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The sec­ond edi­tion of the Infor­ma­tion Inter­me­di­aries Research Mon­i­tor was pub­lished under the title “‘We need to talk’ – Restor­ing com­pre­hen­si­bil­i­ty to the world of media”. This is the lat­est in a series of pub­li­ca­tions that iRights.Lab has pro­duced on behalf of the Media Author­i­ty of North Rhine-West­phalia. The aim is to take stock of […]

On behalf of the “Lan­desanstalt für Medi­en NRW” (state media author­i­ty), the Think Tank iRights.Lab is pro­duc­ing a reg­u­lar research mon­i­tor. Its cur­rent issue focus­es on “Micro­tar­get­ing and per­son­al­ized polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tion in social net­works”. Click here to down­load (Ger­man).

Under the title “The Future of E‑Government — Pro­pos­als for a Cit­i­zen-Friend­ly and Secure Dig­i­ti­za­tion of Admin­is­tra­tion”, iRights.Lab con­duct­ed an exten­sive study on the sub­ject of e‑government on behalf of Bun­des­druck­erei. It shows how a mod­ern dig­i­tal admin­is­tra­tion must be set up. Here you can down­load the study (Ger­man).

Under the title “Young Europe”, the TUI Foun­da­tion in coop­er­a­tion with the inde­pen­dent think tank iRights.Lab from Berlin launched a hands-on project on the future of Europe in Novem­ber 2018. Young peo­ple in Ger­many between the ages of 16 and 26 were invit­ed to talk about their vision of the future of Europe and how […]

With­in the frame­work of the mFUND research ini­tia­tive of the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Trans­port and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture (BMVI) and in the course of the asso­ci­at­ed accom­pa­ny­ing research, iRights.Lab is work­ing on data gov­er­nance in the mobil­i­ty sec­tor. Our work focus­es on novel self gov­er­nance struc­tures of data-dri­ven inno­va­tions for com­pa­nies and pub­lic author­i­ties. The third […]

As part of the mFUND research ini­tia­tive, iRights.Lab is inves­ti­gat­ing novel self-gov­er­nance con­cepts in the field of data-dri­ven inno­va­tions. Since 2016, the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Trans­port and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture (BMVI) has been fund­ing research and devel­op­ment projects on dig­i­tal, data-based appli­ca­tions for the field of mobil­i­ty 4.0. The eager­ly await­ed sec­ond Data Gov­er­nance Report has now […]

The con­fer­ence “Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence, Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Brain Data” took place on 11th and 12th April in Freiburg. Around 40 sci­en­tists from all over Ger­many, Switzer­land and the USA attend­ed the con­fer­ence. Among other things, it dealt with eth­i­cal and legal aspects of the newly emerg­ing mar­ket of neu­rotech­no­log­i­cal appli­ca­tions for con­sumers and the ques­tion of […]

Incom­plete data sets, out­dat­ed infor­ma­tion, incor­rect for­mats — these clas­sic chal­lenges for data qual­i­ty and steps to solv­ing them were the top­ics of the Local Meet­up, to which iRights.Lab invit­ed par­tic­i­pants as part of the mFUND accom­pa­ny­ing research on data gov­er­nance. The exchange enti­tled “Data Qual­i­ty — Using Data Gov­er­nance to Design Inter­nal Organ­i­sa­tion­al Process­es” […]

The Inno­va­tion Office “Dig­i­tal Life” is tak­ing up its work online and offline. As the new think tank of the Fed­er­al Min­istry for Fam­i­ly Affairs, Senior Cit­i­zens, Women and Youth (BMFS­FJ), it bun­dles many projects and process­es. It is an inno­va­tion dri­ver for the pos­i­tive shap­ing of digi­ti­sa­tion with­in and out­side the min­istry and sup­ports […]

This year iRights.Lab again was rep­re­sent­ed as a part­ner at the re:publica in the STA­TION Berlin and pre­sent­ed itself with its own exhi­bi­tion stand. The vis­i­tors to the exhi­bi­tion, which is one of the world’s largest of its kind, were able to find out about our many dif­fer­ent projects, dis­cuss them with experts and get […]

Every­one talks about blockchain. Some peo­ple under­stand the tech­nol­o­gy, but most do not. Some believe it’s a trend, anoth­er hype that will soon be for­got­ten, while oth­ers believe it will make the world anoth­er, a bet­ter place, automat­ing process­es and reor­ga­niz­ing our lives in every imag­in­able way. On one thing, how­ev­er, every­one agrees: blockchain is far […]

With “Hi, Ai meets iRights.Lab Berlin” a mul­ti­fac­eted evening took place at the cin­e­ma Eva-Licht­spiele, with iRights.Lab par­tic­i­pat­ing as a coop­er­a­tion part­ner. The evening fea­tured a screen­ing of the film Hi, Ai, which has been nom­i­nat­ed for a 2019 Deutsch­er Film­preis. It deals with the ques­tion of humanoid robots as a new form of life in our soci­ety, […]