November 2023 - netsociety - server-nexa.polito.it

Call for Applications: 2024-2025 BKC Fellows and 2024-2025 Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholars

by McGee, Madeline

Dear NoC colleagues and friends, I'm delighted to announce two exciting open calls for opportunities at the Berkman Klein Center: one for our 2024-2025 BKC Fellows cohort and one for the Institute for Rebooting Social Media's 2024-2025 Visting Scholars program. We invite you to share these opportunities within your networks and encourage anyone who might be interested to apply! Details are below. [Logo for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.]The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University<https://harvard.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef13e6d75b74b1791f13115c…> is now accepting fellowship applications for the 2024-2025 academic year through our annual open call.<https://harvard.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef13e6d75b74b1791f13115c…> This opportunity is for those who wish to spend 2024-2025 in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of the Center's vibrant community of research and practice, and who seek to engage in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet's most important and compelling issues. We invite applications from people working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap with ongoing work at the Berkman Klein Center and may expose our community to new opportunities and approaches. We encourage applications from scholars, practitioners, innovators, engineers, artists, and others from regions all over the world who are committed to understanding and advancing the public interest and who seek to advance ideas, projects, or activities in all phases on a spectrum from incubation to reflection. Note that this year we are also returning to accepting applications from people pursuing PhDs. Through this annual open call, we seek to advance our collective work and give it new direction, and to deepen and broaden our networked community across backgrounds, disciplines, cultures, and home bases. We welcome you to read more about the program below, and to consider joining us as a fellow! To make Berkman Klein fellowships a possibility for as wide a range of applicants as possible, in the 2024-2025 academic year we will award a small number of stipends to incoming fellows selected through our open call for applications. Applications will be accepted until Monday, January 22, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time. Check out our full call for applications<https://harvard.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ef13e6d75b74b1791f13115c…> for more information about our program and for application instructions, and reach out with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you! [A blue graphic that states "Call for Applications: Institute for Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholars."]The Berkman Klein Center's Institute for Rebooting Social Media is now welcoming applications for its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Scholars! The program<https://rebootingsocialmedia.org/2023/11/21/call-for-2024-2025-rsm-visiting…> is open to scholars for whom serving as a professor is their full-time commitment, including in assistant, associate, and full professor or equivalent roles in countries outside of the U.S. This interdisciplinary cohort will undertake original projects that investigate the problems and opportunities of networked communication and social media while engaging with RSM faculty directors, staff, students, and the broader Berkman Klein Center and Harvard University communities. The deadline for applications is Monday, January 8th, at 11:59pm Eastern Time. Further information about the program can be found in the call<https://rebootingsocialmedia.org/2023/11/20/call-for-2024-2025-rsm-visiting…> and the application form<https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_87cAyJXA15ye102>. We would appreciate your help in sharing these links across your centers and networks! And please feel free to retweet<https://twitter.com/BKCHarvard/status/1726988282691756215> us and repost<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/berkman-center-for-internet-%26-society-at-h…> on LinkedIn.

Nov. 30, 2023

Conference Invitation: Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI at GWU (December 7-8)

