[English] Ethics are critical to the IT field. That is why The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) works digitally towards preserving the trust of interlocutors and communities they serve in order to access affected areas. During this webinar, their goal is to tell you about their backgrounds and how they got to work in ICT and cybersecurity at the ICRC.
This project aims to develop economically based terminology and conceptualizations as well as a sound understanding of digital markets and their regulation in order to propose key values for a Swiss digital policy with a focus on data policy. The resulting framework for analyzing the origins and effects of challenges in digital policy from an economic perspective will then be applied to current political and regulatory initiatives in Switzerland and the EU. Recommendations are derived from this.
For this Factory Update called “Ethical EOF” we invited Sylvain from Prof. Carmela Troncoso’s SPRING lab. He gave us an introduction to “Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)”. We learnt how it can be used in privacy-preserving technologies (PET). Sylvain presented a use case to us which is federated learning. As FHE allows for performing data analysis (…)
[En] A new EPFL developed tool, Quotebank, has helped researchers provide the first large-scale data-driven evidence of a drastic shift towards a more negative political tone beginning at the start of Donald Trump’s primary campaign in June 2015.
The advent of digitalization has profoundly transformed societal and economic structures by reshaping traditional value chains into digital platform-driven networks, impacting various sectors, including public services in Switzerland. This project aims to examine the influence of digital platforms on Swiss public services and proposes recommendations for a digital policy.
On October 4th, C4DT brought together 20 stakeholders from the Swiss service public sector, administration, politics, civil society and academia to discuss the relationship between digital platforms and traditional physical public services. The goal was to explore the need for action, room for maneuver, and potential initiatives to develop recommendations for the formulation of a (…)
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Signal processing, cryptography
This report summarizes the key results of the 2. Workshop on Digital Service Public held with 20 stakeholders from Swiss public administration, politics, industry, interest groups, civil society and academia.
As part of our work on the digital public service in Switzerland, we have written an initial working paper in which we focused in particular on the question of the future of the traditional service public in the context of progressive platformization.
The C4DT Embassy is facilitating collaboration through workshops and events. It helps partners sharing insights and exchanging knowledge. It connects ideas, people, organizations, and scientific domains. It promotes C4DT and its partners.
Venture Kick has awarded a grant of CHF10,000 to DemoSquare – an EPFL spinoff (by PhD students Victor Kristof and Jérémie Rappaz) that aims to make the democratic process more transparent and more accessible. Turning their research into a product, the team is now preparing for their official launch on October 22 with the Swiss Federal elections.
Programming languages, computer architecture and formal hardware verification
In this book lawyer Jamie Susskind addresses the issue of the unaccountable power exerted by Big Tech. Susskind problematizes the fundamental challenges that the engineers who design and control digital technology pose to democratic power and legitimacy.
Susskind, J. (2022). The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century. London: Bloomsbury, 464 pages. By Melanie Kolbe-Guyot Jamie Susskind’s book, “The Digital Republic: On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century (Bloomsbury 2022), addresses the issue of the unaccountable, hence undemocratic, power exerted by Big Tech. A lawyer and former research (…)
This book provides and excellent analysis of how digital platforms have become so powerful and so pervasive that they have by now permeated every corner of society and social life to the point that they determine, at least in part, the way society operates.
Van Dijck, J., Poell, T. and M. de Waal (2018). The Platform Society. Public Values in a Connective World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 226 pages. By Matthias Finger This book is already five years old and probably older if one considers the time of writing, an eternity when it comes to rapidly evolving digitalization. Yet, (…)
Join us on July 12 for an insightful event co-hosted by C4DT, CIS and IMI, featuring a talk by visiting professor Anderson Rocha from the University of Campinas in Brazil on “AI-driven synthetic realities and trust: implications for the media and our society”. This thought-provoking talk, followed by a panel discussion with EPFL professor Touradj Ebrahimi, affiliated with C4DT, and moderated by researcher and journalist Gilles Labarthe, will shed light on the crucial role of trust in navigating the intersection of AI and synthetic realities, making it a must-attend event for anyone interested in the future of technology and its impact on society and the media.
This blog post was written by our C4DT Digital Trust Policy Fellow, Leonila Guglya. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of C4DT or EPFL. On 18 June 2023, the citizens of the canton of Geneva in Switzerland voted for the (…)
Congratulations to C4DT associated professor Touradj Ebrahimi for being elected as a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial
Intelligence Association thanks to his pioneering activities at the intersection between #AI and Trust.
AAIA gathers top scientists in different disciplines that can be combined with AI, AI related institutions, and entrepreneurs that have AI applications to drive innovation, development and application of AI.
Prof. Ebrahimi is an Adjunct Professor and is the Head of the Multimedia Signal Processing Group at EPFL. He is also the founder of RayShaper SA, a high-tech start-up company in the field of AI-powered computational vision.
[bilan.ch] [langue : Français] Assureurs et employeurs peuvent obtenir des informations sur les métadonnées. Olivier Crochat, directeur exécutif du Center for Digital Trust de l’EPFL, met en garde les utilisateurs de ces outils. // Article protégé par un paywall.
[rts.ch] La vague ChatGPT accélère la course à l’intelligence artificielle et à ses innovations, mais renforce les risques de désinformation à grande échelle. Invitée : Sabine Süsstrunk, professeure Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne et affiliée au C4DT.
With its Artificial Intelligence Act, the EU wants to ensure that Europeans can trust in what AI has to offer. The EU AI Act will introduce an approach of evaluating risks of AI systems on the principles of ethical AI. Its impact will be felt widely across different industries as the law creates new regulatory (…)
[rts.ch] La RTS s’intéresse aux progrès de l’intelligence artificielle, et interview le Prof. Rachid Guerraoui, affilié au C4DT, en direct de l’EPFL.
