Because of Corona crisis conditions, the Vienna Digital Humanism initiative postponed its planned workshop at the TU Wien to autumn this year. Instead, an online workshop with a different programme will be held on 14 May 2020, at 14:00 CEST,…
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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…
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 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…
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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Evo Busseniers whom we wanted to welcome in Vienna for giving a talk on “How to stop the emergence of hierarchy?” had to change his plans and provided an online workshop on 27 March 2020 at 20:00. Here are slides…
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This is lifeWhat a fucked up thing we doWhat a nightmare come trueOr a playground if we chooseAnd I choose I Choose, The Offspring This is the motto of a dissertation thesis written by Evo Busseniers for the Doctor of…
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…
We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the 28th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks – IDIMT 2020, which will take place on September 4th – 6th, 2020 in Kutná Hora (a Czech UNESCO city). The conference is organized by the Prague University of…
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