Podcasts by Exploring Digital Spheres
Join us on a journey into the realms of our digital society: In the new season of Exploring Digital Spheres our SET-project research team travels to five different countries on three continents in order to explore the intersection of sustainability and digitalisation and talk to local experts about their endeavours.
In the first season of the podcast you got to know HIIG researchers and their diverse research backgrounds. We asked them how our digital society works and what its future might look like. Every other episode, the researchers entered into a dialogue with other digital mavericks!
Further podcasts by Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG)
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S02 E05: Exploring Mexico’s sustainable entrepreneurs fight for climate change from 2023-05-17T08:11:57
In the last episode of Season 2 we visit Mexico City to explore the potentials and challenges of sustainable digital entrepreneurship to mitigate climate change.
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S02 E04: Exploring Indonesia's digital solution for rainforest protection from 2023-05-04T09:00
How can digital skills and technologies be trained and implemented in remote regions where the rainforest is of particular importance for local development?
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S02 E03: Exploring Kenya's gig work opportunities from 2023-04-27T09:00
Digital platforms are fundamentally changing the world of work. While the platform economy opens immense opportunities for flexible, gainful and convenient entrepreneurship, the precarious liveliho...
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S02 E02: Exploring Kosovo's sustainable spatial developments from 2023-04-24T08:48:30
In this episode we shine a light on the transformation of a former military camp into the Innovation and Training Park (ITP) Prizren in Kosovo, an aspiring hub for innovation, economic development ...
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S02 E01: Exploring Benin's rising digital economy from 2023-04-04T08:40:19
At the SENIA, Benin’s first AI conference, our team had the opportunity to talk to local experts about the possibilities of digitalisation for the improvement of the agricultural sector and its wor...
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"CoRisk Index" from 2020-06-02T15:19:26
In a collaborative project researchers from Oxford and Berlin developed an index as the first economic indicator of industry-specific risk assessments related to Covid-19, based on financial disclo...
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Digital Momentum from 2020-03-09T14:34:01
How do you build Digital Momentum? How do you stay visible? As the music industry is changing, big music labels are reinventing their branding strategy. This podcast explores the resulting conseque...
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AI technology for healthcare from 2020-02-06T12:18:12
HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss is talking to Julia Hoxha about the collection and monitoring of medical data. Julia Hoxha is a former postdoctoral research scientist in Medical Informatics at Col...
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Human rights online from 2019-12-10T09:47:45
Wolfgang Schulz studied law and mathematics and is now an expert on media law and algorithmic decision taking. He is the director of the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the H...
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Automised paper work from 2019-11-26T13:31:41
HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss interviews Uli Erxleben (Hypatos) on how exactly the startup uses deep learning automation technology for document processing and how this frees up some of our time...
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Digital civil disobedience from 2019-11-12T15:54:15
What do Edward Snowden, Aaron Swartz and Phil Zimmermann have in common? This episode is all about whistleblowers, activists and other people deliberately breaking the law for a specific ideologica...
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Autonomous weapons from 2019-10-29T09:00
Suppose they gave war and nobody has to come. The idea of autonomous weapons is tempting for some and troubling for most, because it raises many ethical issues. Yet, what exactly do we mean when sa...
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Organised stupidity from 2019-10-14T13:00
Are universities the best option we have? In this episode, Benedikt Fecher and Wouter talk about this question to discuss what research actually is and how we create knowledge in our society toda...
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Welches Problem löst eigentlich Digitalisierung? from 2019-10-02T10:13:13
In dieser Folge geht es um die großen Fragen unserer Zeit: die Komplexität in der modernen Gesellschaft, wie Facebook Facebook geworden ist und ob es überhaupt vorstellbare Alternativen zur Digital...
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Governing the internet from 2019-09-17T08:15:48
HIIG researcher Christian Katzenbach speaks about the responsibility of platforms and the content that they host, regulative mechanisms as well as the widely discussed EU directive on copyright bet...
