Digital Ecosystems Conference @DELab UW

During the con­fe­ren­ce Digi­tal Eco­sys­tems (29.06.2015, Audi­to­rium Maxi­mum, Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw) we took part in three key­no­te spe­eches and more than 40 other spe­eches. The con­fe­ren­ce was ope­ned by Pro­rec­tor of Uni­ver­si­ty of War­saw prof. Anna Giza.

The key­no­tes who made lec­tu­res were:

• • prof. Lucia­no Flo­ri­di (Oxford Inter­net Insti­tu­te, Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford): The New Mor­pho­lo­gy of Power, he told abo­ut social con­trol and power in the world of digitalization,
  • prof. Bole­slaw K. Szy­man­ski (Social Cogni­ti­ve Networks Cen­ter, RPI, Troy, NY, USA): Dyna­mics of Spre­ad of Opi­nions in Social Networks, he said abo­ut the dyna­mics of spre­ad of opi­nions in social networks using two models for social contagion,
  • prof. Jacqu­es Dubucs (ESFRI, CNRS): Social Phy­sics and Its Appli­ca­tion, he expla­ined how we can nowa­days under­stand phy­sics and its appli­ca­tion to social studies.

In three paral­lel panels: Inno­va­ti­ve and Digi­tal Eco­no­my, Digi­tal Socie­ty and Digi­tal Huma­ni­ties the who­le day rese­ar­chers from Poland and abro­ad discus­sed abo­ut con­se­qu­en­ces of digi­ta­li­za­tion for modern mar­ket, socie­ty, phi­lo­so­phy. Betwe­en panels on cof­fee bre­aks and lunch all had chan­ce to know each other.

Kata­rzy­na Śle­dziew­ska, PhD and Tomasz Bro­dzic­ki, PhD gave a pre­sen­ta­tion „The role of the tech­no­lo­gy and inno­va­tion gap in Polish tra­de rela­tions. Empi­ri­cal veri­fi­ca­tion with the use of tra­de gra­vi­ty appro­ach” and with Tina­tin Akhvfe­dia­ni – „Can Viseh­rad coun­tries be com­pe­ti­ti­ve in high technology?”.

We’re looking for­ward to seeing you on the other events of DELab UW!
Thank you all for the par­ti­ci­pa­tion in the conference!

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