Tag: politics

Trust is good, oversight is better

With all the environmental promises made during an election campaign, it is easy for voters to quickly lose sight of the overall picture. And checking up on these promises is another challenge …

Regards, your automated decision

As automated decision-making systems become central for distributing rights and services, institutions increasingly recognize their role in public life. Ideas on how to approach this.
Angela van Rooden
Topic Developer

Let’s build the Life Sciences Hub of Europe

Lift Basel, taking place from 29-30 October 2015, the not-to-be-missed conference connecting Life Sciences and Technology, had one clear message: It is time to innovate and think …
Nadia Fischer

The president of the greens (city zurich) is blogging

and does this on our very own Freeflux.net . It's all here: http://kunz.freeflux.net/blog/ As next year is big election year in Switzerland, he certainly won't be the last one starting …

Apocalypse soon

Robert McNamara in “Apocalypse Now” (in English , in German). At the risk of appearing simplistic and provocative, I would characterize current U.S. nuclear weapons policy as immoral, …

Swiss voted Yes to Gay “Marriage” (and Europe ;) )

It's not totally official yet, but looks like both polls were accepted by the Swiss people. We have now something-like-marriage (it's not totally the same, but “good enough”. No …

Swiss People. Vote!

Another voting weekend for Switzerland in approx. 2 weeks for its citizens. This time about joining the Schengen/Dublin treaty and allowing a registered partnership between gay couples …

Become a swiss pioneer polit blogger

The “NZZ am Sonntag” ran an article about Blogs today yesterday (the usual kind, nothing really interesting, but also nothing really really bad). But the author is lamenting about the …

Posters against WEF

After the success of “posters against war“, the successor: “Plakate gegen das WEF“. Really good stuff and hosted by our partner netzwirt

Google Bombing – Swiss Edition

Jämmerlicher Waschlappen ;) Via Adi on IRC