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We are not biologically programmed to communicate online

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Digital leadership can lack empathy, understanding or consideration of the employee, because it is highly based on digital communication. Ph.D. Fellow and member of the I4L (Innovation for leaders) project Raluca Stana advises leaders to enhance and support a healthy and productive work environment by exercising socially and emotionally intelligent behavior online.

When digital education is a trip to Silicon Valley

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The debate about how the Danish Folkeskole should equip students for a digital future has been rolling back and forth since the early 1970s. In her PhD project, Sofie Stenbøg investigates how politicians, researchers, industry organizations and others are battling to set the agenda for digital education.

Voice messages help farmers in Bangladesh

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It technologies can help create sustainable development, but you also have to evaluate the initiatives for them to have a prolonged effect, says Associate Professor Lars Rune Christensen, who is developing an evaluation framework on the basis of case studies in, for example, Bangladesh

Young ITU researcher receives EliteForsk travel grant for teaching computers to think strategically

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Niels Justesen is awarded a travel grant of DKK 200,000, and plans to travel to both New York and France, to work with some of the leading researchers in computer games and robots.

IT security is vital for the democratic process

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Many countries are digitizing the electoral process. Associate professor Carsten Schürmann explores how it can be done without jeopardizing voters' trust.

CAST IT: Digital Ethnography

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Professor Sarah Pink is a guest on this episode of Cast IT, which zooms in on the field of digital ethnography.

New social media can give power back to the users

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New blockchain-based social media are gaining ground and challenging established platforms, such as Facebook, for example by paying their users in crypto currency for producing, sharing and liking content. These new media have the potential to give back control to the users, but according to Raffaele Ciriello, who is doing research on the topic, they also raise new ethical and legal issues.

CAST IT: Blockchain

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Roman Beck, Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen and head of the European Blockchain Center, talks to Thore Husfeldt about the possibilities of blockchain technology.

The biggest challenge for Service Design is the organization

There is no doubt that service design is important and a user centered way of engaging users and customers is crucial for surviving as we move into a service-driven economy. But succeeding with service design often takes both organizational and cultural changes. This is one of the biggest challenges for service design.

New ITU project aims to boost young women's interest in programming

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The IT University of Copenhagen is launching a three-year communication campaign with the goal of increasing the number of female students in its technical IT education programmes. The project is supported by a DKK 2.8 million grant from VILLUM FONDEN.