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I’m thrilled to announce the upcoming 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, organized by𝑨𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒛𝒌𝒂 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒛𝒊𝒘𝒐𝒏 and 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 as part of the Antwerp Winter University. This unique program offers an in-depth journey into developing and writing research on Open Innovation topics. Taking place from 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 10-14, 2025, at the 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐩, the colloquium provides 5 𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒 and will bring together a select group of PhD students and junior faculty for an immersive academic experience. With a limited 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐨𝐟 40, I encourage you to reserve your spot and register as soon as possible! For more details and to secure your place, visit the following link: Researching Open Innovation - https://lnkd.in/eMwAgwB6 . Don’t miss this opportunity to deepen your expertise in Open Innovation! hashtag #OpenInnovation hashtag #DoctoralColloquium hashtag #ECTS hashtag #UniversityOfAntwerp hashtag #Antwerp hashtag #Innovation hashtag #innovationEcosystem

I highlighted 5 common misconceptions in the discourse on disinformation: • 𝗢𝗯𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of disinformation: I understand the attempts to define the term. But there is no universally accepted definition of it and in fact, we don't need the legal definition to begin with. Truth/lie isn't a legal concept anyhow. Instead, we should focus on whether specific expressions containing disinfo can justifiably be limited. • 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀: There's a belief that all forms of disinformation must be restricted. However, international law doesn't allow to restrict mere lies. The lie must infringe upon specific "legitimate aims", explicitly enumerated in the treaties. Not all disinformation warrants restrictions. Many instances are protected speech! • 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆𝘁𝗵: A common narrative suggests that disinformation causes polarisation. In reality, disinformation is a symptom, not necessarily the cause of the problem. It's often economic and social deprivation and inequality which leads to a breakdown of social trust and polarisation. This is then exploited by populist politicians who use the frustration of parts of the population to manipulate their view of reality for political gain. • 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗺𝘆𝘁𝗵: Many argue we need new laws to combat disinfo. However, existing laws typically provide mechanisms to address many issues related to disinformation without any need for new prohibitions. I agree, however, that we need to address key problems related to digital platforms that restrict diversity and pluralism online. Due to their profit-driven business models, they limit our exposure only to sensational content that often appeals to basic instincts. We also need to address the dominance of a few major social media platforms for addressing disinformation. • 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝘆𝘁𝗵: There's a tendency to address disinformation through criminal law which can be counterproductive. This approach may elevate offenders (especially professional disinformers) to martyr status and fail to address the root causes of the problem effectively. Do not get me wrong, disinformation, especially on social media can cause harm. But discussions on this issue often distract from more significant threats to freedom of speech: the possibility of state-controlled information space and dominant digital platforms' opaque content curation practices. This is what we must be mindful of. #disinformation #problems #freespeech #humanrights

Call for papers 📢 Are you working on the digital innovation and justice sector reform? Are you interested in people centered justice and human centered design? Please consider contributing to a special issue with World Comparative Law that I will co-edit with Anna Pivaty 🟥, Pietro Ortolani 🟥 & Marijke ter Voert This collection aims to examine the (hidden) assumptions behind, and the practical implementation of the ‘human-centred’ or ‘people-centred’ approaches in the context of digital innovations in judicial systems. This includes in the framing of digital policy, the implementation of technical systems, and the development of legal technologies. #accesstojustice #legaldesign #peoplecenteredjustice Deadline for abstracts: 29th November 2024

Call for papers: Race and Development: African, Afropean and Africanist perspectives 🔔 Please consider submitting an abstract to our panel at #ECAS in Prague from June 25-28, 2025 that I'm coordinating with Emma Abotsi, DPhil. 🌍 Drawing on African, Afropean and Africanist perspectives and experiences, this panel will critically explore how diverse ontologies of race are (re)produced, appropriated and/or resisted within spaces and practices associated with the international development industry. 👁️🗨️ Literature unpacking the relationships between development and constructions of race emerged in the late 1990s/early 2000s but remained marginal until recent #decolonial movements and protests around #BlackLivesMatter. While increased interest in this issue is welcome, much of this scholarship uses theoretical frameworks based on experiences of communities of African descent in Europe and North America which may not always capture dynamics elsewhere, including #Africa or the #Caribbean. This panel will use spaces and practices associated with the development industry (broadly defined) as sites to explore how ontologies of race travel and evolve between contexts – whether in development practice or academic scholarship. 📌 Themes to address include the following: ▶ Much scholarship on race and development employs the framework of white saviourism. While this concept is useful, does the rise of BRICS and development driven by diaspora communities not introduce more complexity than this concept allows for? ▶ Calls for Pan-Africanism, Afrocentric development and reparative justice challenge models of development defined by global North perspectives. Yet, whose constructions of race or race-based solidarity dominate and what new hierarchies potentially emerge within these movements? ▶ What of non-Western ontologies of race and/or descent-based hierarchies in African contexts, such as those grounded in caste systems, or Islamic intellectual traditions and legacies of the trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slave trades? How do these ontologies intersect with Euro-North American racial classification schemes (themselves multiple) in contemporary contexts? ▶ Ultimately, how do we define race or racial justice, on the basis of which empirical contexts, whose perspectives, and with what theoretical and practical implications? 🔅 See the full list of panels: https://lnkd.in/eAbUSAZ6

Fellowship Opportunity | Applications are now being accepted for the 2025 Martin J. Sherwin Fellowship, an opportunity for emerging scholars in any field of nuclear history. Competitively selected junior researchers (post-doc/recent PhD/junior faculty) will receive a three to six-month residential fellowship to conduct independent research at the Wilson Center and in the Washington DC area. The deadline to apply is November 30. Learn more here ⤵️ https://buff.ly/43bryYw

"Who Are ‘Humans’ in Military #AI?" One month to go before the abstract deadline for the workshop in Utrecht / Netherlands to be held in 12-13 June 2025. We look forward to receiving abstracts by 1 December 2024! The objective of the workshop is to understand, critique, and reconstruct who are ‘humans’ involved in – or excluded from – the development and use of AI systems in the #military domain. https://lnkd.in/eqk5vhaq Co-organized by Utrecht University (Governing the Digital Society; Contesting Governance - Realities of Algorithmic Warfare project) & T.M.C. Asser Instituut DILEMA project. Berenice Boutin, Jessica Dorsey, Lauren Gould, Marta Bo, Constant van der Putten

I hiring 3 PhD's in migration and international human rights law at Ghent University. The projects concern the migration case law of, respectively, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights; the African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights; and the UN committees. Deadline 12 January 2025. More info in three separate vacancy notices: - https://lnkd.in/eZtAwdfB - https://lnkd.in/eikmePeK - https://lnkd.in/ebAH3Fdu

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆! Interested candidates can share their CVs on 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀@𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝘀.𝗰𝗼𝗺! #amlegals #recruitment #vacancy #lawfirm #dataprivacy #corporatelaws

#hiringalert - Expanding our patent proofreading team in Gurgaon & Bangalore. IP professionals trained in this skill, please send in your name and number to careers@clairvolex.com Attractive joining bonus and confirmed up-skilling to work on Clair IDS or Clair Docket Assist (automated IDS and docketing function) in 12-14 months of delivering good quality patent proofreads. #ipparalegals #patents #patentproofreading