April 2018 - netsociety - server-nexa.polito.it

Last CFP: Social Informatics 2018

by Oleg Nagornyy

Dear all, This is the last call for the 10th Social Informatics conference. This year it will be held at Higher School of Economics, St.Petersburg, on September 25-28, 2018, and will be organized by the Laboratory for Internet Studies. We invite social and computer scientists to present original research work on studying the interplay between socially-centric platforms and social phenomena. As usual, conference proceedings will be published in Lecture Notes for Computer Science Springer series. What is NEW is that up to ten best papers will be published in the Journal of Web Science, either in addition to proceedings or instead of them. We are also featuring two great workshops on multiplex social networks and on practical topic modeling. Don’t miss the deadline: May 9, 23:59:59 (Hawaii Time) Contact: socinfo2018(a)gmail.com. Full details at socinfo2018.hse.ru. *** Please forward to anyone who might be interested *** Best regards, Oleg Nagornyy Higher School of Economics Laboratory for Internet Studies

April 24, 2018

Job opening Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT)

by G. van den Maagdenberg

Dear members of the Network of Centers, There is a position available for an Assistant Professorship in Ethics, Law and Policy of new Data Technologies at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT). The vacancy can be found on the link below: https://bit.ly/2Ka6ZCC With kind regards, [cid:image002.png@01D3DAFE.15EDF120]Ghislaine van den Maagdenberg Tilburg University TILT- Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society Secretary P.O.Box 90153 5000 LE TILBURG Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 08.30-17:00 hrs. Phone: + (31) 13 466 8199 Email : G.vdnMaagdenberg(a)uvt.nl<mailto:G.vdnMaagdenberg@uvt.nl> Please check our webpage: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/t… and Twitter https://twitter.com/TilburgU_TILT for the latest news.

April 23, 2018

Re: [netsociety] Global Symposium on AI & Inclusion Outputs Package

by Alex Gakuru

Dear Celina, all: Today Nairobi Women in Machine Learning organised IndabaX Kenya on AI and Inclusion these resources were very useful. Thank you. A link for the interested: https://mobile.twitter.com/_tabbz/status/982533914983124992?ref_src=twcamp%… Heaps of thanks Kathleen Siminyu for keeping the AI flame burning in Africa. Best wishes from Nairobi, Alex On Sun, Feb 25, 2018, 4:58 AM Celina Beatriz <celina(a)itsrio.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > We hope this email finds you all well. We’re writing to share with you an > interactive web page constructed to highlight our AI & inclusion work -- a > centerpiece of which is the Global Symposium on AI & Inclusion. > > https://aiandinclusion.org/ > > We’ve created this output as a means to showcase the important research, > findings, and ideas both that went into the symposium and that came out of > it and will continue to influence the AI and inclusion work of the NoC and > the Ethics & Governance of AI initiative ongoing at the Berkman Klein > Center in partnership with the MIT Media Lab. > > We invite you to peruse the web page, and in particular the Global > Symposium on AI & Inclusion section, for a comprehensive look at how the > symposium -- which, as you know, convened 170 participants from over 40 > countries in Rio to discuss the most significant opportunities and > challenges of AI -- has influenced our AI & inclusion work. > > We are deeply grateful to this network for the support to embark on such a > unique, flagship event that we collectively made possible. The connections > fostered and dialogues initiated at the symposium have already begun > influencing our AI & inclusion work, as evident throughout this webpage, > and we look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback from this output > on how we can continue to strengthen that network and build from this > event. > > Many thanks, > > *The BKC/ITS Teams* > > -- > *Celina M.A. Bottino* > *Diretora de Projetos* > *Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)* > https://www.facebook.com/ITSriodejaneiro > itsrio.org > +55 21 3486-0390 > > _______________________________________________ > netsociety mailing list > netsociety(a)lists.networkofcenters.net > https://lists.networkofcenters.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/netsociety >

April 7, 2018