Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent awarded an SNSF Ambizione Grant

Two Awards at SACM 2025 for the Media Change and Innovation Division

Vortragsreihe: Wie Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz unsere Gesellschaft verändern

New publications on Transhumanist Anthropocene, Content Creators and Chilling Effects

Generative AI is Taking Over Everyday Life in Switzerland: From Experimentation to Regular Use

Daniela Jaramillo-Dent wins Best Seminar Award for outstanding teaching

New publications on techno-religion, human augmentation technologies, internet use in Switzerland

Kiran Kappeler successfully defended her dissertation

“Artificial Intelligence” in Switzerland 2024: Rapid Diffusion and Increasing Digital Inequality

The open data activist and Open Knowledge Foundation board member joins us to discuss the less-told part of CKAN's 20-year history: how a small open-source project became the default for government open data, and the product, sales and community work that made it happen
The post Irina Bolychevsky: ‘There was a point where CKAN went from relatively unknown to the default’ first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.

Katrin LingenhelOn Wednesday, 7 October 2026, John Maxa, Key Account Manager at go-e GmbH, was a guest speaker on the International Marketing course. At the Feldkirchen-based company, Maxa is responsible for market development and sales in Southern Europe (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal).

„Wenn in Mainfranken von Künstlicher Intelligenz die Rede ist, geht es selten um Roboter und fast immer um den Schreibtisch.“ So fasst Professorin Carolin Wienrich, Leiterin des Lehrstuhls für Informatik VI (Psychologie interaktiver Systeme) der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) das Bild zusammen, das bei einer gemeinsam mit der IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt durchgeführten Umfrage unter 53 Unternehmen herausgekommen ist.

Portulans Institute Senior Fellow Shylesh Muralidharan was featured in The Hindu’s October 2, 2026 article, “Karnataka’s drive to green data centres,” by Shilpa Elizabeth. The article examines Karnataka’s Sustainable Data Centre Policy 2026–2031, which aims to expand the state’s data centre capacity while encouraging renewable energy use and water efficiency.

Call for Applications: Research and Project Lead: AI, Skills and the Future of Work
Organization: Portulans Institute
Appointment: Full-time, fixed-term, November 1, 2026–March 15, 2027
Location: Remote; applications welcome worldwide. Regular availability for collaboration across US Eastern and European working hours is required. Working from Portulans Institute’s Washington, DC office is optional for locally based candidates.
Priority application deadline: October 18, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the Cleveringa Lecture, entitledBetween Power and Possibility: The Case for Hope in International Law.

 
Date: November 2, 2026
Time (Montreal): 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Location: Salon François-Chevrette and Zoom
Speaker: Jason Rudall

Nous somme heureux de vous inviter à la conférence Cleveringa, intitulée « Entre le pouvoir et la possibilité : plaidoyer pour l’espoir en droit international ».

This research was conducted as part of the Phoenix project. It forms a part of a broader SMEX-led initiative to develop a Regional Digital Rights Strategy that strengthens the capacity of civil society across MENA to understand, respond to, and coordinate against digital authoritarianism.