Other News from Participating Centers

KKA group of early-career researchers in the Karl Popper Kolleg “FruitScope: A DroneScope for Smart Agriculture” is working on ways to use drone swarms in agriculture and forestry. Shivi Vats is part of this group. His research focuses on forest inventories using drone swarms, with particular emphasis on communication between the drones: How do they communicate in dense forests where no communications infrastructure is available? How do they transmit the information they collect? And how can the recorded data be compressed as effectively as possible?

An Unknown Company Is Advertising Starlink in Lebanon. But the Service Hasn’t Launched Yet.

Aug 17, 2026 SMEX

In Lebanon, Starlink’s arrival has been promised, postponed, and promised again. The Ministry of Telecommunications has yet to offer a clear roadmap for when, or how, the satellite internet service will actually launch.
Then, in the first week of June 2026, an ad appeared offering Lebanese customers something that sounded a lot more concrete: pre-orders for Starlink subscriptions through a local internet provider called Lebanon Net.

Part 4: From Delhi to Geneva and beyond: civil society voices on AI

Aug 17, 2026 Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi

The UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance: What It Is and What It Could Be By Urvashi Aneja and Aarushi Gupta, Digital Futures Lab The inaugural session of the UN’s Global Dialogue on AI Governance, held over two days in Geneva in July 2026, marked an important attempt to bring together a diverse set of […]

Part 3: From Delhi to Geneva and beyond: civil society voices on AI

Aug 17, 2026 Centre for Communication Governance, National Law University Delhi

Can the majority world keep up in the AI race? By Santosh Sidgel, co-founder and executive director of Digital Rights Nepal Last month, I had the opportunity to participate in the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance (UNGDAI) held in Geneva, Switzerland. I am Co-founder and Executive Director of Digital Rights Nepal (DRN), […]

Nature Index: JMU unter Deutschlands forschungsstärksten Universitäten

Aug 17, 2026 Würzburg Centre for Social and Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence (SOCAI)

Der Nature Index gehört zu den international bekanntesten Forschungsrankings. Er bewertet wissenschaftliche Institutionen anhand ihrer Veröffentlichungen in ausgewählten renommierten Fachzeitschriften aus den Gesundheits- und Naturwissenschaften und ordnet diese sieben Fachbereichen zu. Seit diesem Jahr berücksichtigt das Ranking erstmals auch Publikationen aus den angewandten Wissenschaften und den Sozialwissenschaften.

Schmetterlinge auf dem Weg nach oben

Aug 17, 2026 Würzburg Centre for Social and Legal Implications of Artificial Intelligence (SOCAI)

Der Klimawandel stellt Tiere und Pflanzen vor eine grundlegende Herausforderung: Was tun, wenn es am angestammten Lebensort zunehmend wärmer wird? Sie können sich an die veränderten Bedingungen anpassen – oder in Regionen ausweichen, die ihnen weiterhin ein geeignetes Klima bieten.