The Sustainable Computing Lab

Sylvie Delacroix: Beware of 'Algorithmic Regulation'
2019-05-08 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
Among the structural elements that enable social media platforms to durably influence our moods and behaviour, their answering a widespread desire to be liked and accepted – a desire which is seldom transparent to us – greatly increases their manipulative power. So does their ability to harvest fine-grained information about their users (and acquaintances). This data puts such platforms in a position where they can not only covertly influence our thoughts, moods and behaviour: they can do so in a way that is maximally effective given our respective traits, vulnerabilities etc. This paper argues that if we are to stand any chance of taming these platforms’ considerable manipulative potential, some conceptual spring-cleaning is needed.
First, we need to stop confusing regulatory power and regulation. Whereas in mechanics or cybernetics there is no need to distinguish between the two -since there are no agents whose autonomy is infringed by regulation- when the concept of regulation is applied to human behaviour this distinction becomes crucial, and hinges upon the concept of authority. Since social media platforms do not – yet – claim authority, they do not regulate us: they have regulatory power over us. Our task is to regulate that power.
To succeed in the latter task, we also need to acknowledge that the type of influence exercised by social media platforms is not merely non-deliberative: it is also covert. While the former is often unproblematic from an ethical/legal perspective, the latter not only threatens our right to freedom of thought, it also compromises our commitment to moral equality.
Read the full paper here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3327191

Ben Wagner: Content Moderation in Practice
2019-05-15 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
What does content moderation of online platforms actually look like in practice? How much content moderation takes places manually and how much is automated? The following talk will provide an overview of existing content moderation on different European platforms, as well as the challenges and difficulties in measuring the effectiveness of these practices.
As such, the talk will discuss both empirical and theoretical challenges, attempting to provide a broad overview for a primarily academic audience. We look forward to seeing you there!

The new AVMSD and platform regulation: challenges for national legislators and regulators.
2019-06-03 14:00 - 17:00 UTC
The EU’s new Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) is an important step for platform regulation in regulation. While new provisions embedded in the AVMSD attempt to increase transparency and reduce content which is seen a problematic online, they also require online service providers to change their terms of services (ToS). This leads to considerable challenges for national legislators and regulators in interpreting the AVMSD in a way which supports fundamental human rights.
To discuss these issues, we have we have invited some of the leading European experts on this topics to participate in a workshop to discuss these challenges:

Lubos Kuklis, Chair of the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA)
Joan Barata, Intermediary Liability Fellow, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford
Krisztina Rozgonyi, Assistant Professor, Media Governance and Media Industries Research Lab, University of Vienna
Susanne Lackner, Vice Chair, Austrian Communications Authority
Ben Wagner, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Society, Vienna University of Economics and Business

As space is limited, please register for the event with Hannah Waltl <mis-sek@wu.ac.at> if you wish to attend.

Workshop Engineering Accountable Information Systems (ECIS 2019, Stockholm)
2019-06-10 10:00 - 17:00 UTC
Workshop Program
* 10:00 – 10 :15 Welcome* 10:15 – 11:15 Session 1: Accountability and Inequality* 10:15 – 10:30 Digital Inequality: Call for Socio-technical Privacy Management Approaches (Kemal Ozan Aybar, Soheil Human and Rita Gsenger)* 10:30 – 11:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues* 11:15 – 12:15 Session 2: Accountability and Digital Geography * 11:15 – 11:30 The System Bias of Geographic Information Systems (Ben Wagner, Till Winkler, Svitlana Vakulenko)* 11:15 – 12:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues* 12:15 – 13:15 Lunch Break*13:15 – 14:15 Session 3: Engineering Accountability*13:15 – 13:30 Accountability in the IoT: Systems, Law, and Ways Forward (Jat Singh)*13:30 – 14:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues around it* 14:15 – 15:15 Session 4: Accountability and Consent* 14:15 – 14:30 Context-Sensitivity of Informed Consent: The Emergence of Genetic Data Markets (Niklas Kirchner, Soheil Human and Gustaf Neumann)* 14:30 – 15:15 Discussion on the paper and wider issues around it* 15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break* 15:30 – 17:00 Session 5: Conclusions on Accountable Systems and Next Steps* 17:00 – 17:15 Goodbye
Further details about the workshop are available here: http://ecis2019.eu/programme/workshops-and-tutorials/engineering-accountable-information-systems-1.421417
Organised with the support of:

