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The Emmett communication and networking platform goes online today on the occasion of the European Open Data for Smart Mobility Conference 2020 (ODSMC). The conference is part of the program of the German EU Council Presidency.

In an online symposium we celebrated the last exciting 12 months of the digital // memory funding programme. Over 90 participants from many European discussed with us the future of the historical-civic education.

Dig­i­ti­za­tion […] affects our every­day life and thus us as indi­vid­u­als, as part of dif­fer­ent groups and as mem­bers of soci­ety. There­fore, the under­stand­ing of dig­i­ti­za­tion must be expand­ed to include the dimen­sion of social process­es that it ini­ti­ates and in which it becomes effec­tive. Thus the authors Jaana Müller-Brehm, Michael Puntschuh and Philipp Otto […]

In an online symposium we celebrated the last exciting 12 months of the digital // memory funding programme. Over 90 participants from many European discussed with us the future of the historical-civic education.

Based on the char­ac­ter­is­tics of suit­abil­i­ty for every­day use, eco­nom­ic effi­cien­cy and acces­si­bil­i­ty, we have con­duct­ed an exten­sive analy­sis of the sta­tus quo and of crit­i­cal points when it comes to mod­ern copy­right law. The life real­i­ty of a gamer, a stu­dent, a start-up founder, a pho­tog­ra­ph­er, a researcher and a retiree were the appro­pri­ate […]

Our expert Micheal Puntschuh spoke about algorithms and ethics and presented the Algor.Rules on the "Netz September", the annual conference of Russian NGO Teplitsa and the Goethe-Institut Moscow.

Incor­rect and mis­lead­ing infor­ma­tion, which often leads to or is based on con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries, is a defin­ing char­ac­ter­is­tic of the infor­ma­tion envi­ron­ment in the coro­na cri­sis. They will be dis­sem­i­nat­ed world­wide, espe­cial­ly through inter­me­di­ary appli­ca­tions such as social net­works and video plat­forms. There they usu­al­ly spread faster than they can be encountered. In terms of […]

Where nor­mal­ly mil­lions of vis­i­tors through­out Ger­many expe­ri­ence the approx­i­mate­ly 8,000 mon­u­ments, craftsmen’s and mer­chants’ hous­es, cas­tles, church­es, indus­tri­al plants, ships and archae­o­log­i­cal sites at close quar­ters, this year the health of the par­tic­i­pants is the top pri­or­i­ty. After all, the Coro­na pan­dem­ic has upset our every­day lives. So the doors of the mon­u­ments in […]

We go deep­er into game devel­op­ment and answer ques­tions like: What are the rea­sons for Hate­speech? What are the mech­a­nisms involved in its spread? How does hate speech spread online affect the real world? And above all: What can be done about it?  In a com­put­er game devel­oped as a pro­to­type, the rel­e­vance of the prob­lem […]

The practical guide is a concrete aid for developers and their managers to implement ethical rules for algorithmic systems in everyday work.

The practical guide is a concrete aid for developers and their managers to implement ethical rules for algorithmic systems in everyday work.

Since October 2019, the EVZ Foundation supports six Polish and German projects who work on innovative digital formats for historical-civic education. In autumn of 2020, we want to celebrate the conclusion of this first year of the funding program digital // memory.