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

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

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

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

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

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Pada 30 Juli 2025, Safer Internet Lab (SAIL) berkesempatan untuk berpartisipasi dalam sesi diskusi daring bertema “Generative AI dan Disinformasi Elektoral” yang diselenggarakan oleh Pantau Hoaks.Diskusi ini merupakan bagian lanjutan dari rangkaian workshop yang sebelumnya digelar oleh Pantau Hoaks bersama para jurnalis dan aktivis, dengan tujuan memperdalam pemahaman tentang disinformasi dalam konteks pemilu.Dalam sesi tersebut, Arya Fernandes, Kepala Departemen Politik dan Perubahan Sosial (CSIS Indonesia), mewakili SAIL untuk memaparkan

Season 1 of Digitalgelddickicht approaches the topic of the digital euro from as many angles as possible, explaining, trying to understand and asking questions. With the help of interviewees from academia, representatives of commercial banks and the ECB, civil society and the EU Parliament, it sheds light on as many aspects as possible and adopts different perspectives in a total of 10 episodes.

In the second season, we look at small digital money. There are a large number of digital payment transactions that we hardly notice. The reason for this is that the sums involved are small. Small and tiny amounts: a subscription here, a tip, a one-off payment for a service there. In this podcast, we examine the weight of small money along different modes of digital payment. On the one hand, small digital money is expensive as soon as it starts moving, as the technical and transactional costs are relatively high compared to a giro transfer or handling coins.

Hackers, data leaks, dark patterns and new forms of money present us with security challenges that go far beyond personal accounts.

Auf Basis einer internen Auswertung zählt die Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) im Shanghai-Ranking 2025 zu den 220 besten Universitäten weltweit. In Bayern belegt sie Platz drei und bundesweit gehört sie zu den Top 15.

The Drift to Digital: Cashlessness, CBDCs and the Narratives We Need

Brett Scott in an interview with Caroline Marburger

21 August 2025

Cash is disappearing — not with a bang, but with the quiet hum of terminals, apps, and silent payment flows. Brett Scott argues that there is a systemic drift toward cashlessness, shaped not by a single decision-maker but by the forces of global capitalism. Still, the shift is often narrated as a matter of consumer choice.

Un événement scientifique de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal, appuyé par le Fonds Stellari, la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les droits humains et la justice réparatrice internationale, la Chaire en gouvernance et droit du commerce international, la Commission internationale de Juristes (section canadienne), et l’Université de Messine (Italie).

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MOT D’OUVERTURE : Prof. Stéphane Beaulac
 
13h00 à 14h30 : PREMIERE DISCUSSION – TRUMP ET LA PRIMAUTE DU DROIT (« RULE OF LAW »)

Exploring definitions, algorithmic amplification, and detection, this article challenges assumptions about disinformation and calls for stronger research evidence.
The post Debunking assumptions about disinformation: Rethinking what we think we know appeared first on HIIG.

Dans le cadre des Soirées de la justice du CRDP, nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la conférence « Fighting the Backlog: How Ontario’s Courts are Using Summary Processes to Address Civil Justice Delays ».

Date : Mercredi, 12 novembre 2025
Heure : 16h30-18h
Lieu: Salon François-Chevrette (A-3464) + Zoom

(Conférence en anglais)

Decades of political interference, mismanagement, and corruption have rendered Lebanon’s telecom sector dysfunctional. These systemic failures left users with weak and overpriced services, discouraged investments, and slowed down state operations—all at a time when tech sectors have become the backbone for strong economies.