Project DITAS, H2020 grant 731945

MyData Hub Austria: Meetup #3
2019-06-17 18:00 - 20:30 UTC
In this meetup we will shed light on the topic of data as a property: is it possible to own data, how can data or usage rights for that data be sold and what are the implications?
This is a co-hosted event with VDSG (Vienna Data Science Group).
Agenda:
1. Clara Landler: Welcome & Introduction
2. Christoph Fabianek: Semantic Container for Data Mobility, Closing presentation of FFG funded project
3. Soheil Human, Rita Gsenger, Kemal Ozan Aybar, Niklas Kirchner: short talks on:
– “End-user Empowerment: An Interdisciplinary Perspective”,
– “Digital Inequality: Call for Socio-technical Privacy Management Approaches”,
– “Context-Sensitivity of [Informed] Consent: The Emergence of Genetic Data Markets”.
4. Michael Shea: Fishbowl discussion about Data as a Human Right

Michael Platzer: Fake Data - An Unexpected Ally in the Fight for Privacy
2019-06-19 15:00 - 16:30 UTC
Dr. Michael Platzer, founder & CEO of Mostly AI, will talk about the underestimated re-identification risk and the limitations of existing anonymization techniques in the big data era, as well as present latest research on Generative AI, and how it surprisingly enables GDPR-compliant big data sharing.

MyData Austria Meetup #5
2019-10-22 18:30 - 21:00 UTC
In this meetup we will shed light on the topic of data as a property: is it possible to own data, how can data or usage rights for that data be sold and what are the implications?
Agenda:
1. Christoph Fabianek: “Semantic Container for Data Mobility”
2. Soheil Human: “Human-centricity vs. End-user Empowerment: The Future of a Value-based Data Economy”
3. Robert Mitwicki: “Purpose based services”
4. Michael Shea: Fishbowl discussion about Data as a Human Right

Joint Workshop: New Challenges in Law and Technology
2019-10-23 15:15 - 17:15 UTC
This joint workshop on New Challenges in Law and Technology between the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Wien.
The workshop will take place on 23 October 2019 from 15:15 to 17:15 at Schenkenstraße 4, 1010 Wien. The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas between both research groups and discuss potential future research projects.

Paul Eberstaller, RIS+
Antoni Napieralski, Smart Borders and Data Protection
Felix Zopf, GDPR as an instrument of market harmonization
Treatment Implications of a Techno-Social Governance Phenomenon
Soheil Human, Human-centricity, GDPR, and the Future of Digital Consenting
Paola Lopez, Predictive Models and Automated Decision-Making: Equal
Ben Wagner, Situating space: Automation and Bias in digital mapping interfaces

All titles are working titles and subject to change.
Please send a brief note to Ben Wagner <ben.wagner@wu.ac.at> if you want to attend the workshop.

David Garcia: Online privacy as a complex phenomenon
2019-10-30 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
Preserving individual control over private information is one of the rising concerns in our digital society. Online social networks exist in application ecosystems that allow them to access data from other services, for example gathering contact lists through mobile phone applications. Such data access might allow social networking sites to create shadow profiles with information about non-users that has been inferred from information shared by the users of the social network. I will present our work on testing this privacy risk for sexual orientation, marital status, and location inference in Twitter and Friendster, a disappeared social network. Our findings illustrate that individuals are not in full control of their online privacy and that sharing personal data with a social networking site is a complex decision that is collectively mediated by the decisions of others.

