The growing influence of artificial intelligence (AI) across society is creating opportunities and new responsibilities for lawmakers.
Recognising the need for legislators to better understand this rapidly evolving technology, Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Policy Innovation Lab recently presented AI training to more than 200 Members of Parliament (MPs), helping to strengthen Parliament’s capacity to oversee and engage with AI-related developments.

Continuing our Get to Know the Team series, we are delighted to introduce Ms Thando Ndita, our Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Manager.
Thando is a human rights researcher affiliated with a Hague-based organisation, where her work focuses on bringing attention to human rights issues that often do not make it into mainstream media or policy conversations. Her research has explored areas such as caste-based discrimination, democratic governance, political repression, and access to justice, all grounded in a strong commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices.

We were delighted to welcome visiting colleagues Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge), Andreas Hauptmann (University of Oulu), and Ozan Öktem (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) to our institute for two weeks during the summer semester of 2026.
During their visit, they worked on a book project on data-driven methods for inverse problems. We were pleased to host them and look forward to seeing the results of their collaboration in this exciting and rapidly evolving field.

In collaboration with researchers from IViR, DigiCon will launch a new multidisciplinary DigiBook on the regulation of deepfakes, with a particular focus on the EU.
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ÖH KlagenfurtThe Info Days of the Austrian Students’ Union (ÖH) at the University of Klagenfurt/Celovec, the lobby group in university politics for all students at our university, will support you on 15 & 16 July and 2 & 3 September 2026 before the start of the semester with advice on all aspects of studying.

Studierende lassen Experi­ment mit Höhen­forschungs­ballon steigen - Preis für Informatikerin Borrmann - JMU für Gleich­stellung ausgezeichnet - Programm für ausländische Gäste - Liturgie der Zukunft

The 12th International  Conference “Inverse Problems: Modeling and Simulation” (IPMS 2026) is one of the main conferences of the field and takes place every other year.
For more information, see: https://www.ipms-conference.org/ipms2026/ 

Die Frauenfußball-Akademie (FFA) der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) mit ihrem Nachwuchsförderzentrum für Juniorinnen ist europaweit die einzige Forschungsakademie, die sich mit der optimalen Talententwicklung im Frauenfußball befasst. Gegründet im Jahr 2014 hat die Akademie bundesweit zahlreiche Studien durchgeführt und bei über 1.000 Nachwuchsspielerinnen innovative Ausbildungskonzepte entwickelt und in der Praxis erprobt. Ihre Mitglieder publizieren regelmäßig in hochrangigen wissenschaftlichen Fachzeitschriften.

Le lundi 8 juin 2026, à 13 h, Olouwafêmi Rodrigue Oloudé, étudiant du CRDP et responsable des communications du Centre, fera sa soutenance de thèse de doctorat en droit intitulée : La responsabilité de protéger des Nations Unies. De l’intervention militaire à la réparation des crimes de masse.
Le jury sera composé de :

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When does the use of AI add value, and when does it come at the expense of something valuable? In conversation with Ot van Daalen, a lecturer in Information Law and attorney, the TLC-FdR discusses the value of AI. A little sneak peek: experiment! Sometimes with success, sometimes with the conclusion that it isn’t the right path after all.
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Unisport Austria Beach Volleyball Championships 2026: Title deciders in glorious weather and a home victory in Klagenfurt!
From 3 to 4 June 2026, the beach volleyball courts at the University Sports Institute (USI) in Klagenfurt became the centre of academic beach volleyball. After a rather mediocre start in terms of weather on the first day of the tournament, the athletes were rewarded with glorious sunshine and absolutely perfect weather on the final Thursday. The new championship titles were awarded on the sand in front of a fantastic crowd.

IViR is pleased to introduce our new visiting researcher Daniel Hauck. Daniel is a PhD candidate in law at the University of Hagen. Currently, Daniel is conducting research on content moderation and how online platforms exercise power and impose censorship. He is undertaking a three-month visiting period at IViR.
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South Africa needs more investment to drive economic growth, create jobs and improve competitiveness. Yet investment decisions are often influenced by policy, regulatory and administrative barriers that are not always visible through formal reporting channels. Businesses frequently know exactly where these obstacles lie, but that information does not always reach policymakers in a structured and actionable form.

Visiting researcher | January 2025 - June 2026
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Together with AGESIC, we are piloting a traceable AI system with Uruguay’s open data catalogue – so that citizens can receive verifiable answers from national data
The post New Uruguay/OKFN Partnership: Scaling reliable AI for open data across Latin America first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

By Vidya Subramanian Since its inception, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made massive inroads into our everyday lives. Considered by many as one of the most significant inventions after steam engines, industrialization and the Internet, AI has permeated into almost every aspect of modern day life. What was essentially considered as a prominent […]

fawzy/Adobestock (KI generated)Whether a French luxury brand displays the same handbags in the display windows of its stores around the world, or whether global fast-food chains adapt their product ranges to country-specific preferences and conditions, is a challenging management decision for companies that typically operate a large number of branches. A research team of business scholars has now investigated how these companies can find effective solutions when navigating the tension between flexibility and standardization.