- Who Owns Our Digital Afterlife? Helping the Law Keep Pace With Society
- BCU Recognised as Key Partner by Computer Networking Leader Cisco
- University Names Building After Benjamin Zephaniah
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Alongside traditional estates, we now leave behind digital remains after we die, from social media accounts and emails to AI-generated recreations of ourselves. Our digital legacies are creating new and potentially troubling questions about autonomy, and dignity after death.
Dr Edina Harbinja, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham, is spearheading a pioneering initiative to modernise European law to respond to novel questions about access, inheritance and privacy. The new model laws Dr Harbinja is creating will be the first of their kind and will set the standard for how digital succession is regulated around the world.
Birmingham City University (BCU) has once again been recognised as a global leader in digital skills education, securing the Cisco Networking Academy Premier+ Partner Award for the seventh consecutive year.
Presented by Cisco Networking Academy, the award places BCU among the top 5% of partners worldwide - a standout achievement from a network of more than 12,200 academies and 31,300 instructors across 195 countries.
Zephaniah, from Handsworth in Birmingham, was a Brummie legend whose career spanned poetry, literature, music and acting. He died in December 2023, aged 65.
Birmingham City University (BCU) has now renamed a four-storey building, formerly known as University House, as the Benjamin Zephaniah Building.
BCU Vice Chancellor David Mba said Zephaniah had strived to "give a voice to the voiceless"...
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