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It is a partner in the lectures series Making Sense of the Digital Society. This series of speeches gives leading European intellectuals the opportunity to present key concepts of the digital society in order to better understand the complex present and the uncertain future.
To understand current social and technological change, we need explanations that help shape our future. Within the framework of the lecture series „Making Sense of the Digital Society", visionary experts share their perspective on the digital society of our time. They address fundamental questions: What could a European perspective on the current transformation process look like? What is the meaning of power and how is it distributed? And what role do digital technologies play in this?
Education Partners in Vietnam
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Lectures and Discussion about the effects of digitization on us and the world around us. The current rapid social and technological and social change brings about enormous uncertainties – a great need for explanations and sense-making but also of shaping our common future. This high-profile lecture series thrives to develop a European-Vietnamese perspective on the processes of transformation that our societies are currently undergoing.
What is changing in society? What is power in the digital society, and how is it distributed? Is there more democracy through increased participation and transparency? Or less privacy protection and more surveillance and fragmentation of social life? Are services fuelled by algorithms and artificial intelligence improving our private and business lives, or do they enforce social inequalities? How does urban life change in times of digitization, what role do infrastructures take?
This series has been produced by the Alexander von Humboldt INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY (HIIG) and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). Its adaption for Vietnamese audiences wants to serve as source for information, inspiration and discussion.
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SOCIAL ORDER IN THE DIGITAL SOCIETY 02.04.2021, 7 pm. * Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City Registration at 6:30 p.m. | Start at 7 p.m. * Online via Zoom Start at 6:45 p.m. |
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THE ROLE OF HUMANS IN AN AGE OF INTELLIGENT MACHINES 05.03.2021, 7 pm. * Live at the Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at the Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City Registration at 6:30 p.m. | Start at 7 p.m. * Online via Zoom Start at 6:45 p.m. |
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DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE DIGITAL SOCIETY 05.02.2021, 7 pm. * Live at the Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and online via Zoom Registration at 6:30 p.m. | Start at 7 p.m. * Online via Zoom Start at 6:45 p.m. |
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WHAT PROBLEM DOES DIGITALISATION SOLVE? 15.01.2021, 7 pm. Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City; Online via Zoom |
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DIGITIZATION AND SOCIETY OF SINGULARITIES 11.12.2020, 7 pm. Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City; Online via Zoom |
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SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY 06.11.2020, 7 pm. Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City; Online via Zoom |
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