Lebanon has been witnessing an ongoing, constant war for the past three years. For the most part, journalists, reporters, activists, residents, and citizens wanting to learn what was happening did not automatically turn to mainstream TV channels. Rather, they turned to WhatsApp, Meta’s messaging app widely used in the Global South by people of all ages. News channels, whether directly affiliated with a major outlet or community-led, took over, and people started relying on them for information.

Daniel WaschnigOliver Vitouch, who served as Rector of the University of Klagenfurt from 2012 to 2024 and played a pivotal role in shaping its development over many years, has been elected to serve as the new Rector of mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He will now take on the leadership of one of the world’s most prestigious universities of the arts.

Titre : La récente « réforme » de l’arbitrage de griefs au Québec : évolution ou occasion manquée?
Auteure : Anne-Julie Rolland
Résumé

Anhaltende Erschöpfung, Atemnot, Konzentrationsprobleme, Ängste oder gedrückte Stimmung: Viele Menschen leiden noch Monate nach einer Corona-Infektion unter Beschwerden, die ihren Alltag deutlich einschränken. Doch belastbare Daten, welche Behandlung wirklich hilft, sind nach wie vor rar.

Between official rhetoric promising digital transformation and AI governance, and the reality of crumbling infrastructure and the lack of effective data and privacy protection, the gap between ambitious promises and the absence of legislative implementation was laid bare at the Internet Governance Forum in Beirut.

La justice internationale est à la croisée des chemins.
Les États-Unis viennent d’imposer des sanctions à la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) en tant qu’institution. Au même moment, le prix Nobel de la paix 2026 distingue Navi Pillay, ancienne juge de la CPI, et le Parlement européen attribue le prix Sakharov 2026 à la Cour et à ses représentants. Un contraste saisissant : la justice internationale reçoit des marques de reconnaissance majeures alors que son indépendance est directement menacée.

Joint Public Consultation Submission

October 30, 2026. The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other open knowledge projects, today filed an amicus brief — or friend of the court opinion — with the Southern District Court of New York in In re: OpenAI, Inc.

Watch the full interview here.
In this interview, Portulans Institute explores the Ukrainian science diaspora and the experiences and perspectives of researchers and academics connected to Ukraine.
The conversation offers insights into the Ukrainian scientific community and the broader role of international connections in research and knowledge exchange. English and Ukrainian subtitles are available.

Gert SteinthalerThe Department of Statistics at the University of Klagenfurt is hosting Edoardo Pandolfo, a second-year PhD candidate from the MEMOTEF Department (Methods and Models for Economics, Territory and Finance) at Sapienza University of Rome, for a research visit from September 2026 to January 2027.

LPD Kärnten/HandlerThe University of Klagenfurt has once again achieved the best result in the ‘Universities/Colleges’ category in the ‘Kärnten radelt 2026’ (‘Carinthia cycles 2026’) campaign: staff and students cycled for the climate and their health, covering 30,159 kilometres and saving 5,320 kilograms of CO₂ in the process!

Visiting PhD | Wuhan University, China | September 2026 - September 2027
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How can governments turn commitments to participation, innovation and reform into improvements that citizens experience in their everyday lives?
This question connected several discussions that interested Dr Monique Bennett, Policy Dialogue Manager at Policy Innovation Lab, during a recent OECD forum.

Thando Ndita from Stellenbosch University’s Policy Innovation Lab was invited to participate in the Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers New York programme in September 2026 as a funded attendee. The programme brought together individuals working across AI, digital transformation, public health and development, providing an opportunity to build relationships with people doing similar or related work across Africa.

As Europe prepares to showcase 91 AI pilots at the upcoming EUSAiR closing event, one major question remains: where do national AI regulatory sandboxes actually stand under the EU AI Act? To find out, I examined publicly available records and national authority data across Europe. Here is what the landscape looks like today.

Which European countries have operational AI sandboxes?

Planes have landed automatically since the 1950s. Why do we still need pilots? What aviation teaches us about humans, machines and responsible automation.
The post Autopilot on, brain off? What we can learn from aviation about automation appeared first on HIIG.

Entretien avec Francesca Musiani, Propagations, 16 oct. 2026, 51 min.
L’article Câbles, protocoles, censure : qui gouverne vraiment Internet ? est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Entretien avec Francesca Musiani, Labo Société Numérique, 29 juill. 2026.
L’article La politique dans les réseaux, pouvoirs et infrastructures numériques est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Amerika am Scheideweg_ Midterms und ihre Folgen für Europa
Zwei Tage nach den richtungsweisenden Zwischenwahlen in den USA erfolgt eine erste politische Einordnung der Wahlergebnisse. Bleibt Donald Trump die Leitfigur des politischen Systems der USA oder steht seine Bewegung vor dem Niedergang?

In einer neuen Veröffentlichung in der Fachzeitschrift Nature Chemistry beschreiben Chemiker aus dem Team von Professor Holger Braunschweig von der Universität Würzburg, unterstützt durch computergestützte Arbeiten des Teams von Professor Ashwini K. Phukan an der Tezpur-Universität in Indien, dass sie eine Methode zur Herstellung und Isolierung einer Reihe überraschend stabiler Oxoborane entdeckt haben. Damit ist eine Herausforderung gelöst, die seit über 60 Jahren bestand.
Oxoborane: Herausforderung für die besten Köpfe der Chemie