Democracy without trust: what happens when the public sphere collapses?

Fabrizio Li Vigni, The Journal of North African Studies, 2025.
L’article Online Participatory Authoritarianism. The Case of Tunisia’s E-Istichara Platform under Kaïs Saïed (2022) est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

This project aims to analyse the historical, economic, political/institutional, cultural, and philosophical background behind the computerization process that China has developed since the 1980s, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.
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Appel à propositions ouvert jusqu'au 31 oct. 2025. Conférence organisée par le CIS, en collaboration avec eQualitie, Paris, 8-10 déc. 2025.
L’article SplinterCon: Paris est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Für seine herausragenden Verdienste im Bereich des Digitalrechts wurde bidt-Direktor Dirk Heckmann, Professor für „Recht und Sicherheit der Digitalisierung“ an der TU München, mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz ausgezeichnet. Die Auszeichnung überreichte Markus Blume, Bayerischer Staatsminister für Wissenschaft und Kunst, im Rahmen einer feierlichen Zeremonie im Münchner Gärtnerplatztheater.

Zum offiziellen „Quantenjahr 2025“ öffnet die Fakultät für Physik der Universität Würzburg am 14. November 2025 ihre Türen und lädt zur Langen Nacht der Quantenphysik ein. Ab 17 Uhr erwartet Gäste ein abwechslungsreiches Programm mit Vorträgen, Experimenten und Mitmachstationen. Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, die faszinierende Welt der Quantenphysik für alle Altersgruppen greifbar zu machen.

Freitag, 17. April 2026 (13.00-18.00) & Samstag, 18. April 2026 (09.00-13.00)
mit einer Keynote von Prof. Dr. Werner Delanoy (AAU)
und Prof. Dr. Astrid Mairitsch (PHK)

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Klagenfurt
Universitätsstraße 65-67, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
 
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O LAPIN, o IDEC e o IP.rec apresentaram ao Governo Federal suas contribuições à Consulta Pública sobre o Regime Especial de Tributação para Serviços de Data Centers (Redata).

O documento propõe diretrizes para que a digitalização avance em consonância com a justiça socioambiental, assegurando transparência, controle social e auditoria pública no uso de energia, água e outros recursos naturais.

Initiated by the Quantitative Economics Division we have instituted a bi-weekly exchange of thoughts and ideas between researchers from the Departments of Economics and Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. The kick-off meeting on November 12, 2025  is dedicated to acquiring a “common language” by working through the book „Deep Learning“ by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville. We look forward to deepening our knowledge on current topics together with professors, post-docs and PhD students from different fields. If you are interested in joining, please contact Martin Wagner (QED).

Digital payments have long been part of everyday life—whether we pay by card, cell phone, or PayPal. But every time we make a payment, we leave behind data tracks. In this opening episode of the season “Secure Money” we ask: Who actually sees this data? Why is payment data so much more sensitive than other data tracks? And how is it used, in particular by the current players in the payment market? Is a vague unease or indifference justified – because proper knowledge about what happens in the background is no given.

Dans le cadre de la Semaine de la recherche étudiante qui a lieu du 16 au 20 mars 2026, à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal, aura lieu le 1er concours de présentations des recherches des étudiant.es du CRDP.

On behalf of the Open Knowledge Foundation, I  welcome today’s announcement by the European Commission on the creation of the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC).  It is a hopeful moment for Europe, where the values of thousands of communities that have worked for years in a different way of doing and governing technology,...

As part of this year’s “Semester Warm-Up” event in the Foundation Hall of the University of Klagenfurt, the Spitzensport & Studium program, which has been running successfully since 2007, was ceremonially extended for another five years.

Appel à communication ouvert jusqu'au 27 oct. 2025 pour une journée d'étude qui aura lieu le 25 nov. 2025.
L’article IA et créativité dans le monde des jeux est apparu en premier sur Centre Internet et Société.

Content moderation combines human labour and algorithmic systems, exposing global inequalities in who controls what we see online.
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