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Events, talks, symposia and online conferences of the Open Search Foundation
Events, talks, symposia and online conferences of the Open Search Foundation
The First International Workshop on Open Web Search (WOWS) aims to promote and discuss ideas and approaches to open up the web search ecosystem so that small research groups and young startups can leverage the web to foster an open and diverse search market.
How can we find our way around the web in a self-determined way? How can a web search for the common good be created? Orientation on the web – discussed and rethought. The conference weekend is organised together with Evangelische Akademie Tutzing. Topics will be values, democracy, platform power, social aspects, and, of course, also about searching the internet. The detailed programme is still in preparation. More information will be available at the beginning of January. Pre-booking is possible.
The 5th Open Search Symposium brings together the Open Web Search community in Europe. It provides a forum to discuss and further develop the ideas and concepts of open internet search. Participants include researchers, data centres, libraries, policy makers, legal and ethical experts, and society.
#FreeWebSearch Day is an annual day of action to promote free, open and transparent internet search. Every year on and around 29 September, events and activities take place to inform, inspire reflection and show how we can search better, safer, more trustworthy on the internet.
Three days, six research tracks, 34 presentations, two extra sessions and five keynotes: With keynotes from Tim Smith (CERN), Astrid Mager (Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Werner Stengg (Digital expert in the cabinet of EU Commissioner and Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager, Carla Hustedt (Director “Centre for Digital Society” at Stiftung Mercator) …
Keynote speakers were Prof. Dirk Lewandowski (HAW Hamburg), Dipl. Inf. Michael Christen (Initiator and Maintainer of YaCy/GRID), Eng. Marco Verile (Project Leader of the Europe Media Monitor (EMM) at the European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC)).