by NoC ＠HIIG

Dear NoC-friends, please find below the invitation to the conference Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI at GWU in Washington D.C. Best from Berlin Vincent Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI A Conference Organized by NIST-NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society and the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub with the above institutional and funding partners Time: Thursday, December 7th at 10:30 Am - Friday, December 8 at 4:00pm Place: The Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street, Washington DC There is no AI without data. Generative AI is built on large language models (LLMs) which in turn are trained on large and diverse pools of data. Researchers, corporations, and individuals rely on these LLMs to answer questions, make predictions, and solve complex problems. But that data is not governed effectively; policymakers struggle to enforce copyright and protect personal data. Moreover, content creators lack protection for their ideas and opinions. Finally, the models may be built on incomplete, inaccurate and unrepresentative data. The organizers of the conference aim to: - Identify gaps in data governance for LLMs. - Suggest and discuss ideas to address these gaps. Register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-governance-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-re…> Conference speakers will include computer and data scientists from companies such as Microsoft, Hugging Face, IBM, and Eleuther AI; AI researchers from University of Maryland, Stanford, Princeton, the Distributed AI Research Institute and the AFL-CIO; and policymakers from Germany, the UK,, the EU, and the US, among others. Panels will focus on: - The Sources of LLM Data - The Continuum of Closed and Open LLMs and their Implications for Data Governance - Data Openness and Society - What are Governments Doing to Close the Data Governance Gaps? - New Ideas for Shared Data Governance For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website where you will find more information and a list of readings on these issues. If you have specific questions, please email Adam Zable, Director of Emerging Technology at the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, GWU, at ajzable(a)gmail.com -- Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 · F +49 30 206 089 60 · www.hiig.de <http://www.hiig.de> · Twitter <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> · Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/hiigberlin/> · LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/school/hiigberlin/> Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 291 151 171 Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer · Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß

Nov. 21, 2023

Could you please post this to the list? Thank you

by susan ariel aaronson

Subject line: Conference Invitation: Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI at GWU (December 7-8) Data Governance in the Age of Generative AI A Conference Organized by NIST-NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society and the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub with the above institutional and funding partners Time: Thursday, December 7th at 10:30 Am - Friday, December 8 at 4:00pm Place: The Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E Street, Washington DC There is no AI without data. Generative AI is built on large language models (LLMs) which in turn are trained on large and diverse pools of data. Researchers, corporations, and individuals rely on these LLMs to answer questions, make predictions, and solve complex problems. But that data is not governed effectively; policymakers struggle to enforce copyright and protect personal data. Moreover, content creators lack protection for their ideas and opinions. Finally, the models may be built on incomplete, inaccurate and unrepresentative data. The organizers of the conference aim to: - Identify gaps in data governance for LLMs. - Suggest and discuss ideas to address these gaps. Register here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-governance-in-the-age-of-generative-ai-re…> Conference speakers will include computer and data scientists from companies such as Microsoft, Hugging Face, IBM, and Eleuther AI; AI researchers from University of Maryland, Stanford, Princeton, the Distributed AI Research Institute and the AFL-CIO; and policymakers from Germany, the UK,, the EU, and the US, among others. Panels will focus on: - The Sources of LLM Data - The Continuum of Closed and Open LLMs and their Implications for Data Governance - Data Openness and Society - What are Governments Doing to Close the Data Governance Gaps? - New Ideas for Shared Data Governance For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website where you will find more information and a list of readings on these issues. If you have specific questions, please email Adam Zable, Director of Emerging Technology at the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, GWU, at ajzable(a)gmail.com -- *Susan Ariel Aaronson, Ph.D.* *Research Professor of International Affairs and Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University* *co-PI, Governance, NIST- NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society * https://elliott.gwu.edu/susan-aaronson https://www.trails.umd.edu/ *Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub* *https://datagovhub.elliott.gwu.edu/ <https://datagovhub.elliott.gwu.edu/>* *Please check out our you tube channel at https://tinyurl.com/bh962v58 <https://tinyurl.com/bh962v58>* *Also,* *Senior Fellow, Economics, Center for International Governance Innovation * https://www.cigionline.org/person/susan-ariel-aaronson *To see many of my publications go to:http://goo.gl/j9bdKY <http://goo.gl/j9bdKY>*

