Year: 2019 Authors: Adéla Klečková and Roman Máca The future of modern technologies is being decided today. With virtual industries thriving, the demand for fast, efficient and ubiquitous network access is skyrocketing worldwide. The 5Gnetwork – the next mobile network generation – will soon become the backbone of our key data transmission infrastructure for everything from vehicles to power plants […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Efi Stefopoulou, Constantinos Saravakos, Zinaida Zlatanova and Ali Rıza Çoban Well-designed regulations are the indispensable institutional tool for citizens, business and government for the proper function of economy and society. The concept of regulatory quality reflects a set of principles which focus on the way a country should promote structural reforms on its regulatory framework, to […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Aleksander Aristovnik, Virág Bagi, Sára Baló, Robert Braun, Milosz Hodun, Dániel Mikecz, Dejan Ravšelj, Marko Ropret, Soma Sárkány and Andrea Virág During the 2016 US presidential election, the Brexit campaign and the recent parliamentary election in Hungary populist politicians contradicted the globalized city, urban lifestyles and multiculturalism with the traditional countryside, with Christian culture, with the lagging […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Julia Margarete Puaschunder The most recent decade featured a data revolution in the healthcare sector in screening, monitoring and coordination of aid. Big data analytics have revolutionized the medical profession. The health sector relies on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics as never before. The opportunities of unprecedented access to healthcare, rational precision and human resemblance but also […]

Year: 2019 Author: Basanta E. P. Thapa Data-driven government, meaning the use of technologies like data analytics, Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic decision-making for policymaking and public administration, offers advantages as well as challenges for a free society. Possible benefits include more efficient and convenient delivery of public services as well as better-informed policymaking with predictive analytics, policy simulations, and real-time […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Anastasia Costantini, David P. Ellerman, Tej Gonza, Urša Zgojznik, Felicita Medved and Sebastjan Pikl In the first half of the 21st century, human civilisation is faced with an unprecedented test. It is confronted by a rolling catastrophe of its own making. Climate change caused by systemic pollution and a steady rise in carbon dioxide levels will, in […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Carl Dalhammar, Mette Kahlin McVeigh and Jessika Luth Richter This report gives an overview of the concept of planned obsolescence and offers several examples of products and business practices which are affected by planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is directly linked to climate change as purposely designing products that stop working, works less well, or cannot be repaired […]

Year: 2018 Authors: Andreas Bergström, Anna Breman, Fernando del Río, Eduardo L. Giménez,  Georg Graetz, Claire Ingram and Darja Isaksson In the three years that have passed since the first printing, the findings in this book have largely been substantiated. European labour markets and income patterns have kept developing in the ways described here. In fact, employment numbers are not […]

Year: 2019 Authors: Dr. Canan Aratemur Çimen and Dr. Sezen Bayhan At the beginning of the twenty-first century, education for democratic citizenship attracted renewed attention, both nationally and internationally, because of the challenges raised by globalisation, migration, increasing inequalities and racism (Osler and Starkey, 2006), and the corollary concern for responding to such challenges that could pose a risk to […]

Year: 2019 Author: Marthe Hesselmans Migration is about crossing national borders. By definition, it involves different countries, their governments, communities and individual citizens. The question is how to manage migration so that the interests of all are best served, in a way that is humane, fair and transparent. The publication in front of you provides a much needed progressive liberal […]

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The future is here. Self-driving cars have made their way into the streets, there are robots that can help to do the dishes, and social media has fundamentally changed the way we socialise, mobilise and organise. At the same time, questions are being raised about the social and ethical implications of these developments. This book puts the citizens at the […]