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TechTank Episode 63: Reclaiming local news in the age of the internet

Courtney Radsch, The Brookings Institution, February 13, 2023

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Fourth Substantive Session (Part II)

Sukanya Thapliyal Introduction  In Part I of this two-part blog series, we provided our readers a brief overview and observations from the discussions pertaining to the second reading of the provisions on criminalisation of offences under the proposed convention during the Fourth Session of the Ad-hoc Committee. In Part II of the series, we will […]

Announcement

As of September 2022, the Lab will continue its operation now as part of the Institute for Democracy at UMB, which will enable us to even better advance our mission. The change will not affect any of our ongoing or planned activities. We will, however, until further notice, cease updating this website and some of our social media channels.

New podcast – Media Freedom Act: how to fix media plurality

Professor Elda Brogi, Scientific Coordinator at the CMPF, speaks in the last episode of the Media Lab Series curated by Information Labs.

In her speech, she focuses on the “media plurality test” put forward in Article 21 of the European Media Freedom Act and on the European Board for Media Services.

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The Voluntary Undertaking Provision: A Flawed Endeavor

This post is authored by Tejaswita Kharel* In order to ease the enforcement process for data protection laws, various jurisdictions such as Singapore and Australia have incorporated voluntary undertaking provisions. Such a provision encourages organisations to self regulate and adopt accountable practices. It is also believed that the incorporation of such a provision in data […]

Séminaire Participation et citoyenneté numériques

Avec Nathalie Paton, 15 février 2023, 14h à 17h.
L’article Séminaire Participation et citoyenneté numériques est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

New Border Force unit to deploy more surveillance tech in Channel

Volume 20

Weniger ist mehr

Die Fähigkeit, Bakterien genetisch zu verändern, ist der Schlüssel zur Erforschung der mikrobiellen Welt. Genom-Editierung – also das Bearbeiten des Erbguts wie beispielsweise DNA – ist unverzichtbar, um neue Antibiotika entwickeln und Bakterien als Miniaturfabriken für die nachhaltige Produktion von Chemikalien, Materialien und Therapeutika nutzen zu können. Werkzeuge, die auf der Genschere CRISPR basieren, haben sich hierbei als hilfreich erwiesen, da sie es ermöglichen, verschiedene Bakterien schnell, einfach und zuverlässig zu verändern.

Celebrating eight years of AfroCROWD diversifying Wikipedia

Wikipedia is known for being the world’s largest encyclopedia that anyone can edit—but that does not mean everyone does.

Black artists belong on Wikipedia — Black Lunch Table is making it happen

The school lunchroom can conjure up all kinds of memories. For the founders of the non-profit Black Lunch Table (BLT), it brought inspiration.  

Neutrality of ChatGPT

With ChatGPT (GPT stands for Generative Pre-Trained Transformer and belongs to the Natural Language Processing models), a language model has been published for free use, which creates texts in significantly better quality than the systems that have been publicly available up to now. Accordingly, there was a great - especially media - response. However, the expectations attached to the system are sometimes too euphoric.

The United Nations Ad-hoc Committee for Development of an International Cybercrime Convention: Overview and Key Observations from Fourth Substantive Session

Sukanya Thapliyal Last month, the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi had the opportunity to participate as a stakeholder in the Fourth Session of the United Nations Ad-hoc Committee, tasked to elaborate a comprehensive international convention on countering the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) for criminal purposes (“the Ad Hoc […]

DMRC Linkage Success

Congratulations to DMRC Program Leader Professor Michael Dezuanni and Chief Investigator Dr T.J Thomson for their successful ARC Linkage grant led by Associate Professor Tanya Notley (University of Western Sydney). The linkage project team have secured $507,970 funding for their project – Addressing Misinformation with Media Literacy through Cultural Institutions.

Network Readiness Index webinar discusses youth and digital transformation, challenges to media literacy and active citizenship

February 8, 2023
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Was tun mit all den Daten?

Wissen aus der Uni für den Einsatz im beruflichen Alltag – mit dem vom Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF) und dem Bayerischen Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst geförderten Projekt ESF-BuDanu ist das möglich. Die Lehrstühle für BWL und Wirtschaftsinformatik sowie für Künstliche Intelligenz und Wissenssysteme der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) schulen im Rahmen dieses Angebots kostenfrei Arbeitnehmende bayerischer Unternehmen und Studierende in ihrem Umgang mit digitalen Daten.

Séminaire Politiques des communs numériques

Avec Vincent Bachelet, 17 février 2023, 11h à 13h, à Paris ou en visioconférence.
L’article Séminaire Politiques des communs numériques est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.