Category: Economy
German Corona Summit: Continued Social Distancing, Fewer Restrictions, and Regional Responsibility | GermanPolicy.com
The Coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, a globally rampant lung disease, has claimed almost 7,000 lives in Germany, by the beginning of May 2020. But the infection rate is down…
Smartphone Tracking, or Contact Tracing | Context
Digital contact tracing creates location trails allowing for a supervising instance to know, in hindsight, whether two people were in proximity at the same time. Many smartphone apps only function…
Hate Speech Laws and Social Media Companies | Brief
The German government cabinet has passed a tougher stance against hate speech. What makes sense about the legal project, in Germany and elswhere, is to hold social media companies responsible…
Germany. Full Digital Identification of Online Users Impracticable | Context
The German Federal Council is examining whether in Germany, every user of social networks, and every online gamer, ought to be subject to identification requirements. The German federal states of…
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Limits | Brief
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the trend of the hour. It will have tangible and perceivable effects on the economy and on society, and will be revolutionary for a number of…
Balancing Free Speech and Customer Satisfaction | Context
How to put in line a) the value of free speech and b) the different understandings of customer satisfaction on social media platforms? The answer is this: via moderation by…
How Artificial Intelligence Can Make More Of Energy | Context
By Thorsten Koch, MA, PgDip Smartphone assistants already use artificial intelligence (AI). But AI is equally relevant in the energy sector. Through analyses and predictions, through secure and smart networks…
Résolution de conflits : Normes praticiens | Context
En général, il est différencié, parmi les practiciens, entre les conflits d’agence et les conflits structurels, selon la norme développée par l’emblématique Johan Galtung. Les conflits d’agence sont caractérisés par…
Conflict Resolution: Practitioner Standards | Context
Commonly, it is being differentiated between agency conflicts and structural conflicts, following the standard developed by practitioner Johan Galtung. Agency conflicts are characterized by a consciousness of suppositions and contradictions,…
“Homo homini lupus” | Brief
The above phrase, meaning “Man is a wolf towards men,” was made popular by adherents of Thomas Hobbes who linked the sentence to states in conflict. But in political philosophy,…