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SUMMARY:Workshop on synthetic data for fairness and privacy
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to invite you to our 1-day workshop on synthetic data for fairness and privacy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, in collaboration with the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht Universiteit. The programme makes room to exchange ideas for translating research insights into operational interventions in design\, policy\, and practice. We have 3 thematic sessions with talks & interactive panels:\n \n\nEthical and Responsible Applications (9:30-11:00)\nDebiasing data & assessing fairness (11:30-13:00)\nSynthetic data in contexts: Focus on healthcare (14:00-15:30)\n\n\n \nOur first plenary includes Prof. Carlos Castillo at Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Dr. Paula Helm at Universiteit van Amsterdam\, and Vincent Campfens Chief Product Officer at BlueGen.AI. We have academics as well as professionals from industry and public institutions in our thematic sessions. Other confirmed speakers include:\n\nDr. Sean Benson\, Amsterdam Medical Center\nDr. Barteld Braaksma\, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek\nDr. Silvia de Conca\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\nDr. Flora Lysen\, Maastricht University\nDr. Manel Slokom\, CWI & AI\, Media and Democracy Lab (ICAI)\n\n\n \nLunch & drinks will be provided!\n\n\n \nRegistration\nOur capacity is limited\, so please register in advance: https://t.ly/hrXP1\n\n\n \nLocation\nRoom BV-1H26\nVU Amsterdam – De Boelelaan 1091 – BelleVue building (campus map)\n\n\n \nOrganisers\nDr. Emma Beauxis-Aussalet\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (e.m.a.l.beauxisaussalet@vu.nl)\nDr. Marianna Capasso\, Utrecht Universiteit (m.capasso@uu.nl)\nDr. Renate Baumgartner\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\nProf. Payal Arora\, Utrecht Universiteit.
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/workshop-on-synthetic-data-for-fairness-and-privacy/
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241013T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20241013T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121922
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SUMMARY:Workshop: AI in newsrooms: Beyond hype to practical solutions"
DESCRIPTION:“AI in newsrooms: Beyond hype to practical solutions” workshop\n– Monday\, 14th October\,\n– from 10:00-15:00\,\n– VU Amsterdam\, Room NU-5A27. \nThe morning session has talks from Tomás Dodds (journalism\, media technology)\, Laurens Vreekamp (journalist\, author of The Art of AI) and Theresa Josephine Seipp (AI governance) and Reshmi Pillai (on AI usecases in journalism).  \nIn the afternoon session\, journalists and researchers work in groups towards low-fi prototypes for chosen newsroom challenges. \nThis workshop is organized as part of the research visit of Dr. Constanza Gajardo Leon at the Department of Communication Science\, VU (facilitated by the Network Institute\, VU).  \nSpots are still open for the workshop\, please register at https://forms.gle/kttVcEpuaW2YK1Vk9.
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/workshop-ai-in-newsrooms/
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20240301T090000
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SUMMARY:The 3rd Workshop on the Digital Society Including an NI Community Meet-up
DESCRIPTION:The third instalment of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS) will take place at the VU on March 1st 2024. The theme is Inclusive Technologies. A call for participation will be published soon. IWDS’24 will be followed by a light-hearted community meet-up open to all NI members. \n\nWhen: 1st March 2024\, for now 9-5pm\nWhere: TBA\n\nCheck out the first and second (also here) instalments to get a feel for the content \nSome keywords which prompted participants’ attendance to the last IWDS \nIWDS’24 (~09.00-15.30h):\nTech has come undone. Feeds and frontpages increasingly problematize artificial intelligence biases\, Web 3 fraud\, platform monopolies and inequality\, or all-male\, all-white\, all-young images of entrepreneurship. It is time to ask how technologies can be shaped more inclusively to co-create tools that help us address global social injustice\, ecological destruction\, and the much-needed (re)organization of transnational political economy. To study how digital technologies and societal problems interact\, we want to support researchers who take on interdisciplinary approaches. \nCommunity meet-up (~15:30-17.00h):\nFollowing the IWDS event\, the Network Institute invites you to join the Interdisciplinary Bingo\, an engaging community event centered on the theme of Inclusion and the Digital Society. Save the date for an afternoon full of insightful and fun-themed bingo cards\, meeting your colleagues casually with some drinks\, and also: competition\, because who will win the best bingo prizes? \nMore info soon here (upcoming)\, for now just save the date! \nThanks to Mike Ligthart for putting this together
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/the-3rd-workshop-on-the-digital-society-including-an-ni-community-meet-up/
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:IWDS 2023 - The 2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society
DESCRIPTION:Digital technology – from social robotics to smart mobile devices\, from global social media networks to fluent natural language processing tools\, from realistic virtual environments to knowledgeable virtual agents – is rapidly changing\, and society is changing with it. At the same time\, new societal problems arise such as global social justice\, climate change\, human mobility and sustainability\, or transnational (re)organization of politics and economy which technological solutions cannot yet address. To study how digital technologies and societal problems interact\, we want to support researchers who take on interdisciplinary approaches. \nDo you have a research idea that is both interdisciplinary and linked to the digital society? Would you like to get to know your peers\,  learn from your complementary interests\, and discuss potential collaborations? Then this event may be for you! \nFor more new\, submission details\, etc\, please click here!
