Blockchain and the commons
Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos has published a book:
Wolfgang Hofkirchner archives (page 5)
Degrowth as social-ecological transformation
A book on degrowth has been published. The book is a project of Degrowth Vienna as a follow up to the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020: Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation. It covers 19 chapters by over 50 authors on more than 400 pages. Degrowth…
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War in Ukraine: negotiate now!
Edgar Morin published a new book with a French publisher on 6 January 2023. It is about WW I and WW II, about wars after Nuremberg and, of course, about the war in Ukraine that has become a proxy war…
Combat drones hearing
The IPPNW invites to an online hearing on combat drones. The focus will be on recent developments in Africa, Ukraine and Turkey. The event will take place on 25 January 2023, 19:00 CET. You can register here. Language mostly German.…
The quest for a new paradigm in studies of information
The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
IDIMT 2023
Petr Doucek and Antonin Pavlicek from the Prague University of Economics and Business (VSE, Czech Republic) and Michael Sonntag from the J. Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria) write: in this pre-Christmas time, we bring you good news – we would…
Logic and society lectures
We organise an online event for the World Logic Day 2023, called for by UNESCO. You are invited to take part as indicated below. Presentations will be uploaded after the event. –––––––––– Updates: Here is the link to the ZOOM…
Chinese papers voicing ethical problems with Artificial Intelligence and robots
Our Member, Liang Wang, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, deals with ethics concerning robots and Artificial Intelligence. Recently he published a paper in a Chinese journal in which he argues in favour of virtue ethics over…
“Humanity has a choice: cooperate or perish.”
This truth was spoken out by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his opening day remarks at COP 27 in Egypt. The photo above, taken at the closing plenary sessionon 20 November 2022, gives an impression of where the outcome of…
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