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

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

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

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

By Sukriti, Jhalak Kakkar, Shashank Mohan Introduction The Indian government gave formal written inputs to the Elements Paper and actively participated in its online public consultation. However, it did not provide written inputs to subsequent drafts for the WSIS+20 outcome document. Notably, India’s formal written input to the Elements Paper was separate from the G77’s […]

Shortly before the end of the 2025/26 winter semester, the Carinthian Academic Championships in gymnastics took place once again. The competition was divided into the following three categories: ‘External’, ‘Sports Students’ and ‘Club Gymnasts’.
The performances were generally very impressive. All teams participated with great ambition and commitment. Right from the start, the teams’ entrance and the perfect choreography rounded off this event in an impressive manner.

The American company Oracle and Lebanon’s Minister of State for Technology and Artificial Intelligence, Kamal Shehadeh, recently signed an undisclosed but strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) to train 50,000 people from the private and public sector in different technologies.

While the agreement was framed as a “free grant” to suggest an achievement for the ministry, it comes with its own set of unique challenges to Lebanon’s digital sovereignty. 

This course offers an alternative to the exercise sessions accompanying the lectures on Advanced Econometrics in the PhD programme at the School of Economics and Business of University of Ljubljana so local students enrolled for that (e.g., via CESEENet) don’t neet to travel to Ljubljana for the exercises.
Lectures and exam(s) need to be attended in Ljubljana for a positive overall grade and being awarded 8 ECTS.

Röntgen war der erste von insgesamt 14 Wissenschaftlern, die an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) geforscht oder gelehrt haben und mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet wurden. Ihre Leistungen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung „Ausgezeichnet! 14 Würzburger Nobelpreisträger – geniale Köpfe, die die Welt veränderten“, die 2026 an mehreren öffentlich zugänglichen Orten in Würzburg zu sehen ist.

Webseiten von Behörden, Mitteilungen der Bank oder Briefe von der Versicherung sind bisweilen kompliziert geschrieben. Und zwar so kompliziert, dass selbst gut gebildete Menschen mit Deutsch als Muttersprache den Inhalt schwer oder gar nicht verstehen.
Wie muss es da erst den sechs Millionen Menschen in Deutschland gehen, die dringend auf eine leicht verständliche Sprache angewiesen sind? Menschen zum Beispiel, die Deutsch als Fremdsprache lernen, die kognitiv eingeschränkt sind oder Lernschwierigkeiten haben.

Telecommunication prices in Syria have increased nearly a thousandfold, drawing public attention and concern. However, the Syrian Ministry of Telecommunications tried to distance itself from the decision in an attempt to absorb the public anger.

Questions have multiplied about the legality of this move and its compatibility with Syria’s current economic and living standards. Others have also questioned whether it would be possible to legally hold telecom companies accountable to prompt them to reverse their decisions.

Bread&Net took place in Beirut in October 2025, bringing together more than 550 participants from across the West Asia and North Africa (WANA) region and beyond. Since then, the political conditions in which the gathering happened have not eased; far from it, they have intensified. 

Foto: Christina SupanzAfter five years, the FWF doc.funds doctoral school concludes with an outstanding track record: Eleven successful PhDs, a strong gender balance, and extensive international networks mark the completion of this program.

This post is authored by Jason Pielemeier, Executive Director, Global Network Initiative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being sewn into all aspects of our society. It is being deployed in networks, apps, vehicles, schools, and hospitals. This patchwork of technological advancement offers many promises. And yet the tailors stitching it together are mostly working for a […]