On 29 September 2025 the Future Foundation was presented to the public (https://gsis.at/2025/09/03/10-regeln-fur-die-digitale-welt/). Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Board Member of the Future Foundation, announces a follow-up series of talks: From time to time we will offer a virtual lunch-time talk on an…
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Rainer Rehak from Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung informs about a call for papers for a Special Issue of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society next year. Submission deadline 15 November 2025: In light of the recent…
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Christian Fuchs invites to the following webinar: Webinar on Democracy in the Digital Age: Foundations of Digital Democracy AnalysisOrganised by the Horizon Europe Project INNOVADETuesday, October 21, 15:00 CET In this webinar, the EU research project INNOVADE: INNOVAtive DEmocracy through…
Armin Grunwald, Leiter des Instituts für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS) am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), lädt im Namen des Vorstands der neu gegründeten Future Foundation zur Vorstellung dieser Initiative ein. Er schreibt in der Mailingliste des Netzwerks TA (NTA):…
Christian Fuchs published a new book, wrapping up the topics of war, capitalism, digitalisation, globalisation, political economy, peace and socialism. This book is open access. This is an excellent, wide-ranging account of thinking about war in the context of new…
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On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
The GSIS Institute will host the annual conference of the German Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF) from 21 to 23 November 2025 at “Alte Mensa”, Kulturzentrum 4lthangrund für Alle, Vienna, where GSIS held the “Utopia(s) Reloaded” talks…
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Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies A hybrid symposium organised by Raffaela Giovagnoli, Irena Mostowicz and Tomáš Sigmund in the framework of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) biennial Summit 2025. It will take place in 4lthangrund, “Alte…
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Einladung zu einer Tagung der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (LS) Wissenschaft zwischen Krieg und Frieden –Verantwortung für eine menschenwürdige Technik- und Gesellschaftsentwicklunganlässlich des 90. Geburtstags von Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski Termin: 14. März 2025 von 9.30 bis 18 UhrOrt: Hochschule für…
On 18 December 2024 Annette Grathoff, Tomáš Sigmund and Liang Wang organised together with Lianfu Yan, Dean of the School of Marxism at the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, a symposium on that topic. Annette and Tomáš were connected online, Liang…
