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How to detect disinformation on social media? This is the topic of the first summer school on disinformation of the institute “Big data for smart society” (GATE), at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ”. It was opened on July 26, 2021, in Plovdiv. The two-day event is organized jointly with the Association “Information Society Development” – ARIO.

During a special event, the team of GATE Institute, together with Prof. Nikolay Denkov, Minister of Education and Science, Prof. Anastas Gerdjikov, Rector of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski ” and Mr Konstantin Pavlov, Mayor of Lozenets district laid the foundations of the new building of the institute.

GATE BIG DATA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FORUM

  The first annual event of the GATE Institute took place on December 10^th, 2020, online. The Big Data and Artificial intelligence forum (BDAIF) aimed to demonstrate how Big Data and Artificial Intelligence can tackle society’s problems, to enable the exchange of ideas with leading researchers – partners of GATE, to present the results and raise awareness of the activities of the institute. It was organized in collaboration between the GATE Institute, Bulgaria and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

GATE INSTITUTE CREATES A PLATFORM FOR RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF THE ECONOMY DURING AND AFTER THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

The “Big Data for Smart Society” – GATE Institute, creates the first-of-its-kind platform (COVID-19 Activity Tracker – CAT), which processes and presents empirical information on the business of individual industries and the economy as a whole, based on constraints. imposed on the human factor.

This is performed in a way that allows stakeholders to decide on their own or joint post-crisis recovery actions.