BUCH WIEN – Lange Nacht der Bücher
2019-11-06 21:00 - 22:30 UTC
ARBEITSTITEL: „Wie die Digitalisierung unsere Welt verändern“
Im Rahmen der BUCH WIEN – Lange Nacht der Bücher
Mittwoch, 6. November 2019, 21 Uhr – ca. 22.30 Uhr, Mastercard-Bühne, Messe Wien, Halle D

DISKUTIERENDE:
– Ingrid Brodnig, Publizistin
– Konrad Paul Liessmann, Philosoph
– Christian Rau, Mastercard Österreich
– Sarah Spiekermann, Wirtschaftsinformatikerin
MODERATORIN: Lou Lorenz-Dittlbacher

Nataliia Bielova: Detecting third-party tracking and GDPR violations in Web applications
2019-11-07 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
Third-party Web tracking has been extensively studied over the last decade. In our work, we focus on two problems that address third-party tracking in Web applications and GDPR impact on trackers.

First, we study detection of third-party tracking. Most of previous studies and user tools rely on filter lists. However, there has always been a suspicion that lists miss many trackers. In this paper, we propose an alternative method to detect trackers inspired by analyzing behavior of invisible pixels. By crawling 84,658 webpages from 8,744 domains, we detect that third-party invisible pixels are widely deployed: they are present on more than 94.51% of domains and constitute 35.66% of all third-party images. We propose a fine-grained behavioral classification of tracking based on the analysis of invisible pixels. We use this classification to detect new categories of tracking and uncover new collaborations between domains on the dataset of 4,2M third-party requests. We demonstrate that two popular methods to detect tracking, based on EasyList&EasyPrivacy and on Disconnect lists respectively miss 25.22% and 30.34% of the trackers that we detect. Moreover, we find that if we combine all three lists, 379,245 requests originated from 8,744 domains still track users on 68.70% of websites.

Second, we analyse GDPR impact on third-party trackers. GDPR defines rights for data subjects (users) and obligations for data controllers (trackers) but it is unclear how subjects and controllers interact concretely. We investigate whether it is safe for a data subject to exercise the right of access of her own data by analysing how subject access request procedures are implemented in third-party tracking services. We observe that some trackers use unsafe or doubtful procedures to authenticate data subjects: the most common flaw is the use of authentication based on a copy of the subject’s national identity card transmitted over an insecure channel.

Elena Simperl: Qrowd and the city: Designing people-centric smart cities
2019-11-19 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Paris)
Smart cities are as much about the needs, expectations and values of the people they serve as they are about the underlying technology. In this talk, I am going to present several areas of system design where human and social factors play a critical role, from fostering participation to augmented intelligence and responsible innovation. I will present ongoing challenges, solutions and opportunities, drawing from recent studies in Qrowd, a Horizon 2020 programme proposing a humane AI approach for transport and mobility.

About the speaker:
Elena Simperl is a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton in the UK. She works in the department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)
in the Web and Internet Science (WAIS) lab. She is also one of the Directors of the Web Science Institute and a Turing Fellow.
More details: http://elenasimperl.eu/

Christoph Fabianek: Semantic Container for Data Mobility
2019-11-20 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
An enormous wealth of data is being created in our increasingly digitized life and economies, but the majority of this data is either being monopolized or shared for questionable purposes rather than facilitating innovation. One of the main issues that inhibits data reuse and the emergence of vibrant data markets is the lack of standard mechanisms for the execution of controlled transactions between data providers and consumers, including efficient provisioning of data and associated services. Consequently, many potential data providers find it difficult to turn data into viable business models. At the same time, data consumers face challenges accessing heterogeneous data provided via various mechanisms and have limited means to trace data provenance and ensure data quality. Semantic Containers aim to tackle both issues by facilitating controlled transactions through an integrated set of methods and capabilities. Specifically, they package data, semantic descriptions, and processing capabilities into executable and shareable containers.

