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Kick Off Meeting Notes

Digital Asia Hub formally launched the Platform Futures Expert Network initiative with a members-only meeting (online) on February 3, 2021. The meeting notes below capture some of the highlights of the discussion with all comments from members anonymized in keeping with the Chatham House rule.
Platform Futures

Internet Society Foundation Awards $1M in Research Grants Studying the Future of the Internet

From the environment to the economy, the Internet is reshaping and disrupting several sectors of our society. What might future patterns of disruption look like? How will these changes affect all of us, particularly those on the margins of society? What new solutions can we generate today, to address the challenges of tomorrow?

Streaming series @ Aksioma: (re)programming: strategies for self-renewal


(re)programming is a season of close encounters with world-class thinkers debating key issues, from infrastructure and energy to community and AI, hosted by the Spanish author Marta Peirano and live-streamed every third Monday of the month.

The government will guard Biden’s Peloton from hackers. What about the rest of us?

Wikipedia Embraces First-of-Its Kind Universal Code of Conduct, Conceived For The New Internet Era

February 2, 2021. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that administers Wikipedia, launched a first-of-its-kind Universal Code of Conduct that expands on the project’s existing policies to create a global set of community standards for addressing negative behavior on the site.

Progetto Erasmus+ STRATEGYHACK

Page Type: newsProgetto Erasmus+ STRATEGYHACK
Hacking Institutional Strategy for Rapidly Deployed Digital Education
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Von Würzburg in die Welt

Was arbeiten Absolventen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)? Um den Studierenden verschiedene Perspektiven vorzustellen, hat Michaela Thiel, Geschäftsführerin des zentralen Alumni-Netzwerks, ausgewählte Ehemalige befragt. Diesmal ist Alumna Dr. Franziska Rieß an der Reihe. Sie hat an der JMU Biologie studiert. Heute arbeitet sie als Director Process Improvement bei der eResearch Technology GmbH in Estenfeld.

Soutenance de thèse de Cristiano Therrien

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer que le vendredi 5 février aura lieu la soutenance de thèse de doctorat en droit de Cristiano Therrien, qui fût dirigé par le professeur Pierre Trudel. Sa thèse s’intitule : «Law in the Present Future : Approaching the Legal Imaginary of Smart Cities with Science (and) Fiction ».

Membres du Jury

The Week in Internet News: Cook Blasts Social Media Algorithms

Disinformation bots: Apple CEO Tim Cook raised concerns about social media algorithms promoting disinformation during a speech at an international privacy conference, ZDNet reports.

​NTU Singapore team develops portable device that creates 3D images of skin in 10 minutes

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The Coronavirus Variants and The Vaccine: A Race Between Team Covid and Team Human

Alternative ways to credit: An advantage for the disadvantaged?

ML-based credit scoring systems could facilitate wider financial inclusion on the market for credit. Yet, automated consumer profiling threatens to reinforce rather than resolve financial inequalities. Consumers’ rights, privacy and autonomy are undermined in a fast-paced online environment mined with manipulative UX-patterns. Consumer autonomy on the market for credit In the blogpost 1 we argued…

100° Nexa Lunch Seminar - Produzione etica dei dataset per l’intelligenza artificiale: il ruolo della documentazione

Page Type: Eventlunch28 settembre 2022
Marco Rondina (Politecnico di Torino)
INCONTRO IN PRESENZA e ONLINE
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OUT NOW: TOD#40 Covid-19 From The Margins

Theory on Demand #40
COVID-19 from the Margins.
Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
Edited by Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero

 

Zukünftiger Unipräsident stellt seine Vizes vor

Am 31. März 2021 tritt Unipräsident Professor Alfred Forchel nach einer knapp zwölfjährigen Amtszeit in den Ruhestand; am 1. April übernimmt sein Nachfolger Professor Paul Pauli, Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Psychologie I, die Amtsgeschäfte. Jetzt hat Pauli der Öffentlichkeit die Vizepräsidentinnen und Vizepräsidenten vorgestellt, mit denen er in den nächsten Jahren gemeinsam die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) leiten will.

Ex-aluna da FGV Direito Rio, Marcela Nogueira é nomeada para a Comissão Especial de Estudos em Compliance da OAB-SP.

A ex-aluna da FGV DIREITO RIO, Marcela Nogueira Reis, foi nomeada como membro efetivo da Comissão Especial de Estudos em Compliance da OAB-SP.

One Law, Six Hurdles: Congress's First Attempt to Regulate Speech Amplification in PADAA

Device Seizures in Lebanon: Assessing the Legal Framework concerning device seizures [Report]

We have witnessed in the last couple of years a striking increase in the number of devices seized by security agencies in Lebanon, a phenomenon that became more pronounced following the October 2019 uprising. When it comes to these seizures, the legal framework is vague and often exploited or circumvented[...]

The Turkish Exporters Assembly Tells Us About Turkey’s Digital Transformation, and How to Stay Future-Ready

Portulans staff interviewed Global Innovation Index partner, Mr. İsmail Gülle, Chairman of the Turkiye Ihracatçılar Meclisi (the Turkish Exporters Assembly, TIM), about the Turkey’s digital transformation and innovation culture. How does Turkey stay ready for the digital future? Read our Network Readiness Analysis of Turkey.

Open Call for Case Studies – Digital Higher Education

Apply to be a case study in a pioneering research project on the digitalisation of higher education in Europe Are you interested in learning more about digital higher education?Do you work at a European higher education institution? The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society invites you to participate in an innovative research project,…
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