1 November 2023, San Francisco – The Wikimedia Foundation, the global nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia, today announced that Kathy Collins will be joining its Board of Trustees – the board is composed of Wikimedia community volunteers and external experts to help guide the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
In your view, what are the main driving forces supporting or undermining trust towards technologies today? Do any specific global issues and developments come to mind?
Over the last few decades, we have seen a global erosion of trust. It goes far beyond just technologies. We have seen trust diminish in international relations, for instance, as evidenced by the collapse of multilateral disciplines in trade and investment. We have seen trust diminish within nations, for instance vis-à-vis government authorities, justice, the police. We even saw trust diminish vis-à-vis science.
“Recent airstrikes amidst relentless aggression have severely damaged the last-standing international routes connecting Gaza to the outside world, in addition to the already-destroyed routes during earlier attacks. This led to a total communications blackout in the beloved Gaza Strip,” the Palestinian Telecommunications Company “Paltel” announced before shutting down its internet services on October 27.
Each year, Portulans Institute collaborates with Knowledge Partners on the production of the Network Readiness Index. Knowledge Partners are public or private institutions that are passionate about the overall goal of using technology for the good of all. They actively engage with the use of technology to enhance competitiveness, to further development and to support an inclusive and sustainable growth agenda.
La professeure Sule Tomkinson fera partie du panel d’ouverture de la SOAR’s 35th Annual Conference – The Administrative Forest: Pathways to Justice, organisée par la Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators et qui se tiendra à Toronto le 02 novembre 2023.
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 steht ihr Dr. Alexander Wolz Rede und Antwort.
A coalition including Meedan, SMEX and WITNESS aims to strengthen capacity to document, debunk, archive, and preserve critical information in Gaza
Nikita Aggarwal and Rory Van Loo, The Chicago Tribune, October 20, 2023
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Join us at our next DMRC Visitor Seminar, led by visiting Professor, Dogan Kesdogan from Regensburg University in Germany, who is set to unravel the fascinating possibilities of Anonymous Communication.
What is the idea of net anonymity, is it redeemable and what are the consequences of the methods?
Avec plaisir, nous vous partageons le rapport du groupe de travail Legaltech du Conseil national des barreaux sur la legal tech dans le domaine de la jurimétrie. Ce rapport a pour objectif d’établir une cartographie des différentes Legaltechs œuvrant dans le domaine de la « Justice prédictive » en France et à l’étranger, dans le but d’informer les avocats sur la pertinence des technologies employées et leur utilité.
Die Geheimnisse alter Schriften entschlüsseln, in die Welt künstlicher Intelligenz eintauchen und literarische Schätze entdecken – das und noch viel mehr können Besuchende am 11. November von 14 bis 18 Uhr an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU). Dann feiert das Institut für deutsche Philologie im Philosophiegebäude am Hubland sein 150. Jubiläum mit einem Tag der offenen Tür. „Wir freuen uns sehr auf das Fest und alle Gäste“, so Prof. Regina Toepfer, Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für deutsche Philologie und Initiatorin der Feierlichkeiten.
