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…
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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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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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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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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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…
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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Live webinar: A systemic perspective on building resilience during COVID-19 pandemics The COVID-19 pandemic is an urgent call for rethinking our collective social-ecological and socio-technical systems. In this free webinar, I speak about how the framework of Mindfulness Engineering can…
A call to action putting the COVID 19 pandemic into the context of sociogenic imbalances with nature, heralded by the Club of Rome. Read here! [Picture: The Club of Rome]
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Our member, social scientist Peter Fleissner, retired professor at the TU Wien, simulates the development of the COVID 19 endemic in Austria. He writes: Here you find the results of a simple simulation model of the COVID 19 epidemic in…
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