Leading the World? Artificial Intelligence in China
2019-11-22 09:30 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris)
This workshop is jointly organised by the the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna, the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Complexity Science Hub.
Academic Workshop from 09:30 to 17:00
at the Hofburg, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Preliminary Agenda

09:30 – 09:45: Introduction and Overview of Research Workshop
– Dr. Ben Wagner, WU Wien & Prof. Christian Göbel, Uni Wien
09:45 – 10:00: Discussion
10:00 – 10:30 Keynote: Local and Global Perspectives on AI in China
– Prof. Kave Salamatian, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Savoie, France
10:30 – 11:00: Discussion
11:00 – 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00: Research Potential of Chinese AI Companies
– Amelie Drexler, UniWien
12:00 – 12:30: Discussion
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 14:00: Investment in AI in China
– Shuyin Zheng, UniWien
14:00 – 14:30: University Teaching on AI in China
Amelie Drexler & Xiran Dong, UniWien
14:30 – 15:00: Discussion
15:00 – 15:30: Narratives around AI in China
– Xiran Dong, UniWien
15:30 – 16:00: Public Services and AI in Big Data
– Prof. Christian Göbel, Uni Wien
16:00 – 16:30: Discussion
16:30 – 16:45: Closing Remarks
– Dr. Ben Wagner, WU Wien & Prof. Christian Göbel, Uni Wien
16:45 – 17:00: Discussion
Pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend this workshop, please contact Ben Wagner <ben.wagner@wu.ac.at> and let us know why you want to participate.

Krzysztof Paruch: Economic Systems Engineering
2019-12-04 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
Economic Systems Engineering is a new discipline of study related to the emerging field of Cryptoeconomics. Facilitated by the advent of the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) it became possible to create digital economies on top of a trustworthy digital infrastructure that is jointly operated by network participants by the use of rights managed by cryptographic tokens. In contrast to today’s web2 and its platform-economies, in the web3 enabled token-economies of the future data is no longer stored and managed by centralized entities. Decentralization in every component of its architecture (technology, control and governance) is a key aspect of these economies and is enabled by the combination of cryptography and tokens. Research in the field of Cryptoeconomics addresses questions about the proper design, maintenance and governance of decentralized economies built on top of a blockchain infrastructure. It also aims to propose a definition of appropriate methodology equipping system architects with a toolkit necessary to enable the design, analysis and valuation of decentralized economies.

Lab Annual Meeting
2019-12-11 16:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris)

Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup#2: CogSci & Environmental Issues
2019-12-12 18:00 - 21:00 (Europe/Paris)
We are delighted to invite you to the Vienna Cognitive Science Meetup #2, which will be hosted by the Cognitive Science Hub of the University of Vienna and is co-organised by the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab.

As we talked about it in our first meetup, we aim to organise a series of interdisciplinary meetups to discuss how cognitive science can contribute in tackling our ongoing societal and environmental challenges. In our second meetup, we will focus on “CogSci & Environmental Issues“.

Time: Thursday December 12, 2019 at 18:15
Location: Hörsaal G (Faculty of Psychology), University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Agenda:
– Introduction
– A series of short talks on CogSci and Environmental Issues
– Fishbowl session
– Socialising and networking

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday!

Kris Ruijgrok: The politics behind India's internet shutdowns
2020-01-08 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
India is the world’s largest democracy, but also holds the dubious record of having the highest number of internet shutdowns worldwide. Concerningly moreover, the frequency of shutdowns in India is only increasing. According to the Software Freedom and Law Center (SFLC.in), an Indian NGO defending digital rights, the number of shutdowns rose from 6 in 2014 to 14 in 2015, 31 in 2016, 79 in 2017, to 134 (!) internet shutdowns in 2018. When a shutdown in India takes place, it is usually justified by government officials either as a measure to prevent social unrest and ethnic clashes or to restore law and order. Critics by contrast, point towards the huge societal, economic and psychological repercussions of a shutdown, and furthermore claim that it is an authoritarian practice that limits the free flow of information and silences dissent. My project aims to understand what explains the staggering number of Indian internet shutdowns. Despite increasing efforts to measure and document network disruptions from a technical point of view, in India and beyond, we still have very limited knowledge about the social and political circumstances that lead to an internet shutdown.

