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This year’s CEDIC Conference took place on Friday, 6 June, and focused on the topic Responsible Digitalisation. The event featured contributions from researchers across all centres and faculties at OsloMet, reflecting the breadth and depth of research on digitalisation taking place at the university. The annual conference is part of CEDIC’s ongoing initiative to strengthen collaboration between researchers at OsloMet and […]

Marit Haldar director of CEDIC and Professor of Sociology, has been featured as employee of the month at OsloMet! In the interview, Haldar reflects on what motivates her, what she does to bring joy to her colleagues, and the best academic literature she has read over the past year -among other things. Read the full

Algorithms are everywhere, shaping decisions in education, work, policing, and more. But are these systems fair? A recent article by Vassilis Charitsis, Mikko Laamanen, and Tuukka Lehtiniemi, explores this question and introduces a framework for resisting harmful algorithmic practices. Inspired by the 19th-century Luddite movement, where workers resisted technology that threatened their livelihoods, the researchers

From December 16th to 17th, Rune Halvorsen, Co-Director of CEDIC, and Jacqueline O’Reilly, a CEDIC associate from the University of Sussex, organized a workshop on digital ecosystems The workshop focused on the digitalization of work and the welfare state across 15 different countries. It was hosted at the Digital Futures at Work Research Centre (Digit)

Digital platforms are often praised for their “frictionless” design, making it easy for users to access services with minimal effort. Yet, as researchers Mikko Laamanen and Karolina Mikołajewska-Zając reveal, this frictionless ideal doesn’t always align with ethical goals. Fairbnb, a smaller alternative to the dominant Airbnb, illustrates the tension between running a fair, community-focused platform

Watch professor Rune Halvorsen explain why Norway has no minimum wage: https://film.oslomet.no/v.ihtml/player.html?source=embed&photo%5fid=98452011

As technology continues to change nearly every part of our lives, it’s also making its way into legal processes. Julia Köhler-Olsen looks at the experience of Norway’s welfare agency, NAV, where digital systems now assist in making certain decisions. The goal is clear: make processes faster and more efficient. But the big question remains: Can

We are excited to welcome Olga Gheorghiev to CEDIC! Olga brings extensive expertise in migrant workers’ labour market integration, with a focus on transnational networks and the impacts of digital transformation on employment conditions. Her current research project, IDILAB, explores the challenges migrants face due to technological shifts, aiming to inform policy improvements for a

The CEDIC team is excited to announce a series of new and engaging seminars and webinars, centered on the theme of innovation in welfare. This fall, we are pleased to present the following two events: Webinar | October 31, 14:00-15:30: Future Housing SolutionsWhat opportunities and challenges lie ahead when building care-friendly communities for the future?Read