social informatics · 11. Juli 2019
Katharina Zweig received the communicator award 2019 _
for her dedicated and versatile communication on ethical, political and social implications of algorithms and their use, as the DFG, the donor of the award, describes it. Prof. Dr. Katharine Zweig, computer scientist, is an experienced ad well recognized networker on behalf of many aspects in social informatics …
social informatics · 08. Juli 2019
_ Wie sich Hürden in der Umsetzung des Verpackungsgesetzes bewältigen lassen und was dies mit Sozioinformatik zu tun hat …
social informatics · 01. Juli 2019
A colleague from Switzerland wrote: "Reading your blog I realized that I'm already doing social informatics. Can you give me some advice, how to become an expert in social informatics?" Like in any other area it is a trio: do it, learn it, promote it …
social informatics · 14. Juli 2018
How a good web application induces relaxed accounting and tax declarations _ Today I would like to introduce you to a bird, the madge (or magpie), metaphorically speaking. A madge is in German "die Elster". elster is the acronyme for "Elektronische Steuererklärung", electronical tax declaration. It started in 1996 and today it is one of the best applications I ever met. This counts for both the local option and even more for the web platform elster.de
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social informatics · 05. Juni 2018
_ Useful material and picked up anecdotes _
Again an example how a good newsletter induces to dive into a topic and to find useful material, inspiring websites, amusing stories and witty anecdotes. This time a newsletter of the chamber of commerce and industry (Industrie- und Handelskammer) Frankfurt am Main contained a link to Jürgen Schmidts' DSGVO-Absurditätenkabinett and this led to this and that. To two of them I want to introduce you right here.
