1,682 search results for “ethics digital technologies” in the Public website
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Harald van Mil
Lecturer at Leiden University, Mathematical Institute and Institute of Biology, Leiden - the Netherlands
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Constant Hijzen discusses new digital world of espionage in Dutch newspaper Trouw
On 28 December 2019, Dutch newspaper Trouw published an essay by Constant Hijzen, Assistant Professor Intelligence Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the Institute for History. In the essay, he discusses two books on a new genre of espionage: the authors provide access into…
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Start-up grant awarded to develop Digital Helpdesk for the Elderly
The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations has awarded the Dutch Administrative Law Association (VAR) a start-up grant for one of the projects of the initiative 'Bestuursrecht beter' (better administrative law): a Digital Helpdesk for the Elderly. The grant will enable the VAR to take the first…
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Alex Brandsen and Bjørn Peare Bartholdy interviewed on Digital Scholarship Blog
The Leiden Digital Scholarship Blog explored two different ways of opening up research at an early stage: preprints and pre-registration. How to go about making your research or research plans publicly available at an early stage, and what can you expect to happen after you have done so? Among others,…
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Lecture Simone van der Hof at symposium Digital Transformation In Law & Society
Simone van der Hof participated in the 2-day symposium Digital Transformation In Law & Society: Comparatve Perspectives on Family and New Media organised by the the Käte Hamburger Kolleg 'Recht und Kultur' of the University of Bonn on 3 and 4 February 2020.
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Lunch Seminar: Data Localization as a Data Sovereignty in Nigeria's Digital Policy Landscape
On Monday 6 May, GTGC guest researcher Joohyun Baik presented her research on 'Data Localization as a Data Sovereignty in Nigeria's Digital Policy Landscape'.
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Ethics of Political Commemoration: Applying a New Paradigm to Remembrance
Lecture
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Automation, Ethics and Sustainability of Indirect (Pivot) AVT
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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Athina Boleti
Faculteit Archeologie
a.boleti@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jian Wang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.wang@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The Wadi Al Jizzi Archaeological Project
The Wadi al Jizzi Archaeological Project is a systematic and long term archaeological surface survey project, investigating the rich archaeological heritage of the Wadi al Jizzi region (Oman) from the Paleolithic until the early Modern period.
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Bibi van den Berg about the digital war between Russia and the Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine plays out not only physically but also digitally. Van Den Berg, Professor of Cybersecurity Governance at the FGGA, talked about it at several news outlets.
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About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor Museums, Heritage and Collections.
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Education
Teaching at the Institute of Public Administration focuses on studying public administration in its broadest sense, including semi-government, lobby organisations, civil society and relevant private organisations. Our courses have an interdisciplinary and theoretical-empirical approach, integrating…
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Security Vision
How do technologies of computer vision, which promise to replace humans in the understanding of images, work in practice in the field of security, and what are their ethical and political implications?
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Classical Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and…
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The use of computational toxicology in hazard assessment of engineered nanomaterials
Assessing the risks of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) solely on the basis of experimental assays is time-consuming, resource intensive, and constrained by ethical considerations (such as the principles of the 3Rs of animal testing). The adoption of computational toxicology in this field is a high p…
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Programme structure
Learn how to conduct policy-oriented research, join one of our field schools and gain relevant working experience.
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Programme structure
In the master's specialisation Global Ethnography, will follow several courses that aim to make your research project as successful as possible. From writing an academic research proposal to the complex task of writing up data once you return from the field. Each student also receives individual supervision…
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Alumni
PhD candidates are encouraged to start thinking about job prospects well before the defence of their thesis. Many PhD graduates find employment in an academic or semi-academic environment.
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The scholarly self: character, habit, and virtue in the humanities, 1860-1930
Why did 'character', 'habit', and 'virtue' serve as key terms in late 19th and early 20th-century scholarly correspondences, biographies, and obituaries? Why did scholars around 1900 display so much interest in the working habits and character traits of what they called the 'scholarly self'?
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Victor Klinkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
m.v.klinkenberg@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Gavin Robinson
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.l.robinson@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? Together with his colleague Maarten Lamers, he created the guest lecture 'Thinking about Artificial Intelligence'.
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: 'Focus on what's really important'
Developing a digital guest lecture for high school students. Jan Sleutels was immediately enthusiastic when he got asked to do this. The end result? Together with his colleague Maarten Lamers, he created the guest lecture 'Thinking about Artificial Intelligence'.
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.
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anticipate. How the municipality of Amsterdam manages developments in the digital public domain.
The issue of how to deal with a development such as digitalisation in the public domain raises difficult questions for the municipality: who is responsible and when do you intervene?
