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Call for Proposals: Valuing Public Data - data governance for economic, environmental and social development
by Angela Daly Nov. 10, 2023

Nov. 10, 2023

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

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Propaganda and Emerging Technologies Conference - Yale Law School, April '24
by Chinmayi Arun Nov. 9, 2023

Nov. 9, 2023

(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>

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Call for Applications: Fellowship HIIG Berlin
by NoC ＠HIIG Oct. 16, 2023

Oct. 16, 2023

Dear friends of the NoC, please feel free to have a look and share the call for application for the 2024 fellowship program of the HIIG in Berlin. Call for Applications: Internet and Society Fellowship 2024 (hiig.de) <https://www.hiig.de/en/fellowship-2024/> Here you can also find the contact details for further questions. Best regards from Berlin Vincent Hofmann -- 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

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CTS-FGV at IGF
by Luca Belli Oct. 7, 2023

Oct. 7, 2023

Dear colleagues, As many of know, today the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is starting in Kyoto. The Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getulio Vargas (CTS-FGV<https://twitter.com/CTS_FGV>) is participating in a good number of sessions presenting research and discussing IGF outcomes regarding a variety of issues including digital sovereignty, digital commons, AI, community networks, internet openness, platform governance and digital cooperation. You are all kindly invited to join us in the various session you can check here https://medium.com/@ctsfgv/cts-fgv-researchers-will-participate-in-the-igf-… You can check the main highlights of the sessions here https://twitter.com/CTS_FGV/status/1709644049018224888 All the best 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.

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October 5, 3-4:30 pm CET, panel on open science
by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay Sept. 27, 2023

Sept. 27, 2023

Dear NoC colleagues and friends, Greetings from CNRS Center for Internet and Society in Paris. We are organising our yearly conference next week, and like the previous edition, it includes a hybrid session in English, with (and open to) members of the NoC. This time the topic is open science, and we have the pleasure to welcome two guests from HIIG. The session is scheduled next Wednesday 5 October, at 3pm-4:30pm CET Paris time. It is the last at the end of the programme: https://cis.cnrs.fr/journees-du-cis-2023/ Registration form: https://cis.cnrs.fr/extras/inscriptions/cis-conf-2023.php Please select the last session box 'by visioconference', it is in red towards the end of the form, and you'll receive the link a day or so before the event. Panel title: Assessing impact, sharing control: analyzing multi-stakeholder relationships in open science infrastructures Coordinated by CIS-CNRS Open Knowledge cluster and by the PathOS and Odeco projects With, and open to members of the Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers Open science platforms are a new type of meeting point between scientific offer and scientific demand. They increase: (1) the variety of available scientific resources (journal articles, educational toolkits, raw and processed data, software, research notebooks), (2) their findability, accessibility, interoperability and reusability, and (3) the variety of possible usages and users of those resources (especially societal and economical). These changes are both causing, and caused by, the recomposition of the stakeholders either contributing to, using, operating, financing and regulating those infrastructures, in a way unheard in previous knowledge regimes: governments, research funding organizations, industry, publishers, research producing organizations, research communities, civil societies and general public. Proper impact assessment of open science policies is thus required to: (1) better understand the academic, economical and societal effects those platforms and other open data commons have, (2) figure out whether the actual impact is indeed in line with the promoted and desired objectives, (3) base future public policies on these evidences. But impact assessment does only indirectly address the question of infrastructure control, especially the issue of disparities between big-scale and grassroots actors, that especially shows in so called “citizen science” and the possible solutions to mitigate power imbalances, especially by using law as an incentive. We will discuss those questions by presenting the latest findings and research questions of two EU funded projects hosted at CIS: the Odeco open data project and the PathOS open science project. Moderator: Simon Dumas-Primbault (Open Science chair, OpenEdition) Confirmed speakers: Ramya Chandrasekhar (CIS-CNRS, Odeco project) Simon Apartis (CIS-CNRS, PathOS project) Marcel Wrzesinski (Open Access Officer at Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft) Freia Kuper (Knowledge and Society program at Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft) Bastian Greshake Tzovaras (Tools, Practices, Systems programme, Alan Turing Institute) Hope to see some on you there, Kind regards, Simon Apartis, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, and Francesca Musiani on behalf of the organising team -- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay Research professor, CNRS https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/melanie-dulong-2/ Director, Center for Internet and Society of CNRS, Paris https://cis.cnrs.fr/en/the-cis/

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Morozov and Digital Sovereignty at CTS-FGV
by Luca Belli Sept. 1, 2023

Sept. 1, 2023

Dear all, In case you are interested, next Monday, 4 September, we will have the great pleasure to welcome Evgeny Morozov at CTS-FGV to present his latest work “The Santiago Boys” and discuss the future of Digital Sovereignty in Brazil with us. The event will be livestreamed here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnLcDFeWQ4 The event agenda is available here (and also below) https://portal.fgv.br/eventos/santiago-boys-interview-evgeny-morozov Agenda: 14:00 – 15:00: The Santiago Boys: An interview with Evgeny Morozov Evgeny Morozov interviewed by Luca Belli 15:00 – 16:45 How to build a digital sovereignty agenda for Brazil? Evgeny Morozov, author Samara Castro, Secretary of Digital Policies, Presidency of the Republic Marcos Dantas, NIC.br Luca Belli, Professor and Coordinator, CTS FGV Helena Lastres, Professor UFRJ Sarita Albagli, Professor and Researcher PPGCI Moderator: Flávia Lefèvre, Coalizão Direitos na Rede 16:45 – 17:15 Conclusion Estela Aranha, Special Advisor for Digital Policy to the Minister of Justice Tatiana Roque, Secretary for Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro Please feel free to share this email through your networks! Best 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.

