Nadezhda Varzonova, will compete in the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) from 2 to 4 June 2026. The Klagenfurt team enters the competition as one of the favourites after achieving the highest overall score in the qualification round.

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

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

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

Generative AI is Taking Over Everyday Life in Switzerland: From Experimentation to Regular Use

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

In one of our very first AI Learning Labs projects, we are teaming up to explore how to design a chatbot that draws on reliable science and systemic social analysis
The post How can we build a responsible climate chatbot? first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

By Xiaoquan (Chelsea) Zhong

How can we recognize, describe, and make use of symmetries—from nature to abstract mathematics?

Giant pandas are protected as global ‘natural heritage’ and as China’s ‘national treasure.’ Christof Lammer shows how, behind the spotlight on panda diplomacy, cultural ideas about kinship – and the genealogical, genetic, and behavioural measurements built on them – redirect species conservation.

Welche Folgen hat es für unsere Demokratie, wenn Parteien verstärkt über soziale Medien und Apps kommunizieren und Unterstützer mobilisieren? Diese Frage werfen Geographen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg und der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in einer jüngst veröffentlichten Studie auf.
Digitaler Wandel erreicht die Parteizentralen

The UNESCO Chair on Intercultural Competences hosted by Stellenbosch University invites you to join the next session of its Webinar Series:
Intercultural Competence as a Foundation for Pan-African Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution: Lessons from WPDI’s work in South Africa, Uganda and South Sudan since 2012
Date: 21 May 2026
Time: 3 PM CAT