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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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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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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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…
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…
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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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”?!…
ARTificial 2019 in Linz at its Makerspace Grand Garage© aimed to bring together practitioners, researchers, and artists from different fields. About 60 participants joined the 3-day learning journey starting with interfacing digital production technologies and art, inspired by Johannes Braumann…
