Yogyakarta, April 22^nd 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) held Digitalk #39 which consist of two big sessions. The first session consists of discussion about the political and commercial value of data which started from April 21^st 2020 to April 23^rd 2020. The first session was called “The Data I Called: Data Collection of State and Business” which was filled by Katharina Nocun, a writer and privacy activist from Germany.

In Talk 1, Katharina talked about the contents of her book which is called The Data That I Summoned. This book explained her experiment of exposing how big companies store and use consumer’s data. Katharina admits that this experiment is a frightening one which leads her to learn about herself more than she learns about data. read more

Yogyakarta, April 22^nd 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS released the second video of the first Digitalk #39 session called ““The Commercial and Political Value of User Data”.  The video’s duration is 25 minute and it discusses the topic of social media and political ads in Indonesia which was presented by Alia Y. Karunian. Alia started the session by discussing the scandal of Cambridge Analytica that happened in the start of 2018, a turning point for online privacy and data protection. read more

Yogyakarta, April 22^nd 2020—The faculty of Social and Political Science (FISIPOL) cooperated with the Faculty of Social Health, Medical School, and Nursing School (FK-KMK) of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) held a seminar last Wednesday. The seminar called “COVID-19 Resistant Village Movement: How to Accommodate Society’s Participation Digitally?” had Prof. Dr. Erwan Agus Purwanto, M.Si as the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, dr. Fatwa Sari Tetra Dewi, MPH, Ph.D., and dr. Rizkiyana Sukandhi Putra, M.Kes as the speakers. The seminar was held in two platforms which are zoom and a live streaming from FK-KMK UGM’s channel. The discussion’s moderator was Dr. Supriyati, S.Sos., M.Kes. read more

Yogyakarta, April 20^th 2020—CfDS UGM held Digitalk #39 Digital Discourses with “Privacy in the Age of Data Capitalism” as the theme. These events were held from Monday, April 20^th to Thursday, April 30^th 2020 through CfDS UGM’s Youtube channel. CfDS held this event with the help of Goethe Institut Indonesien, ELSAM, and ICT Watch. The speaker of the event was from Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, and also Indonesia. This series of the digital discourses are meant to explore the effect of digital transformation towards the community, politics, economy, and our environment. Digitalk #39 started with a keynote session about five unsettling questions on digital capitalism which was presented by Michael Seemann. read more

Yogyakarta, May 18th 2020— UGM’s Department of International Relation cooperated with the National University of Singapore to hold a discussion titled “Southeast Asia’s COVID-19 Battle: Current Responses and Future Outcomes” with Mustafa Izzudin as a senior professor in National University of Singapore. The discussion was guided by Treviliana Eka Putri as a professor in UGM’s Department of International Relation. The discussion about ASEAN’s response to Covid-19 and future implications was explained through an international relations perspective. read more

Yogyakarta, 17 April 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) UGM held another routine discussion called Digital Future Discussion (Difussion) #22 on Friday evening (17/4). The discussion that broadcasted live through the channel YouTube of CfDS brought a theme ‘COVID-19: Technology, Data Privacy, and Infodemic’. Difussion #22 presented three speakers, they were Janitra Haryanto as the Project Officer of Research CfDS, and two Research Assistants of CfDS, they were Fajar Cahyono and Dhalia Ndaru, H. R. The discussion was moderated by Ruth Tarullyana Simanjuntak as the Staff of Event & Social Media CfDS and the discussion went on from 03.30 p.m. to 05.00 p.m. read more

Yogyakarta, April 16^th, 2020—Center for Digital Society Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM (CfDS Fisipol UGM) was back online conducting the 14^th edition of Digital Discussion series titled “Tips on Writing Content on Social Media” last Thursday. This discussion was discussed in the WhatsApp Group platform with 111 participants, coming from various majors. Digital Discussion by CfDS invited the speaker Wardahtuljannah as CfDS Social Media Associate, @missfioree who was then called Mbak Wardah and moderated by Aldo Rafi Presnauli Siregar as the CfDS Partnership Assistant who guided the discussion. read more

Yogyakarta, April 16^th, 2020— Sharing session conducted by Creative Hub (C-Hub) Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM (Fisipol UGM) took place with the headline “Digital Activism in the Emergency Response of COVID-19” which held on last Thursday afternoon online. Inviting Suparlan as the Coordinator of the Disaster Sector SHEEP Indonesia Foundation (Yayasan SHEEP Indonesia/YSI) and Fathin Naufal as the founder of Gifood, C-Hub discussed all sorts of digital activism that can be done to help each other in the pandemic. read more

Yogyakarta, 16 April 2020 – These days, podcast is not a strange thing for the millenials in Indonesia. Many top influencers uses podcast as a content to share their casual conversations or even as their source of income. Even though it is quite popular for the millennials, but it seems like there are still many of us that do not know how to make a good podcast. Therefore, Career Development Center or CDC Fisipol UGM held a webinar event called “How to Start A Podcast” on Thursday, 16 April 2020 through the Cisco Webex platform. This webinar started at 01.00 p.m., with Wisnu Prasetya Utomo, S.I.P, M.A. as the speaker and also the lecturer of Communication Science Department UGM and was moderated by Alfira Nuarifia H. as the staff event of CDC. read more

Yogyakarta, April 15^th 2020—Exposure Talks is a digital discussion held by the Global Engagement Office (GEO) of Gadjah Mada University’s Faculty of Social and Political Science. Exposure Talk aims to open a dialog about student exchange and international exposure. The first Exposure Talks meeting was titled “Life in Japan” with E. Aradipka Haninda P. or Dipka as the speaker. Dipka is an alumni of International Relations study that did an exchange program to Japan, specifically at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) for a year. read more