news
Launch of AlgorithmWatch Switzerland
news
AlgorithmWatch is now also represented in Switzerland - as a Swiss organization with its own team and new exciting projects.
AlgorithmWatch appointed to ‘Global Partnership on AI’
news
Today was the kick-off of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), a founded by the EU Commission and 14 countries. AlgorithmWatch was appointed to the GPAI as one of the very few civil society organizati…
AlgorithmWatch receives core funding from the Schöpflin Foundation
news
The Schöpflin Foundation will support the work of AlgorithmWatch over the next three years. We will use the funding to advance and implement AlgorithmWatch’s fundraising strategy and to sharpen our ad…
UN special rapporteur on digital technology and social protection denounces a “human rights free-zone”
news
The report of the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights condemns in strong terms the way governments are privitizing and automating welfare management.
First convening of the AlgorithmWatch Supervisory Board
news
On 1 October, the AlgorithmWatch Supervisory Board held its first meeting. We are delighted that Katharina de la Durantaye, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Steffen Wenzel will be supporting us…
AlgorithmWatch accepts invitation by Facebook to discuss company’s plans for creating oversight board
news
Next week, AlgorithmWatch will participate in a workshop organised by Facebook, convening representatives of the company and external stakeholders to discuss whether and how a Facebook-appointed board…
OpenSCHUFA is nominated for the Grimme Online Award
news
Grimme-Institut has nominated the crowdsourcing project OpenSCHUFA by AlgorithmWatch and Open Knowledge Foundation Germany for the Grimme Online Award 2019 in the category SPECIAL (website in German).
Volkswagen Foundation funds new AlgorithmWatch project with planning grant
news
New project of AlgorithmWatch and TU Braunschweig aims to Bridge the structural competence gap for AI in HR.
New project: Governing Platforms
news
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new project Governing Platforms, which is funded by Civitates, a collaborative philanthropic initiative that aims to strengthen the capacity of civil soc…
AlgorithmWatch will host a Mozilla Fellow
news
We are very excited to be one of ten nonprofits and civil society organizations hosting a Mozilla Fellow 2019-2020!…
Launch of our ‘AI Ethics Guidelines Global Inventory’
news
AlgorithmWatch's inventory of principles, voluntary commitments & frameworks for an ethical use of algorithms and AI (work in progress)…
No red lines: Industry defuses ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence
news
Artificial intelligence should serve people and respect fundamental rights. This is what an expert group of the EU Commission demands in its now published guidelines for these technologies. However, u…
IEEE launches Ethically Aligned Design, First Edition
news
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published the first edition of Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems…
New guest researcher joins the AlgorithmWatch team
news
A warm welcome to Lukas Zielinski, our new guest researcher. Lukas studied Liberal Arts & Sciences in Maastricht where he focused on Politics, Economics, and Philosophy. He then maintained his int…
