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Platform governance
In our research on platform governance, we investigate how corporate goals and social values can be balanced on online platforms.
Data governance
We develop robust data governance frameworks and models to provide practical solutions for good data governance policies.
Artificial intelligence and society
The future of artificial Intelligence and society operates in diverse societal contexts. What can we learn from its political, social and cultural facets?
Digitalisation and sustainability
In terms of sustainability, digitalisation faces countless opportunities and challenges. We explore how technology is used responsibly.
Open higher education
We explore the use of open higher education & edtech to create, share and disseminate knowledge for all in our knowledge society.
Digital future of the workplace
How will AI and digitalisation change the future of the workplace? We assess their impact, and the opportunities and risks for the future of work.
When will the first AI top the New York Times bestseller list?
Language generators based on artificial intelligence are producing increasingly convincing texts. This led us to wonder: Could an AI guest-author an article in Encore? This AI-written text is the result of our experiment.
Virtual volunteering – How young people use digital technologies for the common good
Digitalisation is giving rise to new fields and forms of engagement. In the pandemic, solidarity practices gained relevance, organisations were challenged.
Myth: AI Models are abstract and do not need personal data
In supervised machine learning, models are based on abstractions from training data. The models themselves, while structurally influenced by the training data, do not contain the data themselves. It therefore…