The Quest for Scientific Methods: Sociology of Law, Jurimetrics and Legal Informatics, by IRI’s Director Peter Wahlgren, is available at Bloomsbury Collections – Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law – An Homage to Reza Banakar The… Read More New article by IRI Director Peter Wahlgren | The Quest for Scientific Methods: Sociology of Law, Jurimetrics and Legal Informatics

The Quest for Scientific Methods: Sociology of Law, Jurimetrics and Legal Informatics, by IRI’s Director Peter Wahlgren, is available at Bloomsbury Collections – Combining the Legal and the Social in Sociology of Law – An Homage to Reza Banakar The… Read More New article by IRI Director Peter Wahlgren | The Quest for Scientific Methods: Sociology of Law, Jurimetrics and Legal Informatics

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We, the undersigned organizations, express our deepest concern regarding the Iraqi authorities’ recent campaign to crack down on … Joint Statement: Iraqi authorities must cease their chilling crackdown on free speechRead More »

On August 4, 2022, Somali activist Naciima Abwaan Qorane woke up to find the word “Remembering” next to … Somalia: Facebook “Remembering” activists while still aliveRead More »

On Wednesday 8 March 2023, Amsterdam Alternative is organising a discussion on collective digital property. This AA Talk is organised in the context of the web documentary AA is making about collective ownership. During this evening, we will discuss what digital collective ownership is or can be. We will discuss ideas that deal with ownership, use, management, community, knowledge and development around digital assets. Think cables, servers, systems, applications, hosting, privacy, social media, hacking, open source and licensing.

SMEX launched the inaugural Mariam Al-Shafei Fellowship on Technology and Human Rights in November 2022 to bring new … SMEX Launches the Inaugural Mariam Al-Shafei Fellowship on Technology and Human RightsRead More »

Mit einem zweitägigen Workshop, zugleich ein Kick-off Meeting, haben die Universitäten Mainz und Würzburg die deutsche Beteiligung am NASA-Satelliten COSI vorbereitet. Aus Mainz ist die Gruppe von Professor Uwe Oberlack vom Exzellenzcluster PRISMA+ beteiligt, aus Würzburg die Gruppe um den Astrophysiker Dr. Thomas Siegert.

All of the information found on Wikipedia is created and shared by volunteers around the world. However, since 2020, only 15% of these contributors are women. This imbalance has a real impact on how information is covered and presented on the world’s largest online encyclopedia.

It’s called the ‘great man theory‘: the idea that large swaths of human history can be explained by the actions of so-called great men. 

These days, that theory has been resoundingly discredited—but popular history’s long reliance on it has contributed towards an imbalance of stories told about women in the history learned in schools and elsewhere. 

While three-quarters of the world’s online population today comes from the Global South (Asia, Africa, and Latin America) and nearly half are women, most public knowledge online has been written by white men from the Global North. The feminist collective and Wikimedia volunteer group, “Whose Knowledge?,” is working to change this. 

Can digital supply chains help the industry to become more sustainable? Researchers at the Research Institute for Sustainability take a look at its opportunities and risks.
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Was arbeiten Absolventinnen und Absolventen der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU)? Um Studierenden verschiedene Perspektiven vorzustellen, hat Michaela Thiel, Geschäftsführerin des zentralen Alumni-Netzwerks, ausgewählte Ehemalige befragt. Diesmal ist Frank Müller an der Reihe.

28 February 2023, San Francisco – The Wikimedia Foundation today announced Stephen LaPorte as General Counsel. Stephen was previously Deputy General Counsel at the Foundation; he has held several leadership roles in the Legal department, covering a range of legal issues including copyright, trademarks, governance, and public policy. 

Das Bayerische Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation (bidt) führt bayernweit über 30 interdisziplinär angelegte Forschungsprojekte an Universitäten, Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen durch. Sie alle eint, dass sie dazu beitragen, die Entwicklungen und Herausforderungen der digitalen Transformation besser zu verstehen. Mit der aktuellen Ausschreibungsrunde werden neue Konsortialprojekte zum digitalen Wandel gesucht.

Das bidt fördert insbesondere Projekte in drei Forschungsbereichen:

Computing the News. Data Journalism and the Search for Objectivity, 13 mars 2023, 17h à 18h.
L’article 13.3.2023 Hypertextes #14 <br>Sylvain Parasie est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

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