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DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

DSI Apéro Philo Session: Digital Wellbeing

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

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

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

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Talk im Turm: Göttliche Algorithmen und Putins Desinformation

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

Campus Oerlikon Lecture Series: Digital Worlds

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Michael Reiss successfully defended his cumulative dissertation  

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

Rückblick: Talk im Turm zu Desinformation und Algorithmen

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

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

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

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

Tagesspiegel Background – Gastbeitrag über die Potenziale von Data Spaces

In ihrem Gastbeitrag „Data Spaces sind keine Selbstläufer“ in der Rubrik Standpunkte des Tagesspiegel Background erklären Professor Thomas Hess, Mitglied im bidt-Direktorium und Professor für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, und Dr. Christoph Egle, Geschäftsführer des bidt, wie sich der zwischenbetriebliche Datenaustausch über Data Spaces  gestalten lässt.

[Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.6.0 AI-enhanced Version Release

We are glad to announce today the release of ODE's new version. The app is now evolving into a key companion tool in the early and critical stages of your AI journey.
The post [Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.6.0 AI-enhanced Version Release first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Join our team: Research Fellow, Global Tech Policy & AI Regulation

Location: Remote or hybrid, depending on your location.
Commitment: Part-time 
Duration: September 2025 – March 2026 
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Der Vertrauensbegriff in der interdisziplinären Forschung zur Mensch-KI-Interaktion

Seit dem Aufschwung von ChatGPT im Jahr 2022 hat generative KI Einzug in zahlreiche Anwendungsbereiche gefunden: In Sekundenschnelle kann generative KI Text, Audio, Bild und Video generieren und möglicherweise unterschiedliche Anwendungsgebiete revolutionieren – seien es KI-generierte Nachrichten im Journalismus oder im politischen Wahlkampf, als Tutor für das Aneignen von Programmierkenntnissen oder als Designhilfe von 3D-Entwürfen. Eine globale Studie von Gillespie et al.

Parental Consent: A Conundrum for Online Child Safety

Analysing India’s data protection law and its attempt at protecting children and their data This post is authored by Jhalak M. Kakkar, Shashank Mohan, and Angelina Dash. India’s data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), seeks to protect children’s data and shield them from data-linked online harms. However, two years after […]

SMEX’s Digital Safety Helpdesk Updates: Summer 2025

Women, minorities, and human rights defenders among the most targeted onlineSMEX’s Digital Safety Helpdesk supports activists, journalists, marginalized groups, and human rights defenders facing cybersecurity incidents and online threats in West Asia and North Africa. We work directly with affected individuals  to address account suspensions, doxxing, sexual blackmail, and other forms of cyberviolence, content moderation, and other issues.

Robots gain new function: algorithm automatically recognises sensors and their mathematical modelling

Justlight/Adobestock (KI generated)Robots need localisation algorithms to figure out where they are. These algorithms usually work with sensor data, which can be used to calculate their position. For engineers and researchers, figuring out how a sensor is built, what format the sensor data is in, and how the sensor is calibrated on a robot can be quite a challenge.

Hermann Einsele in die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften aufgenommen

Professor Hermann Einsele, Direktor der Medizinischen Klinik II am Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (UKW), ist neues Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Confira o relatório “Inteligência Artificial e Data Centers: A Expansão Corporativa em Tensão com a Justiça Socioambiental”

O Brasil já conta com mais de 160 data centers e deve receber investimentos bilionários no setor. Mas, junto com a inovação, essas estruturas consomem enormes quantidades de energia, água e minérios, gerando emissões, resíduos e impactos em ecossistemas e territórios tradicionais.

Wie Elternzeit das Einkommen bei Promovierten beeinflusst

Nach der Promotion müssen sich viele Neudoktorinnen und -doktoren wichtigen Berufs- und Lebensfragen stellen: Schlage ich einen wissenschaftlichen Karriereweg ein? Suche ich mir einen Beruf in der freien Wirtschaft? Und natürlich: Wie gestalte ich meine Familienplanung und Elternzeit?

International Youth Day: How are younger generations shaping the new digital era?

The 2022 edition of the Network Readiness Index explored the challenges and opportunities facing younger generations in the digital era. Today, the world is home to 1.8 billion young people aged 15 to 24 years – the largest generation of youth in history. This International Youth Day, we are unpacking some of the key ways that young people are shaping the world.
Changing the entrepreneurial landscape