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Explore the uncharted terrain of gender perspectives in environmental discussions in Israel with our inaugural research, 'Gendered Perspectives on Waste in Israel.' Delve into unique insights, shedding light on waste management through a gender-sensitive lens.

Safeguarding and promoting legal, human and civic rights of the LGBTQI community in Israel. The legal database is open for the use of attorneys, judges, academia, journalists, experts, community members, and all those interested in the legal status of the community in Israel.

Targeted advertising, or microtargeting, involves displaying selected ads to a predefined group of users on a platform at auctioned prices. This Explainer highlights the implications and controversies surrounding the practice.

This backgrounder aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of how digital media are shaping democracy and what might be done to limit possible avenues of anti-democratic abuse, while kindling their democratic potential.

Over the past two decades, digital rights have become central to global internet governance debates, with varying interpretations across countries. This Spotlight offers an overview of digital rights in Israel.

This Spotlight explores how the ability of AI to disseminate information more effectively is prone to abuse and can pose a threat to democracy. It then discusses the preconditions and potential of AI to support the building of a critical public sphere.

One can say that fake news is old news, and so are misogyny, sexism, and gender stereotypes. What has changed in the digital era is the ease of coordinating, financing, and propagating disinformation campaigns.

Regulatory interdependence shapes AI ethics enforcement and requires a diverse approach to enhance jurisdictions' AI sovereignty, crucial for the EU's digital sovereignty goals.

Over the past two decades, social media has significantly reshaped democratic societies, offering greater diversity of opinion and information exchange while also posing risks of subversion exploited by authoritarian regimes.

A closer look at the Jewish population in Israel’s Mixed Cities reveals a complex image of migration, disconnection, and concrete challenges faced by women, mostly single mothers or elderly. Unfamiliar with the details and history of the ethno-national conflict, new immigrants from weaker backgrounds are situated in these contested spaces.

This backgrounder explores AI's impact on democracy, focusing on three areas: its influence on the public sphere, its role in election campaigns, and the accountability of automated decision systems in public services.

AI is growing fast with 'smart' machines and automated systems, but it faces a significant gender gap with few women in global AI and data roles. This Explainer highlights the need to close this gap.

What is Privacy by Design? How address the evolving challenges to privacy as a fundamental right in our increasingly digital and networked world, amidst growing concerns over data breaches and surveillance? What challenges does privacy face today?

Data stewardship describes a set of governance mechanisms that allow individuals and communities greater agency over their information. How can data stewardship models address questions of power imbalance in the data economy?

Combating authoritarian overreach and protecting minority rights without turning autocratic is a perennial challenge for democracies, now intensified by the threat of digital authoritarianism.

This analysis aims to capture and cluster different post-GDPR enforcement styles by DPAs across the EU to better understand why enforcement over data protection issues vary across borders.

AI regulation is a debated intensively worldwide, with new laws in countries like France, Germany, China, and Canada, and ongoing debates in the US and Brazil. The following backgrounder explains the key issues at stake.

Proper systematic audits of automated decision-making can keep algorithms accountable and help systems and institutions understand and address inherent biases.

This text evaluates online media control in liberal democracies, noting that combating disinformation has increasingly justified governmental restrictions on information flow.

Data-driven decision-making can discriminate against minorities. While scientists have developed fairness constraints to counter this, enforcing these constraints may paradoxically harm the disadvantaged group.