Nov. 16, 2023

CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme

by Luca Belli

Dear colleagues, It is a great pleasure to announce the 2024 edition of the CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme to be hosted at the Center for Technology and Society at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro. https://cyberbrics.info/call-for-applications-cyberbrics-fellowship-program… The programme aims to support a selected group of highly qualified postgraduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral researchers working in the area related to the activities of the 2024 work plan of the CyberBRICS project<https://cyberbrics.info/>, namely artificial intelligence, digital industrial policy, and AI regulation, with a particular focus on cloud computing and digital public infrastructures in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS). The programme will offer five fellowships for a duration of up to 6 (six) months, ideally from March to October 2024, at CTS-FGV<http://cts.fgv.br/>, providing economic, intellectual, and networking resources to support selected scholars coming from the BRICS or having relevant experience in at least one of the BRICS countries. Fellows might also be able to extend the CyberBRICS Fellowship for an additional period. The deadline for applications is 10 December 2023 We strongly encourage applications from members of BIPOC communities, immigrants and refugees, and LGBTQ+ individuals. The Call for Applications is available on the website of the CyberBRICS project and can be downloaded on the CTS-FGV website https://direitorio.fgv.br/sites/default/files/arquivos/call-for-application… Selected fellows will be expected to be based in Rio de Janeiro and will have a dedicated office within the FGV main building, in 190 praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. Please feel free to share this message thoguht your networks. Kind regards Luca [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio.jpg] Luca Belli, PhD Professor | FGV Law Schoool Coordinator | Center for Technology & Society [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_tel.jpg]+55 21 3799 5763 t@1lucabelli<https://twitter.com/1lucabelli> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_direito_rio_map.j… de Botafogo, 190 13º andar Botafogo - Rio de Janeiro, RJ - CEP: 22250-900 [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]perso… www.lucabelli.net<https://lucabelli.net/> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]CTS-F… direitorio.fgv.br/cts<https://direitorio.fgv.br/cts> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]CPDP LatAm www.cpdp.lat<http://www.CPDP.lat> [http://www.fgv.br/mailing/2018/direito_rio/assinatura/fgv_ass_url.jpg]cyber… www.cyberbrics.info<http://www.cyberbrics.info/> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message, as well as any attached document, may contain personal data and information that is confidential and privileged and is intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying or distribution of this email or attached documents, or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email by mistake.

Nov. 15, 2023

Call for Proposals: Valuing Public Data - data governance for economic, environmental and social development

by Angela Daly

Call for Proposals: Valuing Public Data - data governance for economic, environmental and social development Co-leads: Prof Angela Daly (University of Dundee) & Dr Esperanza Miyake (University of Strathclyde) Dates: 25-26 January 2024 Location: hybrid - University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland and Online (Zoom) We seek proposals - including for presentations, workshops, posters and panels - from researchers wishing to present their work at the final workshop of the Scottish Universities Insight Institute (SUII)-funded Public Data for Development in Scotland and the European Union (EU) programme <https://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/ScotlandinEurope/PublicSectorD…>. This 2-day event brings together the questions and themes explored through a series of online workshops we have been organising in 2023 on different aspects of using public data for development (social, economic and environmental), and constitute an important contribution to the programme’s final outputs. The programme itself promotes knowledge exchange activities between academics and practitioners working on ‘public data’ - which we take to mean data (personal and non-personal) held by the public sector and other public interest/public good data which may be held by companies, cooperatives and charities - in Scotland and the EU. We examine and share research, policy insights and good practice about how data held by the public sectors in Scotland and the EU can best be managed and used to ensure value is garnered from this data for the benefit of the publics in these countries. A key priority is taking into account the diversity of that public in Scotland and the EU (and beyond), including the need to work against inequalities in data to ensure social, economic and environmental development are both ethical and equitable. We look at: the interplay between public, private and third sectors; how data can be used to produce public benefit; how such benefits might be shared to advance social, economic and environmental goals; experience of particular sectors, including health, criminal justice, environmental protection and local government/public administration. This final event will be a research-focussed workshop, including knowledge exchange, for researchers active on this topic to present their research to a multistakeholder audience, opening up pathways to impact. We seek proposals on interdisciplinary research topics relevant to public data for development in Scotland and the EU, and beyond. Suggested topics include but are not limited to: - What are public data and public data goods? - Public data for social, economic and/or environmental development - “Good” and “bad” data development and all the nuances between the two - How to “value” data and what does “value” mean in public data contexts? - Benefit sharing from public data uses and appropriate and effective models - Governance frameworks for public data for development - Digital and technological platforms and infrastructures for public data including the impact of new technologies and applications such as artificial intelligence/machine learning trained on public data - Perspectives, dialogue and harmonisation between post-Brexit Scotland and Europe (and beyond) on these topics Please send a title, abstract of no more than 300 words, the suggested format (presentation/panel/poster/workshop etc), and short biographies of authors/speakers/convenors (no more than 150 words) to Andy Porter andrew.porter(a)strath.ac.uk by 30 November 2023, stating too whether you plan to participate in person in Glasgow or online. We have some limited funds to support the in-person participation of UK-based presenters who are early career researchers, low income or unpaid participants, and/or people from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds. Please also indicate whether you would wish to be considered for these funds in your submission. We are currently liaising with Scottish Universities Press <https://www.sup.ac.uk/> to explore the possibility of an edited collection, based on selected research presentations. Please indicate in your abstract if you would be interested in potentially being included in such a collection. Key dates: - Submission of proposals 30 November 2023 - Decisions on proposals 7 December 2023 - Hybrid conference takes place in Glasgow/online 25-26 January 2024

