For three years, the digilog@bw research network of the state of Baden-Württemberg conducted interdisciplinary research and critical reflection on the influence of digitization on individuals and society. In addition to the IZEW, the network included the University of Mannheim, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and, at the Tübingen site, the Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (IWM). The speaker committee consisted of Professor Thomas Fetzer from the University of Mannheim (head), Professor Michael Decker from KIT and PD Dr. Jessica Heesen from the University of Tübingen.

 Over the last months, there have been news reports on young climate activists attacking well known art works like the Mona-Lisa or Van Gogh’s Sunflowers all over Europe. (Aublanc, 2022; Dellatto, 2022; Skinner, 2022; York, 2022) At first glance, this might seem bizarre: Why attack art? Looking into the motives the activists present on their homepage helps shed a different light on the action than media coverage has focussed on.

Over the last two decades, Open Knowledge Foundation worked at the intersection of cutting-edge digital tools and a distributed network of communities and movements to serve the public interest, shaping and democratising the technologies and knowledge of our time, making its powerful combination “ours” and testing them in different fields. 

Wie unterscheidet sich die Bereitschaft zur Datenpreisgabe beispielsweise in Japan, den USA oder Nigeria zu Ländern der Europäischen Union? Inwiefern schafft die DSGVO die Leitplanken in puncto Datenschutz für US-amerikanische Tech-Konzerne? Über diese und andere internationale Rechtsfragen diskutiert die Tech-Ökonomin und Unternehmensberaterin Dr. Annika B. Bergbauer als Gastgeberin des Podcasts „Datenaffaire“ mit dem Rechtsexperten Professor Kai von Lewinski.

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Le persone donano a Wikipedia per tanti motivi diversi. La Wikimedia Foundation, la fondazione senza scopo di lucro che gestisce Wikipedia, garantisce che ogni donazione ricevuta venga investita per essere di servizio a Wikipedia, ai progetti Wikimedia e alla nostra missione relativa alla conoscenza libera. 

‘Recently, several private and political cloud initiatives emerged in Europe. This paper demonstrates how the sociotechnical imaginaries of three European cloud projects reveal a performative coupling of innovation and political ideas of control, territoriality and sovereignty. I ascertain three elements of the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries (innovation, boundary making and material properties) guiding the empirical analysis.

Wired.com, 5 janvier 2023, avec la participation de Ksenia Ermoshina.
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This is it now, this is what life is all about now, looking at screens, I’ve just accepted it, my friend Jordi told me, while we each look at our monitors, comparing our screen time. He unabashedly told me his phone screen time is 4 hours a day, which is a lot, I think, but a quick google search shows it is just about average. And this statistic excludes computer screen time, which potentially fills the rest of our waking life. But really, it’s true, many of us spend our lives and build our skills and subsequently identities behind screens.

Le CRDP a le plaisir de vous inviter à suivre le Colloque international – Société, IA et normativités, organisé par l’Observatoire international sur les impacts sociétaux de l’intelligence artificielle et du numérique (OBVIA), auquel participent nos chercheur.e.s Georges Azzaria, Karine Gentelet, Pierre Trudel, Catherine Régis.

Le CRDP a le plaisir de vous informer du lancement du concours de bourses Elisabeth Corte qui prendra fin le 10 mars 2023.

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Mit dem ersten Nachweis von Quasiteilchen – sogenannten Exzitonen – in einem topologischen Isolator ist einem internationalen Wissenschaftsteam rund um das Würzburg-Dresdner Exzellenzcluster ct.qmat ein Durchbruch in der Quantenforschung gelungen. Diese Entdeckung schafft die Grundlage für eine neue Generation von lichtgesteuerten Computerchips und Quantentechnologien. Möglich wurde dies durch geschicktes Materialdesign aus Würzburg – dem Geburtsort topologischer Isolatoren. Die Forschungsergebnisse wurden in der Zeitschrift Nature Communications veröffentlicht.