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Experiencing Fragments
The fragmentary is everywhere: we encounter fragments in social media (Tiktok, Twitter), in personal memories from our childhood, and in traditions from our cultural heritage.
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Lars van Doorn speaker at ESOF2022: ‘A great opportunity in many ways’
From 13 to 16 July, Leiden will host the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), the largest multidisciplinary scientific conference in Europe. Lars van Doorn from Leiden Law School will give a presentation.
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Attacks on hash functions and applications
Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger
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Waiving Jury Deliberation: The Humility Argument
This article argues that, given the current pervasive uncertainty about the reliability of jury deliberation, we ought to treat it with epistemic humility.
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Collections of Perfection
This project, executed by Marieke Hendriksen MA MRes, aims at an analysis of how the early modern anatomical collections of Leiden University were rooted in ideals of perfection in different fields of knowledge and expertise.
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Programme structure
Learn about current approaches and ethical issues in heritage management and experience some of these in daily practice.
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AI4EUROPE: an AI on-demand platform to support research excellence in Europe
AI4Europe is one of the projects, funded under the Horizon Europe programme, that is responsible for the management, development and facilitation of the AI-on-Demand Platform (AIoD).
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The Marie Curie ITN proposal ‘Mediating Islam in the Digital Age’ (MIDA) has been awarded
An international consortium of research institutes, universities and non-academic partners in six European countries has been awarded with a research grant from the Department for Research and Innovation of the European Commission in June 2018. MIDA is coordinated by the ‘Centre National de la Recherche…
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Print referencing during e-storybook reading on a SMART board for kindergartners to promote early literacy skills
This study examined the effects of a classroom-focused intervention on different domains of early literacy. The intervention consisted of shared e-book reading combined with a print referencing technique done via a SMART board. The specific goal of the study was to examine whether children could be…
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Righting and Rewriting History: Recovering and Analyzing Manuscript Archives Destroyed During World War II
Archives were a common target during the Second World War, and hundreds suffered damages. Among these archival losses, the losses to medieval manuscript collections stand out.
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Improving citizens’ participation in public service delivery: the possibilities of data dashboards
Data science offers exciting new instruments for governments to reach out to citizens, for example by using data-driven information channels, providing real-time simulations, or personalizing services based on citizen data. At the same time, the possibilities and use of data science methods can have…
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Farm Excursion Nov 2022
In November we went to a real, biodynamic farm (Kwekerij Eko Logisch) and listened to David, a farmer who believes you can limit harm to the environment while still growing heaps of vegetables, fruits, and herbs. On the two-hour visit, we were shown around the farm and even encountered some animals.
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Current PhD candidates
You have chosen to do a PhD track at Leiden University. What do you need to know when you start your project?
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Artificial Intelligence & Business
The minor Artificial Intelligence & Business (previous name Science, Business, and Innovation) will provide you with knowledge and skills on the intersection of the fields of artificial intelligence, management, and entrepreneurship, with a focus on programming, technology management, entrepreneurial…
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Jelle van Buuren and Dennis Broeders on 5G: Technological Dangers and European Chances
The 4G network will soon be replaced by 5G. 5G will enable users to set up faster and more reliable data links as well as better privacy protections. For intelligence agencies, however, the upgrade in data protections will create huge problems.
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How quantum mechanics threatens our digital lives – and makes them safer
Much of the work of Serge Fehr, Professor of Quantum Information Theory, is abstract and theoretical and comprehensible to very few people. But his work helps make the digital world safer so that in future our internet banking will still be problem free, for instance. He will explain more in his inaugural…
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Digital guest lectures for secondary school students: 'The interdisciplinary collaboration gives me energy'
Can a robot perform a religious ritual just like a monk? And what exactly is a religious ritual? Robots and religion seem to be two different subjects, but according to university lecturer Elpine de Boer, both can make us think about what it means to be human and what we consider to be of value. Together…
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Data Management: Where to permanently store the digital archaeological datasets these days?
It is the end of your archaeological research project, and you may be wondering where to deposit your data. After the excavation, all of the finds are drawn, scanned, digitised, and the database is completed. Perhaps you have also accumulated a lot of data through further scientific analysis of the…
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In conversation with the head of the rodent facility
Before patients can take a pill, scientists often spend years in the lab developing and testing a candidate drug. That often includes experiments with laboratory animals. As head of the rodent facility, Ilze Bot and her colleagues ensure that these experiments are conducted in an ethically responsible…
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Detection of Archaeological Sites in High Resolution Satellite Images
In this project we develop algorithms to automatically detect a particular type of archaeological sites in satellite images of the Alps.
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The domestic implements of the Single Grave Culture: the case of the Noord-Holland province
The use-wear analysis of domestic implements provided new insights of the Single Grave Culture population in the Netherlands.