Nov. 10, 2023

Abstracts by tomorrow: Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference - Yale Law School, April '24

by Chinmayi Arun

Dear All, I'm sharing this again since the deadline for abstracts is tomorrow. Best, Chinmayi ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chinmayi Arun <chinmayiarun(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 10:42 AM Subject: Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference - Yale Law School, April '24 To: <bkc-announce(a)eon.law.harvard.edu>, Discussion list for GigaNet Members <GIGANET-MEMBERS(a)listserv.syr.edu>, <netsociety(a)lists.networkofcenters.net> (apologies for cross-posting) Dear All, We're inviting abstracts for an international conference on Propaganda and Emerging Technologies that we're hosting at Yale Law School next Spring. Details are below. My wonderful colleague ( salwa.hoque(a)yale.edu ) will be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Best, Chinmayi *April 5th and 6th, 2024, Yale Law School* *Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference* We invite abstracts for ‘Propaganda and Emerging Technologies,’ a conference hosted by the *Information Society Project <https://law.yale.edu/isp>*, and to be held at Yale Law School on April 5th and 6th, 2024. Problems of propaganda, hate speech, misinformation, manipulation, and electoral influence have persisted for years. These problems will likely increase as generative AI and extended reality technologies become more sophisticated and accessible. Because the problems are global as well as domestic, the solutions require a global as well as a domestic perspective. This international and interdisciplinary conference aims to explore how generative AI, extended reality, and other emerging technologies create new problems for the public sphere, and the best ways to deal with these problems. The goal of the conference is to help lawyers, policy makers and social media companies anticipate and plan for a new wave of propaganda in the age of artificial intelligence. We invite abstracts from legal scholars and experts, as well as scholars from other disciplines – including history, public health, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, media studies, information science, computer science, statistics, and cultural studies – that investigate questions of propaganda: historic, contemporary and emerging. We welcome papers that explore (but are not limited to) how new technologies like AI and extended reality might undermine or increase distrust in knowledge-producing and credentialing institutions, including science, journalism, and academia, and how best to counteract these effects. We also seek work that discusses how new technologies will produce new forms and new kinds of propaganda. *Please submit your 500 words abstract in this **submission form <https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle…>*. Authors whose papers are accepted will be expected to provide full paper drafts by March 1st prior to the conference, which will be circulated to all conference participants. Please send your questions to *Salwa Hoque <salwa.hoque@yale.edu?subject=Propganda%20and%20Emerging%20Technologies%20-%20CfP%20-%20Inquiry>* . *Deadline: Our submissions portal will close on November 10th*. We request people who will require an invitation letter to apply for a U.S. visa, to apply by October 30th. Yale-ISP is unable to assist with visa procedures for international presenters; all presenters are requested to obtain the necessary visa(s) and make their own travel arrangements. *Click here for additional information on this Call for Papers and Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference.* <https://law.yale.edu/isp/initiatives/majority-world-initiative>

Nov. 9, 2023