Data and algorithms are nowadays ubiquitous in many aspects of our society and lives. They are playing an increasing role in scenarios that can be received as low-risk – getting…
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Three innovative Team Science projects granted in Team Science Call 2022 The Digital Society (‘DiSa’) programme and COMMIT/, a public-private ICT research community, have awarded grants to three innovative Team…
E-magazine of the Digital Society Conference 2021 The third edition of the Digital Society Conference took place on 29 and 30 November 2021. And because COVID-19 is still with us,…
About the Digital Society programme & COMMIT/ The Digital Society (DiSa) is a national research programme funded by the fourteen Dutch universities. The programme stimulates multi- and interdisciplinary research and…
Interview with Distinguished University Professors José van Dijck and Bart Jacobs The digital world is mostly built on market principles rather than on public values, such as privacy, safety and…
Data and algorithms are nowadays ubiquitous in many aspects of our society and lives. They are playing an increasing role in scenarios that can be received as low-risk – getting…
Keynote talk by Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell The theory of Cybernetics first found form in the 1940s and 1950s as a response to the rapid outgrowth of computing technology following World War II….
Keynote talk by Tarleton Gillespie Public debate about content moderation has overwhelmingly focused on removal: social media platforms deleting content and suspending users, or opting not to. But removal is not the only available remedy….
After a year of absence due to the COVID pandemic, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, consisting of fourteen Dutch universities, is back, with a new edition of the…
Which legal, ethical and societal conditions need to be fulfilled for the use of digital solutions in managing the COVID-19 exit-strategy? This was the central question of research that was…
Five partners: INTERSCT, DHS, NWO, NCSC and ACCSS collectively organize a series of (physical) events on one day. We call this day a ‘’fusion” of different events, even with slightly different…
The adoption of artificial intelligence, data science, data analytics, among other techniques is predominant in many contexts and domains: often used to help us decide which items to buy, what…
Under the name ACCSS (pronounced as ‘access’ and short for ACademic Cyber Security Society), our country will have an association for scientists who are active in the field of cybersecurity…
What do children think about computer science and the profession ‘programmer’? Shirley de Wit and her colleagues from the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL) are investigating how children see programmers…
On Thursday October 1st, the Digital Society Health & Well-being program line organised the conference: “AI in Healthcare: Preparing for the future”. On this inspiring afternoon more than 100 viewers…
On Thursday October 1st, the Digital Society Health & Well-being program line organized the conference: “AI in Healthcare: Preparing for the future”. On this inspiring afternoon more than 100 viewers…
Will the changes that society is now undergoing from the corona outbreak be permanent? What other changes await us? You can count on a “New Common”, say fifty Tilburg scientists…
Register now for the Digital Society Health & Well-being conference ‘AI in Healthcare: preparing for the future’ on October 1st Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers great opportunities to reduce the pressure…
Sally Wyatt, 9 July 2020 In early 2020, the corona virus started to take its toll around the world, on people’s health and daily lives, on healthcare systems, and on…
The original interview can be found here. How does the use of artificial intelligence (AI) change organizations in practice? How can organizations improve their application of AI systems? In order…
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in case you missed it in the end-of-year rush, you can catch up on the @_DigitalSociety conference. First - three #podcast moderated by @MJBroersma on a resilient digital society (good reason to learn #Dutch) open.spotify.com/show/3VOSp8Q…
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