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/iwds-2023-the-2nd-interdisciplinary-workshop-on-the-digital-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180703T150000
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SUMMARY:Network Institute End of the Year Event
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the traditional Network Institute end-of-the-academic-year event: \n*** Tuesday July 3rd\, 15.00 hrs\, Tuinzaal (W&N) ***  \nLike every year\, we have an interesting program for you: \n\nTijs van den Broek (Organization science; short bio see below) will present his research on collective action via online communities: Community and Coordination: A Multi-level Analysis of Social Movement Team Diversity and Fundraising Effectiveness\nThis year’s Academy Assistants will pitch their projects with a poster\, accompanied by drinks and bites\nThe winners of next year’s NI Academy Assistant funding will be announced\n\nIn addition\, we will use the event to run a live pilot of a radically democratic form of grassroot funding.\nAs you may know\, funding organizations such as NWO increasingly acknowledge (e.g.\, here) that concentrating large grants with few high-profile researchers has made it excessively hard for the majority of researchers to acquire (seed) funding to pursue new ideas or collaborations. Forms of grassroot funding may be a start of a solution for this problem.\nOur own grassroot funding pilot will work as follows: \n\neach attending NI member will receive\, upon arrival\, a 100€ research voucher\nthe voucher can be exchanged for actual funding only if bundled with other attendants’ vouchers.\n\nE.g.\, two researchers could bundle vouchers to buy a 200€ software license\, five researchers could bundle to pay for +/- 500€ online study participants\, or ten researchers could bundle to jointly organize a 1000€ workshop.\n\n\nbundles require involvement of members from at least two faculties\nthere will be an opportunity for ultrashort (30 sec) public pitches of research ideas during the event\nbundling decisions are taken during the event (before 17.30 hrs)\n\nOff course we expect this pilot to result in a lively exchange of ideas during the meeting; it will be highly interesting to see how the available funding is going to be distributed\, and whether this results in new research collaborations. \nWe hope to see you all there! \nBest\, Ivar Vermeulen \nalso on behalf of Marco Otte\, Christine Moser\, Victor de Boer\, Antske Fokkens\, Michel Klein\, Mojca Lovrencak\, Melanie Jong Tjien Fa\, Frank van Harmelen\, and Hans Akkermans \nShort bio Tijs van den Broek \nTijs van den Broek is an assistant professor at the Organization Sciences department of the VU Amsterdam. His research focuses on the mechanisms\, boundary conditions and outcomes of large-scale digital collective action\, such as protests\, advocacy campaigns and social entrepreneurship. Tijs employs an engaged scholarship\, interdisciplinary and multimethod approach\, including methods such as (online) experiments\, database analysis\, text mining and social network analysis.
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/network-institute-end-of-the-year-event/
LOCATION:Tuinzaal W&N VU
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180621T130000
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SUMMARY:Organizations\, Artifacts and Practices (OAP) workshop
DESCRIPTION:OAP explores the relationships between organizations (and organizing)\, artifacts and practices. One of its aims is to identify and analyse new trends occurring in work practices which currently are becoming more and more digital\, distributed\, community-oriented\, open and collaborative – for instance through the use of open spaces\, co-working spaces\, digital technologies supporting networks and relationship building\, ‘fab labs’\, open campuses\, corporate/campus tours\, boss with no office\, Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD)\, working at home well-being\, etc. \nWe hare happy to share with you the program of next weeks OAP (Organizations\, Artifacts and Practices) workshops\, hosted by our faculty. OAP is a transdisciplinary international conference focusing on the interesections between materiality\, technology and organizing. This year’s overall theme concerns “New Ways of Working”. \nSince this is a free and open source event\, you are welcome to join workshops\, panel debates and keynotes if you like. We especially would like to draw your attention to the Thursday 21 June afternoon workshop on “New Ways of Working” in institutions of higher education\, and the subsequent panel debate. If you would like to have a look at the complete program and proceedings\, please ask Welmoed (w.kuipers@vu.nl) she will be happy to send you a copy. For further conference information and updates you can also follow the OAP facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/oapworkshop/ \nThe conference will be at the third floor (Agora rooms and 2A-00) of the main building (in front of the Organization Sciences department)\nWe will be happy to see you around. \nSytze\, François\, Bernadette\, Nathalie and Issy\, co-chairs of OAP 2018 \n#OAP2018 \nhttp://workshopoap.dauphine.fr/
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/organizations-artifacts-and-practices-oap-workshop/
LOCATION:VU Agora 2
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180527
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SUMMARY:10th ACM Conference on Web Science
DESCRIPTION:The Network Institute hosts the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science\, 27-30 May 2018. It is a wonderful opportunity and a great pleasure for the Network Institute to be able host the 10th ACM conference on Web Science\, WebSci’18\, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam this year. \nWeb Science is a unique conference where a multitude of disciplines converge in a creative and critical dialogue with the aim of understanding the Web and its impacts. Web Science participants are from diverse fields including (but not limited to) art\, anthropology\, computer and information sciences\, communication\, economics\, humanities\, informatics\, law\, linguistics\, philosophy\, political science\, psychology\, and sociology. The conference particularly welcomes contributions that seek to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries\, that describe original research\, analysis\, and practice in the field of Web Science\, and that discusses novel and thought-provoking ideas. \nWebSci’18 is chaired by former network Institute director Hans Akkermans. Keynote speakers will be\, amongst others\, Sir Tim Berners-Lee\, the inventor of the World Wide Web\, and recipient of the 2016 Turing award\, and José van Dijck\, president of the KNAW.
URL:https://networkinstitute.org/event/10th-acm-conference-on-web-science/
LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam\, Noord-Holland\, 1081 HV\, Netherlands
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