DCN SEE Hub and Digital Communication Network are organizing, via Zoom, the webinar “Belarus: Mechanisms of a Popular Revolt“, which will take place in the 4th of August at 17:30 (Athens Time).
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The world is confronted with a major global pandemic, impacting all facets of society and the economy. This webinar will evaluate how the global pandemic is highlighting and magnifying inequalities and posing a threat to women’s employment, livelihoods, and their mental and physical wellbeing. Speakers from across the world will discuss the resources and efforts to respond to these growing inequalities and advance gender quality.
The young generations have been greatly affected by the Covid–19 global pandemic. Classes were moved online, some foreign students had to return to their countries and most students replaced the in-person social interactions and learning with stay-at-home education. Internet connectivity and the capabilities of their respective schools are generating discrepancies and inequalities that need to be addressed.
Sports stars are increasingly using their huge personal platforms to speak out and promote social justice. It is worth recalling the proud tradition of athlete activism in the US.
On February 2020 Pew Research Center published a research on digital disruption of democracy. Tech experts expressed their opinions on the role of digitalization on democracy and its impact on people.
DCN SE Hub and Digital Communication Network are organizing, via Zoom, the virtual conference “The Day After COVID-19 #digitaltroubleshooting”, which will take place in the 15th of July at 16:00 (Athens Time).
DCN SEE Hub and Digital Communication Network are organizing, via Zoom, the webinar “Cultural Organizations During and After COVID-19“, which will take place in the 30th of June at 18:30 (Athens Time).
The COVID-19 pandemic harmed China’s image all around the world. Ever since the outbreak, China’s external propaganda has been working hard on damage control, including enlisting all controlled media, digital influencers, and social media outlets. However, while at first Beijing’s propaganda focused on deflecting international criticism over its domestic response, it soon gained an offensive edge, spreading disinformation over the origin of the virus and attacking other countries’ responses.
DCN SEE Hub and EADPP are organizing the 1st online webinar EADPP Branch GR «Doing business online in social distancing era: privacy and communication issues», which will take place on the 17th of June 2020 at 19:00 (Athens Time), focusing on the enterprise activities that are organized online and during the times of social distancing, but also in the new conditions that come up, about the privacy and the communication.
The Economic Forum of Delphi will be held, online, in 9-12 of June this year gathering leaders and executives from the field of politics, the business world and the academic community from around the world. During the works of the forum online dialogues will be organized, providing a wide perspective of the effects of the pandemic in society and in the economy.
DCN SEE Hub, Digital Communication Network and World Learning are organizing the webinar “Bend it like, Brandi, Marta, Eugenie, Asisat…”, via Zoom, which will take place in June 11th 2020 in 17:00 (Athens Time). This webinar will explore the opinions and beliefs of acclaimed women-leaders from the field of sports and more specifically how they perceive the set of the skills that helped them establish and continue their success.
The conversation “Programming the Digital World” is organized by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Greece and Cyprus and it the first of its kind in Greece, while it is aiming to cause a broader public discussion about the development frame and the function of modern technologies, among others, and artificial intelligence. Issues of the function of democratic institutions will be discussed and the role of various institutional factors and interested parts will be analysed. The theme of this discussion is based on the recently published book of Dr. Phitsili, “Imposing regulation on advanced algorithms” (Springer,2019), about the regulatory adjustment of advanced algorithms.