The digital society
The digitisation of society is a worldwide challenge. Not only are robots increasingly taking over human tasks, they are even beating the world champion at solving the most difficult brainteasers. In order to achieve a smooth interface between society and technology, care has to be taken with integrating new technical knowledge with knowledge of, for example, economic, socio-societal, legal, psychological and cultural factors. Leiden University is cooperating with other universities to meet this challenge. Read more in ‘The Digital Society’, the plan formulated by the Dutch universities, brought together within VSNU.
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E-zine on the national research programme 'the Digital Society'The fourteen Dutch universities have published a digital magazine in which the researchers explain the Digital Society programme in text and images.
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New website research programme Digital Society
On 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.
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Working visit by Minister Van Engelshoven focuses on digitisation of educationHow does online learning strengthen the quality of higher education and what are the barriers to implementing this more broadly? Minister of Education...
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VSNU presents Digital Society research agendaThe Digital Society research agenda was presented by the Dutch universities during the VSNU Impact festival on 23 November.
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Sybille Lammes new professor of New Media and Digital CultureSybille Lammes is leaving Warwick University in Britain to research digital culture in daily life at Leiden University. She will start as professor Ne...
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Pieter's Corner: Online privacyIn our digital society, the internet seems to offer endless possibilities for expressing yourself, gathering information, and making contact with othe...
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Sharing personal health dataComparing individual health data with group data allows doctors to give personalised advice and patients to learn from one another's experiences. Wess...
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Sifting through data the smart wayWe produce more data than ever before, and researchers gather more and more information. That data contains a wealth of insights and new possibilities...
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Centre for Innovation and LUMC win Surfnet Innovation ChallengeThe Leiden University Centre for Innovation and the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have won the Surfnet Innovation Challenge. The team won th...
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15th LCDS meeting connects data science and financeData science plays an increasingly important role in the world of finance. During the 15th LCDS meeting, organized by the Leiden Centre of Data Scienc...