Hannes Werthner is a retired computer science professor at TU Wien, where he also founded the Vienna PhD School of Informatics and the Informatics Innovation Center. His research focuses on e-commerce and e-tourism, recommender systems, and network analysis. He organized the first workshop on Digital Humanism in 2019 (that adopted the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism), is a key figure behind the Digital Humanism Initiative and co-editor of the book "Perspectives on Digital Humanism" (Springer, 2022).Carlo Ghezzi is Professor Emeritus at Politecnico di Milano. He is an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, member of Academia Europaea, and member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (Istituto Lombardo). He received several awards, including the ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and the IEEE TCSE Distinguished Education Award. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from TU Wien. He has been doing research on software technology for more than 40 years and has more recently become active in digital humanism initiatives.Jeff Kramer is Professor Emeritus of Computing at Imperial College London. His research work is primarily concerned with responsible software engineering, with particular focus on software architecture, requirements engineering, adaptive software systems, and ethical practice. In recognition of his research work and service, Jeff was awarded the 2005 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award and the 2011 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and a Member of Academia Europaea.Julian Nida-Rümelin is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Political Theory at the University of Munich. He is Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin, vice president of the German Ethics Council and President of the Humanistic University Berlin. In 2018 he published together with Nathalie Weidenfeld the book "Digital Humanism" that was translated into Korean, Italian, and English; a Spanish translation is on the way. He is a board member of the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation. In 2023 he published his philosophical opus magnum "A theory of Practical Reason" (Palgrave Macmillan).Bashar Nuseibeh is Chief Scientist of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, and Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Limerick (Ireland) and Professor of Computing at The Open University (UK). His research interests include software requirements and design, adaptive systems, and engineering security, privacy, and digital forensics. His interdisciplinary work on responsible software engineering explores cyber-physical and psycho-social dimensions of the development and use of socio-technical. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea, and a fellow of the Britishand Irish Computer Societies and the Institution of Engineering and Technology.Erich Prem is a computer scientist, research strategy and policy advisor. Erich has a degree in managerial economics and holds doctorates in Philosophy (Epistemology) and in Computer Science (AI). He teaches digital humanism at TU Vienna and data ethics at the University of Vienna. He holds a research position at the University of Vienna in the Philosophy of Media and Technology. He was a guest researcher at the MIT AI Lab and at the Austrian Research Institute of AI (OFAI). Allison Stanger is Co-Director and Principal Investigator, GETTING-Plurality Research Network, Harvard University; Russell Leng '60 Professor of International Politics and Economics, Middlebury College; founding member of the Digital Humanism Initiative; and an External Professor and Science Board member at the Santa Fe Institute. In November 2022, she was a visiting professor at TU Wien anda Digital Humanism Senior Fellow at IWM. Stanger is writing a book tentatively titled Who Elected Big Tech?

Part 1: Background.- Humanism and Enlightenment.- Philosophical Foundations of Digital Humanism.- Evolution of Computing.- The Digital Revolution in a Historical Perspective.- The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Technologists in the Digital Age.- "Digital transformation through the lens of intersectional gender research Challenges and needs for action.- No Digital Citizens Without Digital Humanisms.- Digital Transformation, Digital Humanism - What Needs to Be Done.- Part 2: Digital Humanism- a System's View.- A Short Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Methods, Success Stories, and Current Limitations.- Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Comprehensible, Transparent, Correctable.- ARE WE IN CONTROL?.- The Re-Enchanted Universe of AI: the Place for Human Agency.- Aesthetic Aspects of Digital Humanism: An Aesthetic-Philosophical Analysis of Whether AI Can Create Art.- Approaches to Ethical AI[1].- Promises and Perils in Moralizing Technologies.- The Road Less Taken: Pathways to Ethical and Responsible Technologies.- Bridging the Digital Divide.- Responsible Software Engineering: Requirements and Goals.- Bridging the Digital Divide.- Responsible Software Engineering: Requirements and Goals.- Governance for Digital Humanism: The role of regulation, standardization, and certification.- Value-Sensitive Software Design: Ethical Deliberation in Agile Development Processes.- Humans in the loop: people at the heart of systems development.- Resilience: the Key to Planetary and Societal Sustainability.- How blockchain technology can help to arrive at fair ecosystems and platforms.- Introduction to Security and Privacy.- Part 3: Critical and Societal Issues of Digital Systems.- Recommender Systems: Techniques, Effects, and Measures Towards Pluralism and Fairness.- Bias and the Web.- Copyright enforcement on social media platforms: On Algorithmic Content Moderation.- DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL ERA.- Are Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance Democratic?.- Platforms: Their Structure, Benefits, and Challenges.- Work in a New World.- Digital Labor, Platforms, and AI.- Sovereignty in the Digital Age.- The Threat of Surveillance and the Need for Privacy Protections.- Human Rights Alignment: The Challenge Ahead for AI Lawmakers.- European Approaches to the Regulation of Digital Technologies.