From February 24 to 27, SMEX joined digital rights advocates, technologists, policymakers, and activists from around the world at RightsCon 2025 in Taipei. As one of the largest global events on human rights in the digital age, the event brought together voices from around the globe to explore urgent topics like AI ethics, content moderation, censorship, and the intersection of digital rights and sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
Christof Lammer (University of Klagenfurt) spoke with Suvi Rautio (podcast host, University of Helsinki) about his recent open access book, Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China (2024).
For many of us, the internet was never a utopia, but a space of possibility.
Building upon decades of collaboration among dedicated and trustworthy individuals, digital spaces have extended new avenues for us to connect and organize beyond borders and oppression.
As states break the sanctity of their constitutions to harm their residents, and as invasive technologies get smarter and more prevalent, we must sharpen our long-term foresight to effectively confront these existing threats.
“I at once grew closer to it and more skeptical of it.”–Mike Pepi
I’m trying to make sense of the complex systems that accompany my experience of reality–everyday & everywhere–and I mean two things in particular: internet and my (human) (sub- and conscious) mind.
Dans les deux précédents billets, nous avons successivement abordé la notion [1], puis l’histoire et la méthode [2] des humanités numériques. Nous allons présenter ici plusieurs projets, en cours ou achevés, dans l’optique d’illustrer la diversité des usages possibles en la matière.
Certains projets sont présentés en langue française, d’autres en anglais. Leurs domaines sont très variés : histoire, littérature, droit, géopolitique, épidémiologie, ou encore exégèse.
Nous vous invitons chaleureusement au colloque sur « Les défis contemporains de la réparation : perspectives nationales, comparées et internationales », organisé par la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les droits humains et la justice réparatrice internationale, en collaboration avec le Centre de justice pour les victimes d’actes criminels et le Centre de recherche en droit public.
Date : Mardi 13 mai 2025
Heure : 13h – 17h00
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN) is happy to announce the release of Open Data Editor (ODE) 1.4.0, the latest version of our new desktop application for data practitioners to detect errors in tables.
The post [Announcement] Open Data Editor 1.4.0 version release first appeared on Open Knowledge Blog.
El uso de inteligencia artificial (IA) generativa plantea múltiples interrogantes sobre su impacto en las campañas electorales y la democracia. Este fue el foco del seminario “Presidenciales 2025: Inteligencia Artificial, Transparencia y Democracia”, organizado por el Programa de Derecho, Ciencia y Tecnología UC, en conjunto con la Facultad de Comunicaciones UC, el Consejo para la Transparencia, y el Servel.
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Recurrent internet disruptions in Syria continue to interfere with residents’ education, work, communication, and even access to their salaries. In response, the Minister of Communications has pledged to build a more robust telecommunications infrastructure. However, this promise comes amid growing concerns about the country’s data sovereignty and the state’s increasing control over digital networks.
This brief explores the latest developments in Syria’s digital landscape.
When thousands of public sector workers in Syria tried to collect their salaries during Eid El-Fitr this April, many found themselves locked out of a glitchy app they were instructed to download just months earlie
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