Mario Bunge 1919 – 2020
Mario Augusto Bunge passed away. He died on 24 February 2020 at an age of 100 years old. He was born in Buenos Aires, studied physics at the National University of La Plata, became Professor for Theoretical Physics in La…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 21)
Future of society and humanism
On 11 February 2020, the iASK (Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg) Research Group Human 2.0 invited to its second workshop in Köszeg, Hungary. Guest and keynote speaker was Wolfgang Hofkirchner. He was invited to give a talk on the concept…
Towards a world beyond neoliberalism: The second manifesto of convivialism
After the Convivialist Manifesto of the year 2013, a second version is published now. Building upon the first manifesto, an initiative of mostly French intellectuals, the second manifesto was drafted by Alain Caillé, professor emeritus of sociology, and after international…
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Online information governance – more expression, less freedom?
Under this motto the Fourth European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS) will take place 7-8 May 2020 in Vienna. It is organised by the Media Governance and Industries Research Lab & Jean Monnet Centre of…
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“Industry 4.0”? – “Work 4.0”?
On 13 December 2019, the Emergent Systems Group organised as Arbeitskreis of the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS) – in co-operation with the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (HTW – University of Applied Sciences) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für…
Europe: crisis, social media and governance from below
This work concentrates on the emergence of ‘governance from below’ (civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations, self-organised networks, social movements) in Europe during the crisis. In particular, it investigates how social movements utilise the Internet in order to represent themselves as…
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A unified theory as backbone for the study of information
A science of information as a single integrated transdiscipline cannot be reduced to a unified, or general, theory of information. But it can take advantage of such a theory that can form its backbone. Science is more than theory that…
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ICTs and sustainability
On 3 December 2019, 10:00 to 12:00, GSIS The Institute welcomed Gerhard Banse, Philosopher of Technology, Past President of the Leibniz Society of Scholars, Berlin, for a talk in German on ICT and Sustainable Development – (not) a “Harmony a priori”?!…
Co-operation agreement between Madrid Open University and GSIS
Our Institute signed an academic, scientific and cultural agreement with the Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA Madrid Open University). The agreement foresees annual plans of co-operation in areas in which the parties have expressed interest. Such plans cover possibilities…
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Joint project on “Information Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability”
The Faculty of Informatics and Statistics of the University of Economics in Prague (FIS) and The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society (GSIS) signed a Memorandum on a joint project on Information Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability. This project shall…
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