NEWS FROM THE INSTITUTE
Press release: Open journal Internet Policy Review rolls out new partnership and launches new platform
The Internet Policy Review is one year old. The journal on internet regulation, whose publisher is the Alexander von Humboldt Institute on Internet and…
Spring issue of quarterly newsletter
In our quarterly newsletter we share the latest HIIG news. In the April edition you can find out more about our research, workshop results,…
HIIG @ Berlin Web Week
The Web Week in Berlin just took off and HIIG researchers will contribute in several sessions of the re:publica. Jeanette Hofmann will give a…
Open Journal Club with Anupam Chander
“Breaking the Web”. At our Open Journal Club, 5 May 2014 – 5pm, Anupam Chander, Director of the California International Law Center, presented his…
NET mundial and Network of Centers in Sao Paulo
From 22 April on Jeanette Hofmann, Wolfgang Schulz, HIIG directors, and Mayte Peters are in Sao Paulo attending NETmundial and two events organized in…
Network of Centers – Open Discussion
Alongside the NETmundial in Sao Paulo the Rio Institute of Technology & Society and the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in cooperation with Network of…
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RESEARCH ISSUES IN FOCUS
Platform governance
Data governance
Artificial intelligence and society
Digitalisation and sustainability
Open higher education
Digital future of the workplace
Here you will find our experts on current press topics relating to the Internet and digitalisation.
Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence (AI). But what is all the hype? Find out with this card game.
Our new handbook provides guidance on the legally compliant and efficient use of data for administrations.
Digital by design, not by default: Resilience in higher education
What does resilience in higher education look like? A comparison of two models from Germany and Portugal shows: there is no single formula.
Algorithms under scrunity: AI observatories as democratic infrastructure
Algorithms have a profound impact on people’s lives. This article explores why AI observatories are essential for democratic governance.
Forget the “killing machine”: why AI is a question of responsibility, not apocalypse
The authors challenge the metaphor of artificial intelligence as a “killing machine” that will one day surpass its human creators.