This article was written by Tara Aziz and published on Global Voices on September 6, 2023.

Die Juristische Fakultät der Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg bietet zum Wintersemester 2023/24 einen weiteren rechtswissenschaftlichen Studiengang an, den Bachelor im europäischen Recht. Damit erfüllt sie den Wunsch der Studierenden nach einem berufsqualifizierenden Abschluss bereits vor der anspruchsvollen ersten juristischen Prüfung. Das bietet eine gewisse Sicherheit, die ein wenig Druck aus der manchmal belastenden Vorbereitung auf die erste juristische Prüfung nimmt.

UNITED KINGDOM, 19 SEPTEMBER 2023 — The Wikimedia Foundation — the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects — is calling on the UK government and independent regulator to ensure the implementation of the Online Safety Bill does not harm Wikipedia, and other projects that the public relies on to create and access free, reliable knowledge.

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence « Agnotologie et production de l’ignorance en droit: le cas du droit international de l’environnement », animée par le professeur Olivier Barsalou.

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Le professeur Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, chercheur au CRDP, a été cité dans La Presse du 10 septembre, dans un article de Marie-Eve Fournier intitulé Le yéti, Memphré et l’obsolescence programmée.

Interview with Olayinka David-West, Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems at the Lagos Business School.
 
How has the innovation performance of Nigeria and the West Africa region fared in recent years? 

Les journées du CIS 2023 se sont tenues les 4 et 5 octobre à Paris et en visioconférence.
L’article 4/5.10.2023 Journées annuelles du CIS est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Over the last few years, artificial intelligence (AI) tools have become increasingly prevalent and have been catching the attention of policymakers, governments, the private sector, and international organizations. Perhaps one of the most popular technologies released recently was the third version of ChatGPT (GPT-3), a chatbot developed by OpenAI that has significantly contributed to advances in natural language processing and generation.

On 11 August 2023, the Indian Parliament enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“2023 Act”). The 2023 Act has retained the general framework of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (“2022 Bill”). However, there are some notable and crucial changes between the 2023 Act and the 2022 Bill. Last year, we prepared […]

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Last month, I was appointed an Honorary International Professor at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), one of Mexico's older universities.  As part of the investiture ceremony, I presented a formal talk on the need for interdisciplinarity in cybersecurity thinking and some ideas on fostering the 'hacker mindset' in the modern era, which i am reposting here to help further our ongoing discussions about cybersecurity at CIS and beyond.

On the occasion of International Day for Democracy, the International Observatory on Information and Democracy (OID) has unveiled its newly appointed Steering Committee, comprised of 19 distinguished leaders from various domains, including policy, academia, and research. Our Director, Professor Pier Luigi Parcu, has been appointed to this dynamic group of experts who represent diverse geographies and disciplines, encompassing fields as wide-ranging as political science, ethics, journalism, engineering, anthropology, economics and data science. 

On September 4th, Open Knowledge Foundation, together with Open Knowledge Estonia and Open Knowledge Finland, held a parallel event to the Global Open Government Partnership Summit in Tallinn to talk about the tech we want (and need) to open governments.

On August 21, the Yemeni cabinet of the internationally recognized government signed a clandestine investment agreement in the telecom sector with an Emirati company. No specific details about the investment were revealed to the public; even the name of the company in question was never mentioned. 

Holger Braunschweig kann sich noch sehr gut an den ersten wissenschaftlichen Forschungsvortrag erinnern, den er jemals hörte. Das war im Jahr 1984, in seinem ersten Semester als Chemiestudent an der RWTH Aachen. Der Redner war ein Chemiker aus den USA und Experte für das Element Bor, Frederick Hawthorne (1928-2021).