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two job openings in the UNESCO AI Ethics team
by duaa.ayounes＠gmail.com Aug. 20, 2023

Aug. 20, 2023

Dear all, I am writing to let you know about two openings that we currently have in UNESCO as part of the AI Ethics team, As part of a European Commission funded project <https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/artificial-intelligence-partnership-betw een-unesco-and-eu-speed-implementation-ethical-rules> , we are currently hiring a Project Officer <https://careers.unesco.org/job/Paris-Project-Officer-%28Social-and-Human-Sc iences%29/776697402/?from=email&refid=8720119002&utm_source=J2WEmail&source= 2&eid=128402-202322140522-16589454502&locale=en_GB> and a Project Assistant <https://careers.unesco.org/job/Paris-Project-Assistant-%28Social-and-Human- Sciences%29/776698902/?from=email&refid=8720119002&utm_source=J2WEmail&sourc e=2&eid=128402-202322140522-16589454502&locale=en_GB> This is a very exciting project that will encompass several work streams, including supporting countries in creating and strengthening their national AI related laws and institutions, establishing an expert group that would support the work on the national level, and helping to organize an annual flagship event on the ethics of AI, Since the adoption of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000381137> we have been working diligently on a comprehensive implementation plan that would cover all AI stakeholders and ensure that we are indeed moving from principles to practice, and not remaining on a high level of generality, We have developed a Readiness Assessment Methodology <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000385198> that is currently being deployed in more than 30 countries, and an Ethical Impact Assessment <https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000386276> piloted as a procurement tool, and we launched the Women for the Ethics of AI <https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-launches-women-4-ethical-ai-platf orm> platform, to strengthen female leadership in the field, all is that to say that a lot is happening and it is an exciting time to join UNESCO, While the job is advertised for 1 year, the project through which it's funded is for three years, so the likelihood of extension is certainly there, The deadline to apply is the 31st of August, and if you have questions or would like to discuss more please let me know, I am on holidays so I might be slow in responding, but will do my best to prioritize queries Many thanks and please feel free to forward this to other mailing lists Doaa Doaa ABU-ELYOUNES, PhD Program Specialist Ethics of AI Bioethics and Ethics of Science, SHS Sector, UNESCO 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 68 05 84 <https://www.linkedin.com/in/doaa-abu-elyounes-700205210/> LinkedIn | <https://twitter.com/DYounes6> Twitter

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CfP | Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting (DigiMeet 2023): Diversity in digital transformation | 28.11.2023
by Nina Hahne Aug. 8, 2023

Aug. 8, 2023

Dear NoC-Colleagues, We heartily invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to participate in this year's virtual "Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting" (DigiMeet 2023) on 28 November, 09:30 am - 05:00 pm CET. Please share the Call for Participation with you network. Abstracts can be submitted until 20 September via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=digimeet2023 DigiMeet is a virtual networking event jointly organised by the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt), the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) and the Weizenbaum Institute (WI), this year in cooperation with the The Leibniz Institute for Media Research - Hans Bredow Institute (HBI). The event brings together doctoral and postdoctoral researchers across disciplines and allows them to discuss their research with experts from the participating institutions, either in thematic sessions or in Open Space presentations. DigiMeet 2023 focuses on the topic "Diversity in digital transformation". We look forward to exciting talks, discussions, and workshops on the focus topic, but also to presentations tackling other current developments und challenges in the research field. Please find more information on the programme and possible formats for contribution in the CfP. Feel free to contact us with any questions regarding the event. We hope for many international participants. Kind regards Maria Staudte (bidt), Nina Hahne (CAIS), Katharina Mosene (HBI) and Ramona Picenoni (WI) ------ Dr. Nina Hahne Referentin Vernetzung und Nachwuchsförderung (Inter)national Networks, PhDnet@CAIS Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH Universitätsstraße 104, 44799 Bochum Deutschland / Germany www.cais-research.de<http://www.cais-research.de/> Sitz: Bochum - Amtsgericht Bochum HRB 16476 Geschäftsführer: Prof. Dr. Michael Baurmann, Tim Pfenner Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Christina Reinhardt

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CfP "AI Transparency and Accountability" organised by IGF Coalition on Data and AI Governance
by Luca Belli July 31, 2023

July 31, 2023

Dear colleagues, In case you work on AI and Data Protection, you might be interested in the Call for Papers on "AI Transparency and Accountability" organised by the UN IGF Coalition on Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance (DAIG) https://intgovforum.org/en/filedepot_download/279/26021 ** The deadline is 25 August** Paper proposals from Global South countries are particularly welcome! The papers will be included in the first report of the Coalition on Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance, which will be launched at the annual IGF Coalition meeting, dedicated to “Can (generative) AI be compatible with Data Protection?” https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-dc-daig-can-generative-ai-be-co… Please feel free to share this message! All the best 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.

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"The first 15 years (and some) of the Nexa Center for Internet & Society"
by J.C. DE MARTIN July 25, 2023

July 25, 2023

Hi All, Almost 17 years ago (in November 2006) Marco Ricolfi and I established in Turin the Nexa Center for Internet & Society. Now Marco and I wrote an article trying to explain the original context, our initial objectives, Nexa's main activities, lesson learned, future outlook. It is available here: https://nexa.polito.it/the-first-15-years-of-the-Nexa-Center-for-Internet-a…. All the best, juan carlos prof. juan carlos de martin nexa center for internet & society / faculty co-director biennale tecnologia / scientific curator politecnico di torino italy

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