Policing the City in the Digital Age

Policing the City in the Digital Age

We are aiming to produce a joint publication in the format of a special issue in an international academic journal. Moreover, we also aim to publish a short article to the general public and the professional community of police organizations.

The global politics of internet freedom

The global politics of internet freedom

Our project makes a critical intervention in this debate by examining how four groups of actors – the tech and academic community, non-profit advocacy organisations, states, and corporations – have influenced how we conceptualise internet freedom and evaluating the real-world consequences of their ideas

Re-thinking web search: Laying the foundations for a value-based open internet search and an open web index

Re-thinking web search: Laying the foundations for a value-based open internet search and an open web index

At CAIS, we will be researching and analysing ethical issues surrounding internet search. To this end, we will draw on previous findings from the Open Search Foundation’s Ethics Expert Group as well as interim results from the EU project OpenWebSearch.EU.
Suchmaschinen sind aus unserem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. Die Websuche wirft jedoch zahlreiche Probleme auf, darunter einen monopolisierten Markt, mangelnde Transparenz, fehlende Privatsphäre, ethische und geopolitische Risiken. Künstliche Intelligenz verstärkt diese. Die Informationsvielfalt als Eckpfeiler der Demokratie ist gefährdet.
Am CAIS werden wir ethische Fragen rund um die Internetsuche erforschen und vertiefen. Dazu stützen wir uns auf bisherige Ergebnisse der Fachgruppe Ethik der Open Search Foundation sowie auf Zwischenresultate des EU-Projekts OpenWebSearch.EU