Under this title, the Platform Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) – a friend of the GSIS Institute – holds its yearly conference in hybrid form. The FIfF regional group Munich is host. The date is: 12–14 November,…
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As announced, the plans are still to have that conference in a face-to-face format at the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) from 18 to 20 November 2021. Click here for the programme. More information here.…
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This manifesto (launched by an online event) is now available in several languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German. You can sign here. See the full list of the signatories here (at the end of the english version). Today, 880 signatories are…
Gerhard Chroust is Professor emeritus at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He belongs to the first people in Austria that have been educated in informatics (as different from computer science in the wake of the influential Austrian pioneer Heinz Zemanek).…
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This is an invitation to join lectures of the IPT. The IPT team writes: This year’s IPT Online Lecture Series is part of the ASPR’s campaign on “Homeland Earth – Terre Patrie”, where we engage with the polcy-crises humanity encounters in…
This online event launches “The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto”. The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation…
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The 37th Summer Academy of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution will be held online from 1 to 4 September. It is devoted to be part of the international “Homeland Earth” campaign for planetary awareness. The language…
The deadline for some abstract submissions to conferences, workshops or other events at the IS4SI Summit 12-19 September 2021 has been extended to 15 June 2021. This holds for our workshop on Digital Humanism – How to shape digitalisation in…
The biannual Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information will, according to the pandemic situation, take place online from 12 to 19 September 2021. It is made up of several conferences and particular workshops and symposia under…
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie and Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie will hold a common congress at the WU Vienna on Post Corona Society, 23-25 August 2021 (online/hybrid). Sebastian Sevignani and Martin Seeliger will organise an ad-hoc group on the digital, structural…
