Shefali Virkar
@S_Virkar
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Assistant Professor, WU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) Austria. A political scientist working at the interface of digital technologies, government and society.
Vienna, Austria
Joined April 2013
Bought this book quicker than you could say" #PrinceAndrew". This #ValentinesDay, let's remember the #survivors of #trafficking, #exploitation,and #abuse across the world, and stand with them as they rebuild their lives.#EpsteinFiles #GrokAI #GiselePelicot #Weinstein #MohdAlFayed
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#ThatsMe Last November, I had the honour of being featured as part of the @IdealEngage Project’s Women in ICT series. It has been three years since I joined the team at @GovPubman, and I have grown both as a person and a professional. Grateful always for life's many blessings.
🔦 Spotlight on @S_Virkar. Shefali opened our Women in ICT interview series in the IDEAL project. Her insights are powerful, and her advice is inspiring. Don’t miss it! 📰To read the whole interview, visit the link below https://t.co/dUBI8CRFqC
#Citizendeliberation #WICT
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An outright #ban on #socialmedia is less the act of a confident #government,and more a scramble to regain #control over a #technology and an #industry in the wake of a #failure of traditional top-down #policymaking. #Regulation involves #stakeholderconsensus and #digitalliteracy.
Following legislation introduced by the Australian government to stop young people from using major social media services, the OII's Dr @VickiNashOII weighs in on whether the under-16 social media ban is the right course of action:
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📢The #IFIP #EGOV2026 CfP is out! Delighted to be chairing the #SmartCities track ( https://t.co/DyfExsnYVx) with @ManuelPedroRod1 and Joep Crompvoets. 📅Deadline: 16 March 2026 🔗 Submission: https://t.co/6zkumWWoGW✍30 Aug-3 Sept 2026. Join us in #Athens, #Greece this summer!
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How does #language shape the way we #perceive and interpret the world? What are the #consequences for the life-changing choices we make? How can we take back the use of language to protect the most #vulnerable in #society? Today's #WUMattersWUTalks event made me stop and think.
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#Deliverable writing on a wintry afternoon in an empty office for the @IdealEngage project. This, the second #report of WP1, focuses on #politicalparticipation from the perspective of experts and beneficiaries. So satisfying to see raw data turn into text! #researcher #worklife
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Now is the time to examine how students engage with #ArtificialIntelligence tools in both academic and non-academic settings, explore the cross-over of competencies, and to harness this deeper understanding to support traditional teaching methods and foster critical thinking.
More than two-thirds of European universities say their PhD students are using artificial intelligence in the course of their research, according to a major survey, which also found that doctoral education leaders see “more opportunity than challenges” in the rise of AI tools.
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✍ Two weeks to go until the #dgo2026 submission deadline! If you work at the intersection of digital government and computational methods, submit to Track 6. We - @LoniHagen , @kellytonbrito, @xalexopoulos, @neo_matrix_, @S_Virkar, and @ Corey Kewei Xu - await your contribution!
#DGO2026 Please join us @ Track6 Application of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Methods, and Data Science for Public Value Creation! https://t.co/YqrUGvbzZ5
#JingZhang @HMarijn, #Yu-CheChen @MilaGasco @LoniHagen @TomaszJanowski @IdaLindgren3 @gabiviale @gpuron #HelenLiu
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#HotOffThePress The first IDEAL Project newsletter is out! Find out what our diverse and multi-talented team has been upto for the last 12 months. Subscribe to keep abreast of the latest project developments as we continue to build a truly inclusive deliberative space in Europe.
🆕 Our first project newsletter is live! 📜 Read more to find out fresh updates, from breaking down communication barriers to empowering more voices in public debate. Subscribe to our newsletter! 👉 https://t.co/xnMqiVz8tH
#Citizendeliberation #Languagetools #Democracy
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#NowReading“Heart Lamp” by #Indian #author, #lawyer and #activist @BanuMushtaq, translated from the Kannada by @DeepaBhasthi;powerful short stories about women, their struggles in patriarchal societies, and the triumph of the spirit. An inspiring, thought-provoking start to 2026!
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As British artists push back against legislation that could see their work being used to train Generative AI models, now is the time to assess the extent to which these technologies pose an existential threat to cultural and creative industries worldwide. How can we #MakeItFair?
Artists in silent protest at proposed AI copyright law
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A thought-provoking and timely reflection on how generative AI has brought academia to an inflection point, forcing us to reconsider traditional approaches to scholarship and learning.
Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education | Impact of Social Sciences
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The @IdealEngage project has officially begun! This time last week, I was in Athens with @slnoner for the kick off meeting. Our team from @GovPubman, @wu_vienna will play a pivotal role in all aspects of the project over the next three years, and we are delighted to be involved!
🚀 Exciting Times Ahead, as we kick off our IDEAL project this week! 🌟IDEAL aims to transform language into a bridge in the political arena by leveraging AI-powered real-time translation, creating a multilingual deliberation platform. #Citizendeliberation #Multilingualspaces
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Another highlight of yesterday's #PMGSpotlight event!
@S_Virkar @oneumann_ch @GovPubman @LSchmidthuber @MrJurgenWillems .@LSchmidthuber presenting her great paper
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The inaugural edition of #PMGSpotlight is underway! Guest interventions by @krabina and @oneumann_ch, hosted by @GovPubman's team of @LSchmidthuber and @MrJurgenWillems.
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📢The launch of the #PMGSpotlight series is less than a month away! Join @LSchmidthuber, @MrJurgenWillems and the rest of the @GovPubman team for an evening of insightful interactions with our distinguished Guest Speakers. Register with the QR code provided in the attached flyer.
Join us at the first edition of the PMG Spotlight series! 11 May 2023; with @LSchmidthuber, @krabina, @oneumann_ch, @MrJurgenWillems at the WU Vienna. https://t.co/FinC0U9gHB
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📢Join the @GovPubman team for the inaugural edition of #PMGSpotlight on Thursday, 11 May 2023!
For the people in and around Vienna: we are organizing an event about: **Transparency of public performance data and trust of citizens.** Come and join us on the @wu_vienna campus! Find the information here: https://t.co/FinC0U9gHB
#Vienna #Science #Public #Transparancy
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My lovely @GovPubman colleague @LSchmidthuber has just published a fascinating study looking at the impact of the Covid-19 on digital transformation in the Austrian public sector. Follow the link below to learn more!
If you want to learn more about the effect of the pandemic on digital government transformation in organizations from the Austrian federal administration, read the #openaccess here: https://t.co/6H7xAwPEuV (2/2)
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I said to someone only a few days ago that the next big #disruptive application of #GenerativeAI models will be their integration with #searchengines. #Microsoft and #Google have now announced plans to do just that. What this means for the #future of the #web remains to be seen.
Microsoft unveils new Bing with ChatGPT powers
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📢The #IFIP #EGOV2023 CfP is out! Excited to be chairing the #SmartCities track with @MPedroRguez and Joep Crompvoets. Be sure to submit your research on time to join us and the @DGSociety community in #Budapest at @uni_corvinus later this year!
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