Category: Blog
One year Facebook Oversight Board
The Facebook Oversight Board commenced its operations in October 2020. This blog post provides insights into its responsibilities and accomplishments.
Gaia-X: Digital Sovereignty for Europe
With data becoming increasingly important as a raw material for an economic area, it is essential to preserve this resource and provide everyone with optimal conditions for handling their data. Gaia-X has set out to realise…
The Golden Twenties of technology regulation
The Roaring Twenties of technology regulation are dawning: For the European Union is no longer reacting to developments with its regulation, but is proactively presenting guidelines. In doing so, it could set standards worldwide.
Digitalisation Research and Network Meeting
DigiMeet took place virtually on 10 June 2021 with the topic “sustainability in digital transformation: charting new terrain, exploring tensions.” The main purpose of this interdisciplinary event was to provide a forum…
Nudge Units and Data-driven Nudging
The past decade has witnessed a global trend of using nudging to intractable policy problems. To date, nudging has been applied in a range of different spheres such as public health, taxation and environmental protection; it is considered…
Interdisciplinary challenges on the way to public value-oriented software engineering
Nowadays, the implementation of values in different types of software-intensive systems – from social media to AI – continues to be topical in many countries around the world. More and more legal frameworks are starting…
Public service online offerings and “internet-specific design tools”
Public service broadcasting is subject to the legal mandate of ensuring diversity; but what about when algorithmic processes and software-based selections influence the delivery of content on online platforms? The project “Coding…
Enabling precision medicine with AI
AI and related technologies keep shaping our society, providing us with more and more solutions that seemed impossible only a few years ago. This blog post gives an insight into the research field of bioinformatics, showing…
How can interactive AI help us write emails?
In this project, we built a prototype AI email editor with text generation from Natural Language Processing (NLP) and asked 156 people to write emails with it. We compared different user interface settings and use by native…
Legal freedom or legal mush – Which law applies to the internet?
Digital content is ubiquitous, the legal systems of states are local. Conflict of laws is usually the legal solution, but it does not always and not completely fit. Comprehensive and functional comparative law can be the methodological…