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Holding internet companies accountable from 2019-09-03T11:36:08
By ranking the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet. Nathalie M...
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For the good of the internet from 2019-07-02T08:51:31
The internet is currently built of more than 60.000 autonomous systems. Without connectivity among those, the internet simply doesn't exist. Associated HIIG researcher Uta Meier-Hahn looks in her r...
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(K)I verstehen? from 2019-06-04T13:35:33
Ein automatischer Staubsauger überfährt eine Katze. Ist der Hersteller oder der Besitzer Schuld? Luhmann-Schüler und Systemtheoretiker Dirk Baecker meint: Vielleicht einfach die Katze? Mit Thomas C...
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GDPR revisited from 2019-05-21T09:00:14
This week its the General Data Protection Regulation's (GDPR) first anniversary. Wouter speaks with HIIG-researcher and data protection expert Max von Grafenstein on the difficulties of data protec...
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Advertising: Just statistics? from 2019-05-07T08:04:43
Online advertisement companies have been using statistical models for long. HIIG researcher Jessica Schmeiss interviews Marcel Pirlich (Adspert) on how exactly the startup uses AI technologies in o...
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African digital entrepreneurship from 2019-04-16T12:07:24
"Silicon Savannah", "Africa is rising" – much attention is directed at Africa as a continent of economic opportunity and growth. In this episode, HIIG researcher Nicolas Friederici stresses that re...
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Smart Citizens from 2019-03-26T07:00
"People think it’s inherent of the internet that you lose your privacy, but it’s not, it’s based on the business model of those companies.” – Marleen Stikker speaks about how the fairphone was inve...
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Demystifying AI from 2019-03-05T08:00
When did you hear of the last German Facebook, Uber or Amazon? Today’s episode is on the question why Germany tends to find it difficult to make the translation between researching AI and creating ...
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Ich, einfach außerordentlich from 2019-02-19T15:26:36
Wie kann dein Selfie noch origineller sein? Der Versuch, immer und überall authentisch und unverwechselbar zu sein, ist keine Modeerscheinung. Das meint zumindest der Soziologe Andreas Reckwitz. Mi...
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Smart bureaucracy? from 2019-02-05T09:05:47
Christian Djeffal talks about how artificial intelligence can help public administrations cut costs and resources, and re-allocate them to be of better service to its citizens.
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Bad content, good content from 2019-01-22T13:45:32
Julia Krüger is deeply convinced that we need to create alternative moderation schemes to uphold liberal values. Together with HIIG-researcher Amélie Heldt, she discusses the different methods of m...
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Squeaky-clean internet from 2019-01-08T11:46:44
Wouter met Martin Riedl in the middle of Berlin to discuss how platforms keep the internet "clean" from undesirable content – but what is undesirable? And what does it mean for moderators when they...
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Are we colonised by data? from 2018-12-18T08:00
Nick Couldry has recently coined the term 'data colonialism' in order to highlight continuities from colonialism’s historic appropriation of resources to today's datafication of everyday life. He v...
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Rithm of algo from 2018-12-04T05:00
In this episode, Wouter dives deeper into the universe of algorithms in order to clean up the mess of buzz words we are confronted with on a daily basis. Did you also wonder why certain videos pop ...
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Fake news and elections from 2018-11-20T07:00
Amélie Heldt speaks with Clara Iglesias Keller about the regulation of fake news in times of election campaigns. Both have been analysing recent examples such as new preliminary injunction procedur...
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Filtered away from 2018-11-06T07:00
A conversation with Rike Maier on the use and mis-use of remixes on the internet. How does one regulate the immeasurable amount of material uploaded every minute and do filters do a good job of kee...
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Trailer: Exploring digital spheres from 2018-11-02T12:27:41
We find ourselves surrounded by buzzwords like Big Data, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence and it becomes ever more difficult to understand the world that we are currently building. This is Ex...
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