CANCELLED: Talk with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled
2020-01-15 15:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
Talk today with Jan-Henrik Passoth cancelled

Sabrina Kirrane: SPECIAL project achievements and directions for future research
2020-01-22 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) calls
for technical and organizational measures to support its implementation. Towards this end, the SPECIAL H2020 project (https://www.specialprivacy.eu/) aims to provide a set of tools that can be used by data controllers and processors to automatically check if personal data processing and sharing complies with the obligations set forth in the GDPR. In this talk we will provide a high-level overview of the SPECIAL project achievements, present challenges encountered along the way, and highlight some interesting directions for future work.

Lab Annual Meeting 2020
2020-03-09 13:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)
As there are many changes happening in the Lab, we’ve decided to the annual meeting a little earlier this year to make sure all of the members are informed about what is going and are able to shape the future of the lab.

The next Lab annual meeting will take place Monday 9 March 2020 at 13:00 at WU Wien, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien in room D2.2.094.

The Austrian Roadmap for Personal Data in Digital Economy | MyDataAustriaMeetup#6
2020-03-10 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris)
Since last year, MyData Austria has been developing a “Human-centric Roadmap for Digital Economy” in collaboration with the Sustainable Computing Lab, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and OwnYourData. This “European/Austrian Perspective” on “Personal Data on the Internet” has been constructed as part of our FFG/BMVIT funded project EXPEDiTE (expedite-project.eu). The roadmap is based on extensive literature reviews, expert interviews, focus group studies, and surveys. Before finalising the roadmap, we’d like to have your feedback and input in this meetup.
Agenda:
* Soheil Human, the lead author of the roadmap (who was supported by an interdisciplinary team of co-authors and collaborators from different Austrian institutions) presents the main aspects of the roadmap.
* We then will get your feedback on the roadmap and discuss how it can better contribute to the co-production of our future sustainable digital economies.
* We’d also like to discuss the next step to be taken by MyData Austria.
Link: https://www.meetup.com/MyData-Austria/events/268165744/
Time: Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: WU Executive Academy (Welthandelspl. 1, 1020 Wien) room EA.6.026
see: https://campus.wu.ac.at/?campus=1&q=EA.6.026

Note: There will be another core-team meeting before the meetup (from 4-6pm at WU Wien).

CANCELLED: Florian Saurwein & Charlotte Spencer-Smith: Automated trouble: The role of algorithmic selection in the emergence of harms on social media
2020-03-11 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
Algorithms have taken a central role in the automation of an increasing range of tasks in economy and society and their workings are keenly felt in everyday life on social media platforms. Algorithms filter and rank content on feeds and in search results, enforce content moderation rules, advertising policies and community standards, and enable personalized and targeted advertising. However, they also play a role in promoting a range of online harms to the individual, society and democracy, including the amplification of disinformation and hate speech, the development of filter bubbles, lack of transparency in online political microtargeting, and restrictions on free speech through automated deletion of posts by content moderation algorithms.
In this talk, Florian Saurwein and Charlotte Spencer-Smith explore the link between algorithms and harms on major social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. They examine how algorithmic selection contributes to harms within social media environments and develop a taxonomy of algorithmic risk. Subsequently, they identify measures of self-regulation taken by social media platforms to manage these risks, to see which tools are available for combating problems, and for which kinds of risks they are used. Results of the combined risk—regulation analysis allow for reflections on the governance implications of the different roles that algorithms play in risks on social media. While algorithmic errors may be fixed by social media companies themselves, the risks of growing power asymmetries call for external control and regulation. The results also point to implications for accountability, in particular that future governance arrangements should recognise algorithmic risk as emerging from the interplay of multiple actors who may be called to account.
The talk is based on results of the research project “The automation of the social: Algorithmic selection on social online networks” which is funded by the Vienna Anniversary Fund for the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Bios
Florian Saurwein is Senior Scientist at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt, were he established the research area “Triple A: Automation, Algorithms & Accountability” that explores the social implications of the growing influence of algorithms.
Charlotte Spencer-Smith is a Prae Doc at the Center for Information and Communication Technologies & Society in Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Previously, she worked as a Project Assistant in the research area “Triple A: Automation, Algorithms & Accountability” at the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies (CMC) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Klagenfurt.

