Reflections on “Learning to learn”
Filmmaker Sophie Huber-Lachner wrote a reflection on her documentary project “Lernen lernen”. Pros and cons are addressed. See the paper here. The film start is expected this year.
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 19)
Webinar on the pandemic with Peter Fleissner
Our member, Peter Fleissner, who worked on simulation models on the current endemic in European countries and runs currently a blog with daily updates of the situation in Austria, will hold a webinar on the pandemic. The webinar will be…
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Informatics in the time of COVID-19
Because of Corona crisis conditions, the Vienna Digital Humanism initiative postponed its planned workshop at the TU Wien to autumn this year. Instead, an online workshop with a different programme will be held on 14 May 2020, at 14:00 CEST,…
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Post Covid-19 societies
Shima Beigi, in charge of the Resilience for VUCA World 2020 Initiative at the Center Leo Apostel for Multidisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, invites to an online round table on what societies ought to learn from the experience of the…
An alternative COVID-19 exit strategy for Europe and beyond
Peter Fleissner‘s simulation model shows that Austria is on a good track to starve out the SARS-CoV-2, if the lifting of the countermeasures will not be too soon. According to his model, the development of the epidemic is approaching the…
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Starving out the virus – a new strategy for Austria?
Peter Fleissner, expert in social cybernetics, considers a new strategy for dealing with the virus in Austria. According to his simulation model – that so far has been fitting well the actual numbers of infected people (see here) –, in…
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Corona app privacy impact assessment published
Our partner, the German Platform of computer scientists for peace and social responsibility (FIfF), published an impact assessment of the Corona app for tracking the mobile phone users’ movement data. Shall in the name of health reasons a big assault…
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Christian Fuchs on Corona virus crisis
In 2020, the coronavirus crisis ruptured societies and their everyday life around the globe. This article is a contribution to critically theorising the changes societies have undergone in the light of the coronavirus crisis. It asks: How have everyday life…
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Study prize contest open in the field of computer science, peace and social responsibility
In commemoration of computer science pioneer, Professor Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum – he was involved in the founding of the German Forum of computer scientists for peace and social responsibility (FIfF) – the competition for the study prizes 2020 has been…
“AI as wonderland” #FIfFKon19 contributions published
The German Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) published number 1/2020 of their quarterly journal FIfF Kommunikation. The focus is on the yearly conference 2019 on Artificial Intelligence as Wonderland. See here. Videos of presentations and the…
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