Europe’s Digital Identity Wallet: The Promise, the Problems, and the Questions We’re Not Asking

By Sharmin Chougule

05 February 2026

The EUDI Wallet is coming to Europe by 2026. But while a universal digital identity sounds laudable, the tight schedule and complex architecture suggest a deeper tension. We are at a critical juncture: Is this a foundation for trust, or the quiet assembly of a surveillance apparatus?

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Wie genau unkonventionelle Supraleitung entsteht, zählt zu den zentralen Fragen der modernen Festkörperphysik. Eine neue Studie, die in der Fachzeitschrift Nature erschienen ist, liefert hierzu entscheidende Hinweise.
Ein internationales Forschungsteam konnte erstmals eine direkte mikroskopische Verbindung zwischen einem stark korrelierten Normalzustand und der Supraleitung in sogenannten Moiré-Materialien nachweisen. Langfristig können diese Erkenntnisse dazu beitragen, gezielt neue Quantenmaterialien und Supraleiter für künftige Quantentechnologien zu entwickeln.

GENEVA / BARCELONA — As artificial intelligence and digital transformation reshape the global public sector, academic institutions are facing a critical bottleneck: a lack of specialized curricula to train the next generation of public leaders.

“Our research shows that many public policy programs in the US and Europe are failing to prepare their students for a career in a modern, digital-era public sector,” says Pontus Westerberg, Executive Director of Teaching Public Service in the Digital Age.

Drawing on two decades of experience in building and supporting open digital infrastructure, we provide observations and recommendations to advance the EU’s strategic approach to open source, emphasizing its role in enhancing technological sovereignty, security, and competitiveness.
The post Our Network Contribution to Shape the European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Date : Mercredi 11 mars 2026
Heure : De 11 h 30 à 13 h
Type : Conférences et séminaires
Lieu : Salle multifonctionnelle (A9-162), Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté de droit,
Campus principal et visioconférence Teams

 
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O Smart Sampa vem sendo apresentado como uma solução tecnológica para tornar São Paulo mais segura. Mas o que os dados realmente mostram?

A nota técnica “Smart Sampa: Transparência para quem? Transparência de quê?”, elaborada pelo LAPIN, pelo Instituto de Referência Negra Peregum e pela Rede Liberdade, analisa o programa a partir de informações oficiais e de dados obtidos via Lei de Acesso à Informação (LAI).

Photocreo Bednarek/AdobestockHow many delivery vehicles does a company really need, and which vehicle configurations make sense throughout the year? This question poses major challenges for corporate logistics departments. Christian Truden (University of Klagenfurt) and Mike Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago) have now developed a new data-driven approach that shows how vehicle fleets can be planned efficiently even under strongly fluctuating demand and pronounced seasonality.

As of January 2026, Heiko Breitsohl serves as Associate Editor at the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
This internationally renowned journal publishes empirical studies and theoretical work from all areas of organizational research. The focus is on publishing scientific studies on organizational behavior—both at the individual level and at the group and organizational levels.
 
More information on the journal: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10991379

On Day 2 of the 2026 DMRC Summer School, delegates joined workshops on data donation, online safety, socio-technical grounded theory, and intersectional approaches to digital media research.
DMRC Chief Investigators also delivered a back-to-back-to-back seminar with the broad theme of re-thinking media for the platform age.
A major highlight of the day was the research translation roundtable discussion that explored opportunities at institutions, common pitfalls to avoid, and encouraged participants to share their own research translation experiences.

OpenForum Europe (OFE), the Open Source Initiative (OSI), and the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) today announced the official launch of Open Technology Research (OTR) — a strategic partnership designed to strengthen the global open technology research community and advance evidence-based policymaking around open technologies. Open technologies — including software, data, and standards — underpin today’s...

The DMRC’s 2026 Summer School kicked off today at QUT Kelvin Grove campus featuring inspiring and thought-provoking training by world leading researchers.
With over 75 delegates in attendance, today’s sessions explored a range of topics including analyzing large video collections using GenAI, discovering your teaching philosophy, instructions for systematic literature reviews, unpacking social biases in CSS, analyzing sound and music in content, and multimodal research using the image machine.

Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards (OTKJA) are now open. 

Presented by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, the Open the Knowledge Awards recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.

Der Wissenschaftsrat berät die Regierungen des Bundes und der Länder in allen Fragen zur Entwicklung der Wissenschaft, der Forschung und der Hochschulen. Er verfolgt das Ziel, in Deutschland ein leistungsstarkes Wissenschaftssystem zu ermöglichen, das vielfältig miteinander vernetzt ist und in die Gesellschaft hineinwirkt.
Zum 1. Februar 2026 hat Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier vier neue Mitglieder in den Wissenschaftsrat berufen. Darunter ist auch Jura-Professorin Eva-Maria Kieininger von der Universität Würzburg.
Leiterin eines Lehrstuhls an der Jura-Fakultät

Interview with Guilherme Flynn Paciornik.
The introduction of Digital Tribulations, a series of intellectual interviews on the developments of digital sovereignty in latin america, can be read here. 
Image by Carlotta Artioli, Instagram @charl_art.

In his new book, Forty-Four Esolangs (MIT Press), Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs—or esoteric programming languages—as pure idea art. The languages in this volume ask programmers to write code in the form of prayer to the Greek gods, or as a pattern of empty folders, or to type code in tandem with another programmer, each with one hand on the keyboard, their rhythm and synchrony signifying computer action.

Israel’s war on Lebanon was not merely a military confrontation broadcast on screens. At its core, it was a war of narratives, produced moment by moment on social media, outside the monopoly of traditional media and beyond closed partisan frameworks. In this space, women did not appear only as victims or humanitarian symbols, but as political actors actively producing the narrative itself.

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