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Computers, Privacy & Data Protection
CPDP is a non-profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. The platform was joined in the following years by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and the Fraunhofer Institut für System und Innovationsforschung and has now grown into a platform carried by 20 ...
Information Technology & Innovation foundation ITIF
As technological innovation transforms the global economy and society, policymakers often lack the specialized knowledge and expert perspective necessary to evaluate and respond to fast-moving issues and circumstances. What should they do to capitalize on new opportunities, overcome challenges, and avoid potential pitfalls? The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) exists to ...
Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society
With the Policy Lab Digital, Work & Society, the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs established a new, interdisciplinary and agile organisational unit that combines the functions and working practices of a traditional think tank and those of a modern future lab. The Policy Lab began its journey in October, 2018. The aim is to identify new areas of activity that, for the Federal ...
Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
With its exhibitions and events, the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum seeks to keep people informed and help them find their place in our modern information society. The starting point is a portrayal of the cultural history of information technology in a journey through time covering five thousand years, from the origins of arithmetic and writing to the 21st century. The experiences provided by the ...
Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) was founded in 2011 to research the development of the internet from a societal perspective and better understand the digitalisation of all spheres of life. As the first institute in Germany with a focus on internet and society, HIIG has established an understanding that centres on the deep interconnectedness of digital ...
Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
The Berkman Klein Center's mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode ...
IE University - The Center for the Governance of Change (CGC)
The Center for the Governance of Change (CGC) is an applied-research, educational institution based at IE University that studies the political, economic, and societal implications of the current technological revolution and advances solutions to overcome its unwanted effects. The CGC produces pioneering impact-oriented research that cuts across disciplines and methodologies to unveil the ...
The Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute was founded as a full department of the University of Oxford in 2001. The idea for an Oxford research centre focusing on the societal opportunities and challenges posed by rapidly-developing Internet technologies was first posed by Dr Andrew Graham, then Master-Elect of Balliol College, and Derek Wyatt, then MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, supported by then Oxford ...
Informatics Europe
Informatics Europe represents the academic and research community in Informatics in Europe and neighbouring countries. It brings together university departments and research laboratories, creating a strong common voice to promote, shape and stimulate quality research, education, and knowledge transfer in Informatics in Europe. Informatics Europe is a non-profit membership association based in ...
Research for the Networked Society
The Weizenbaum Institute investigates the current changes in all aspects of society occurring in response to digitalisation. Our goals are to develop a comprehensive understanding of these changes based on rigorous academic analysis and to offer informed strategies to address them at a political and economic level. The Institute’s core objective is to conduct outstanding, interdisciplinary, and ...
Hochschule RheinMain - IMPACT RheinMain
With its application IMPACT RheinMain, the Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences has been selected for funding in the first round of the federal-state initiative "Innovative Hochschule". Among the recipients are 35 universities of applied sciences, a college of art and music, and twelve universities and colleges of education. The "Innovative University" federal-state initiative - a kind of ...
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
DESY is one of the world’s leading accelerator centres. Researchers use the large-scale facilities at DESY to explore the microcosm in all its variety – from the interactions of tiny elementary particles and the behaviour of new types of nanomaterials to biomolecular processes that are essential to life. The accelerators and detectors that DESY develops and builds are unique research tools. ...
New York University - AI Now Institute
Artificial Intelligence systems are being applied to many arenas of human life – across major sectors such as education, health care, criminal justice, housing, and employment – influencing significant decisions that impact individuals, populations, and national agendas. But the vast majority of AI systems and related technologies are being put in place with minimal oversight, few ...
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - Institute Computer Graphics Research
Fraunhofer IGD is the international leading research institution for applied visual computing — image- and model-based information technology that combines computer graphics and computer vision. In simple terms, it is the ability to turn information into images and to extract information from images. All technological solutions by Fraunhofer IGD and its partners are based on visual ...
AlgorithmWatch gGmbH
Mission Statement The more technology develops, the more complex it becomes. AlgorithmWatch believes that complexity must not mean incomprehensibility. AlgorithmWatch is a non-profit research and advocacy organisation to evaluate and shed light on algorithmic decision making processes that have a social relevance, meaning they are used either to predict or prescribe human action or to make ...
Code Girls
Schon mal versucht eine Fremdsprache zu lernen? Und von der Fülle an Vokabeln, Grammatik und Regeln total erschlagen gewesen? Genau so geht es euch vielleicht, wenn ihr euch das erste Mal mit einer Programmiersprache beschäftigt. Genau wie eine Fremdsprache lernt man HTML, Ruby on Rails oder JavaScript deswegen am besten in der Gruppe. Und am allerliebsten mit uns! Erst mal gilt es, die Basics ...
Lise-Meitner-Gesellschaft e.V.
Die Lise-Meitner-Gesellschaft ist ein eingetragener Verein, dessen Ziel Chancengleichheit und die Gleichstellung von Frauen* im MINT Bereich inner- und außerhalb der akademischen Laufbahn ist. Noch immer sind Frauen* im MINT Bereich unterrepräsentiert und erfahren oft kaum sichtbar und ungewollt Benachteiligung und Diskriminierung aufgrund unbewusster Voreingenommenheiten. Wir sind eine von ...
Fachgruppe Frauen in der Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) - IT-Frauen im Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck
Nach dem Vorbild anderer Regionen, wie z.B. München, wollen wir im Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck ein regelmäßiges Treffen von IT-Frauen organisieren. Im Vordergrund steht der fachliche und berufsbezogene Austausch: in informellen Gesprächen, wie auch bei organisierten Themenabenden mit eingeladenen Vortragenden oder moderierter Diskussion. Dazu gehört auch die Vernetzung, regional wie auch ...
YAPILI
YAPILI delivers health@hand – offering new opportunities for many Africans to connect to local and western health professionals in an efficient and confidential way. In the societies, where professional health advice is hard & expensive to get, YAPILI offers affordable, anonymous and secure channel to seek medical care in case of pregnancy & family planning, diabetes & hypertension, HIV & sexual ...
Gesellschaft für Informatik e. V. und Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e. V. - Turing-Bus
Der Turing-Bus ist ein mobiles Bildungsangebot der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland und der Gesellschaft für Informatik im Wissenschaftsjahr 2018 - Arbeitswelten der Zukunft für Schulen, Jugendclubs und lokale Institutionen. Der Bus möchte die Rolle von Digitalisierung und Technologie für Beruf und Gesellschaft mit Workshops, Vorträgen und Hands-on-Sessions ergründen, diskutieren und ...