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The AI Ethics Impact Group has designed an AI Ethics Label. It shows the ethical evaluation of an AI system in a concrete, simple representation, similar to the European energy efficiency label.

It randomly spits out quarantine-tips for every life situation: with children in the Corona holidays, bored in the shutdown, alone in solitude or without any idea how to help.

The current issue (German) of the Research Monitor focuses on the norms of participation and diversity as significant components of a democratic public sphere.

We have designed a new digital textbook that places special emphasis on a holistic design.

Most Internet users produce and publish their own media content sooner or later - often without being aware of it and also without knowing the legal framework. The aim of the brochure "Alles geklärt?" ("Everything Sorted?") published by the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (mabb) is to convey this in an easily understandable and practical way, especially to young media producers.

Espe­cial­ly in con­nec­tion with the last elec­tions to the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment, var­i­ous forms of dis­in­for­ma­tion, prop­a­gat­ed over social net­works, played an impor­tant role. This is one of the major focuss­es of the pub­li­ca­tion. Online “trolls” work specif­i­cal­ly on the weak­en­ing of indi­vid­ual per­sons or opin­ions, and are met on the other side by the defend­ers […]

iRights.Lab invites you to a Local Meet­up on 16.5. in Mannheim with a focus on data qual­i­ty. We would like to dis­cuss the fol­low­ing ques­tions with you in a col­lab­o­ra­tive set­ting, draw­ing on your prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence: What are the most impor­tant steps that can be taken with­in an orga­ni­za­tion towards ensur­ing more data qual­i­ty? Which […]

What influ­ence do search engines, social net­works and news aggre­ga­tors have on the pub­lic and the free for­ma­tion of opin­ion? We explore this ques­tion in our Infor­ma­tion Inter­me­di­aries Research Mon­i­tor. The Mon­i­tor reviews cur­rent devel­op­ments in the field of dig­i­tal infor­ma­tion inter­me­di­aries and pro­vides an overview of new sci­en­tif­ic pub­li­ca­tions, the sta­tus of cur­rent projects […]

Since 2016, the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Trans­port and Dig­i­tal Infra­struc­ture (BMVI) has been fund­ing research and devel­op­ment projects relat­ing to dig­i­tal data-based appli­ca­tions for the field of mobil­i­ty 4.0. Now the eager­ly await­ed sec­ond Data Gov­er­nance Report has been pub­lished. The report pro­vides inter­est­ing results from an online sur­vey we con­duct­ed, which focussed on data […]

Digitization in the far north: The iRights.Lab was the event partner of the Digital Week in Kiel.

Video: „Big Data – Loki und die Daten“ (https://medienportal.siemens-stiftung.org/111956), © Siemens Stiftung 2019, lizen­ziert unter CC BY-SA 4.0 inter­na­tion­al, Urheber*in: Sym­pa­thiefilm GmbH und irights-lab.de (Lizen­z­text siehe https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode.de). Until now, the Media Por­tal has lacked con­tent on some of the key top­ics of digitalization—such as Big Data- designed specif­i­cal­ly for use in schools or self-edu­ca­tion. Such […]

At a two-day conference of the Federal Ministry of Transport in Berlin, we led through the programme and also organised two workshops.