Together with Angelica Maineri, UCDS’ own Shuai Wang wrote an article on the ODISSEI website on FAIR Implementation profiles in the Social Sciences. A FAIR Implementation Profile (FIP) is a collection of resources, services, and technologies adopted by a community to implement the FAIR principles. In their article “FAIR yes, Read more…
Last week, the renowned French philosopher, sociologist, and anthropologist Bruno Latour passed away at age 75 (1947-2022). Latour is considered to be one of the most influential thinkers of modern-day science. His Actor-Network theory (ANT) and mediation theory are known to provide an alternative perspective to the famous subject-object dichotomy, Read more…
We are very proud to announce that this January, the Civic AI Lab [1] was awarded to be part of the UNESCO’s TOP 100 International List of Artificial Intelligence (henceforth: AI) solutions for sustainable development for the benefit of humanity [2]. The TOP 100 was created by the International Research Read more…
This blog post is written by Cristina-Iulia Bucur, and cross-posted at the IOS Press Labs website We currently disseminate, share, and evaluate scientific findings following paradigms of publishing where the only difference from the methods of more than 300 years ago is the medium in which we publish – we have Read more…
Automated decision-making affects governmental decision-making processes in terms of accountability, explainability, and democratic power. For instance, deciding on acceptable error rates reflects important value judgments that can have far-reaching ethical impacts for citizens. Error analysis is an important determinant for the design and deployment choices in algorithms. Public authorities, therefore, Read more…