CANCELLED: Richard Novak: Awareness of Big Data Issues
2020-03-18 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
Big Data is a relatively new term that has so far not been viewed through the lens of applied ethics.
My focus in this paper is on the awareness of the conflicts arising between Big Data phenomenon and its issues and the relevant ethical principles.
Firstly, I start with the research of other authors and an overview of ethics and the Digital Divide that are generally accepted. Secondly, I continue with the description of data sources and Big Data use cases from the telecommunication industry, demonstrating what is currently feasible, that I will generalize and, furthermore, suggest a comprehensive list of twelve Big Data issues such as Privacy Intrusion, New Barriers, Business Advantage, Power of All data, New Big Brother effect, Missing Transparency, Confusion, Social Pressure, Belief in Legislation, End of Theory, Data Religion and Unawareness of our Data. Thirdly, I describe the existing regulatory framework of the Big Data area with some suggestions for improvement and I also verify the awareness of the suggested twelve Big Data issues by launching an international survey. Finally, I discuss and conclude the paper results.
The survey (N=733) of university students, IT professionals and seniors from EU countries, mainly Czechia and Slovakia concluded that Big Data issues are grouped into three different and consistent clusters: hot, cold and warm (suggested by the Ward method that uses the Euclid distance between the mean and standard deviation).
I found, using MANOVA Pillai’s statistical test, that clusters are significantly dependent on demography (IT Skills, Occupation and Sex). Warm clusters show interesting dependencies on the demographic category, such as the social pressure perceived important by pensioners and women compared to the underestimated importance reported by men and IT Professionals. The conclusion of the paper is that the awareness of Big Data issues can be grouped into three consistent clusters that depend on a few demographic variables. I also conclude that there is a need for regulation frameworks to move past Data Ethic by Default (Law) to a priori Data Ethics by Design approach.
Keywords: awareness, big data issues, cluster analysis, data ethics by design, demography, digital divide, manova

CANCELLED: Joint Workshop: New Challenges in Law and Technology
2020-03-25 15:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris)
This joint workshop on New Challenges in Law and Technology between the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna and the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at WU Wien.
The workshop will take place on 25 March 2020 from 15:00 to 17:30 at WU. The purpose of the workshop is to exchange ideas between both research groups and discuss potential future research projects.
Presentation topics tbc

CANCELLED: Miriam Kullmann: Data-driven discrimination in the world of work
2020-04-15 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)

Jan-Hendrik Passoth: Recoding Public Value. Infrastructure, Platforms and Digital Sovereignty in and for Europe
2020-06-03 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Paris)
tba

DIGITALER WORKSHOP TECHNIKWISSENSCHAFTEN
2020-06-18 15:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Paris)
Krisentechnologien und Kooperationstechnik
Perspektiven auf die Rolle menschenzentrierter Technik
bei der Krisenbewältigung

Wann: Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2020, 15-17.30 Uhr • via Zoom

„So viel Wissen über unser Nichtwissen und über den Zwang, unter Unsicherheit handeln und leben zu müssen, gab es noch nie“, sagte Jürgen Habermas Anfang April der Frankfurter Rundschau. Wie können die Unwägbarkeiten des Zwangs des Unsicherheitshandelns und -regulierens technisch abgefedert werden? Welche Rolle spielt Technologie-Pooling? Was sind die soziokulturellen Konditionalitäten des Einsatzes menschenzentrierter Technologie? Gibt es ein innovationsgetriebenes Pandemierecht, das eine kooperationsorientierte, Open Access-gestützte Corona-Wissenschaftsrevolution befördert? Wie hat die Technologie beigetragen zur Bewältigung der Krise?

