UPCOMING
UPCOMING
When: 19 November 2025, 10AM to 4PM.
Where: Room (B-102), UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern.
Participation: Now open to all students. This is not a public event. Please send your registration requests to vihang.jumle@unibe.ch; Short travel support is available on request for doctoral / Post-doc candidates NOT based in Bern.
Supported by: Commission of the Promotion of Young Researchers, University of Bern
Description:
This is an interdisciplinary workshop that intends to educate digital media and technology scholars on how they can participate and engage with policy processes on the development and regulation of digital media and technologies. It does so by facilitating a constructive dialogue between early-career scholars and policy professionals to help discern the mechanisms that drive decision-making processes within national and international institutions. The workshop aims to help early-career scholars find an entry point through which their research could contribute to the larger policy debates of their disciplines.
This is an in-person, one-day workshop where participating early-career scholars will have the unique opportunity of interacting, in-groups and one-on-one, formally and informally, with a few key policy researchers / professionals, discussing their own research and examining its policy relevance.
Some example discussions may include: (1) What is a policy process and what are their various components; (2) What is currently on the policy agenda for digital technologies and why; (3) How to think about contribute to digital technology policies; (4) Who are the various stakeholders and how to approach them; (5) Case-studies on previous examples, like how were data protection and privacy legislation drafted, by whom, and their lessons; (6) How can scholars better communicate their research and through what medium?
Agenda and workshop format coming soon. For any questions or clarifications, please feel free to reach out to vihang.jumle@unibe.ch.
Tentative speakers (subject to change):
Dr Franz Baumann, President of ACUNS and previously assistant-secretary general for General Assembly at UN secretariat.
Dr Thomas Haeussler, Media Specialist at Federal Office of Communication and previously with the University of Bern
Jean-Nicolas Beuze, UNHCR Representative in Brussels
Dr Eleonore Fournier-Tombs, Head of Anticipatory Action and Innovation at United Nations University - Centre for Policy Research (online)
Asad Ramzanali, Director of Artificial Intelligence & Technology Policy at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator and previously with the Office of Science and Technology Policy at The White House (online)