Das Junges Forum: Technikwissenschaften (JF:TEC) als interdisziplinäres Netzwerk von Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen hat sich seit seiner Gründung die Aufgabe gegeben, Lösungsansätze für die Herausforderungen gegenwärtiger und zukünftiger Technikentwicklung und -gestaltung zu erarbeiten. Die Zeithorizonte schrumpfen in der Krise und dennoch nehmen sich Mitglieder des JF:TEC die Zeit, in einem interdisziplinären Blick eine Bilanz zu ziehen über die ersten Monate der Technikentwicklung im Lichte von Corona. Innovationen müssen der Verbesserung der Lage von Menschen dienen; in Krisen werden die Konturen einer engagierten Technikwissenschaft klar, die Impulse für einen nötigen Dialog über die Interaktion zwischen Technik, Mensch, Gesellschaft und Umwelt gibt. Das Ziel von JF:TEC ist es, zu einer Technik beizutragen, welche die Menschen wirklich wollen. In Zeiten von Corona muss dies ergänzt werden: insbesondere eine Technik und Technologien sind zu erforschen und zu fördern, welche die Menschen wirklich brauchen.

Programm
15:00 Eröffnung: Tobias Redlich (Hamburg), JF:TEC
15:10 Gesellschaftliche Konditionalitäten
Moderation: Sissy-Ve Basmer-Birkenfeld (Hamburg)
Leonie Sieger (Bottrop): Soziotechnische Herausforderungen in der Krisenbewältigung
Katharina Mosene (Hamburg/Berlin): Diskriminierungstechnologien und Emanzipationsperspektiven
15:40 Krisenbewältigungsrecht
Moderation: Elke Greifeneder (Berlin)
Matthias C. Kettemann (Hamburg/Jena): Internetzugang als Daseinsvorsorge? Staatliche Pflichten zur Sicherung gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe vor und nach Corona
Christoph Sorge (Saarbrücken): Datenschutz in Zeiten von Corona
16:10-16:25 Virtuelle Kaffeepause mit Breakout Sessions
16:25 Kooperationstechnologien
Moderation: Walid Maalej (Hamburg)
Manuel Moritz (Hamburg): Open Source Hardware und verteilte Produktion in Zeiten von Corona
Paula Bräuer und Athanasios Mazarakis (Kiel): Open Access und Anreizsysteme
Thomas Niendorf und Alexander Liehr (Kassel): 3D-Druck als Antwort auf die Krise
17:05 Gemeinsame Schlussdiskussion:
Mit menschenzentrierter Technologie in die Postpandemie
Moderation: Tobias Redlich (Hamburg), JF:TEC
17:30 Schluss

Diskutieren Sie mit uns, welche technischen Entwicklungen nötig sind, welche gesellschaftlichen Probleme wir lösen müssen und welche rechtlichen Schritte zu setzen sind, damit, so die UNO-Generalversammlung in ihrer Corona-Resolution von Anfang April 2020, „die beispiellose Krise, die durch die COVID-19-Pandemie verursacht wurde, durch Leadership und nachhaltige globale Zusammenarbeit und Solidarität gemildert und erfolgreich rückgängig gemacht werden kann“.
Anmeldung: Bitte melden Sie sich unter info@JFTEC.de an. Wir versenden den Link für die Veranstaltung und Hinweise zur Beteiligung über Social Media einige Tage davor.
Organisation: Matthias C. Kettemann für das Junge Forum: Technikwissenschaften (JF:TEC), Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
Kooperationspartner: Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung | Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg • Alexander von Humboldt-Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin • Sustainable Computing Lab, WU Wien • Vertretungslehrstuhl für Internationales Recht, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena • Forschungszentrum “Normative Ordnungen”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main • ZBW Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel • Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel • IBI Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Das Internet – eine #Hassmaschine?
2020-09-17 12:00 - 13:30 (Europe/Paris)
Speaker: Hakan Tanriverdi (Bayrischer Rundfunk)
Registration: internetrecht@jur.uni-frankfurt.de
More information: normativeorders.net/internetforschung

The GDPR: Lessons from Two Years of Evaluation!
2020-10-14 17:30 - 18:30 (Europe/Paris)
