PRODIGEES is a project – jointly lead by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and the Mexican Instituto Mora – which is researching the effects of digitalisation on the environment, economy, governance and society throughout 2025. It sits on the cutting edge of research into digitalisation and transnational knowledge cooperation.
The project is supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program and connects eight countries on five continents in an investigation of digitalisation’s social, governmental, economic, and climatic impacts from local, national, regional and global perspectives.
Even in a pre-COVID19 world, digital technologies were already a powerful tool for achieving the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Now, the global pandemic has exposed the need for more cohesive transnational cooperation networks, and it has provided the imperative for research into digital innovations and their applications.
As of June 2022, the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) is now the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS).
News, Publications and Events
News from the PRODIGEES project:
- Technology as a Catalyst Driving the Youth Engagement in Global Development – Boon or a Bane?, IDOS blog post, November 2024
- INTERNATIONAL FUTURES (IF) programme: Insights into Sustainable Digitalisation, IDOS Newsletter October, 2024
- The EU and Forest Protection, IAI Newsletter, September 2024
- Brazil, South Africa & the Ban on Huawei, Democracy Delivered Newsletter, July 2024
- Joint Conference of the National School of Government of South Africa and MGG, IDOS Newsletter May 2024 (dafür kann die deutsche Version gelöscht werden: Gemeinsame Konferenz der National School of Government of South Africa und MGG, IDOS Newsletter, May 2024)
- MGG-PRODIGEES Policy Labs at Stellenbosch University, IDOS Newsletter May 2024 (dafür kann die deutsche Version gelöscht werden: MGG-PRODIGEES Policy Labs an der Universität Stellenbosch, IDOS Newsletter, May 2024)
- Feldforschung vom Amazonas bis zur brasilianischen Küste, IDOS Newsletter, February 2024
- PRODIGEES: IDOS-Expertinnen führen Interviews im Amazonas, IDOS Newsletter, October 2023
- MGG-PRODIGEES Policy Labs an der Universität Stellenbosch, IDOS Newsletter, May 2024
- Gemeinsame Konferenz der National School of Government of South Africa und MGG, IDOS Newsletter, May 2024
- PRODIGEES research exchanges at IDOS, June 2023
- PRODIGEES: Digitalisation and Sustainability, April 2023
- Research stay in Jakarta: IDOS researcher Benjamin Stewart looks at Open Science in relation to science policy, March 2023
- Research team III of 58th Postgraduate Training Programme enters their last phase of research in Brazil, March 2023
- Research team of the Postgraduate Training Programme in Brazil, February 2023
- PRODIGEES-Projekt: zwischen Labor und Business School in Brasilien, February 2023
- Can artificial intelligence counter growing inequality?, November 2022
- MGG-PRODIGEES Authors Workshop with CIFE: Digitalisation Towards Sustainable Development, October 2022
- Side Event zu “Utopias of Global Cooperation” beim T20-Gipfel Indonesien 2022, September 2022
- PRODIGEES project: visiting scholars at IDOS, August 2022
- The German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) changes its name to the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), June 2022
- PRODIGEES conferences „The 2030 Agenda and International Training for the Public Sector“, IDOS Newsletter, May 2022
- PRODIGEES Workshop “Digitalization and Sustainable Development – Enabling Narratives Towards a Green Digital Transformation”, IDOS Newsletter, May 2022
- Call for Abstracts: MGG-PRODIGEES Authors Workshop; deadline April 28, 2022
- Call for Applications: MGG-PRODIGEES Fellowship; deadline March 20, 2022 (closed)
- Exchange between Mexico City and Bonn, IDOS Newsletter, November 2021
- Online event series by MGG Network, PRODIGEES and CIFE continued, IDOS Newsletter, February 2021
- New online event series by EU network PRODIGEES on digitalisation and climate change, IDOS Newsletter, January 2021
- PRODIGEES – Research, Training, and Staff Exchange on Digitalisation and Sustainability amid Covid-19, Newsletter article, December 2020
- How the EU and rising powers can shape their future sustainably by Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners / Benjamin Stewart, The Current Column (2020)
- Democratic Governance of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence? Exploring Governance Models of China, the US, the EU and Mexico by Schneider, Ingrid, EJournal of EDemocracy and Open Government (2020)
- Do follow our project members on their secondment. Search #PRODIGEES on Twitter.
Publications & Digital Knowledge Products:
- Transnational Intersectionality at Sea: Gender, Appearance, Ethnicity, Age, and Marine Knowledge Production, a publication by Ramona Hägele and Anna-Katharina Hornidge, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 2025
- inhabiting body-territories in the datafied city. a Zine about embodiment, a fanzine by Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcântara, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Technology Assessment (OEAW-ITA), November 2024
- Information Pollution, Polarization, and Brazil’s Democracy, a podcast by Anita Breuer, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), November 2024
- What to ask to start talking about body-territory, a zine by Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcântara, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Technology Assessment (OEAW-ITA), October 2024
- The EUDR and Forest Protection at the Crossroads, a publication by Lorenzo Colantoni, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), IAI Commentaries 24|41, July 2024
- Huawei or the US way? Why Brazil and South Africa did not securitize 5G, a publication by Janis van der Westhuizen, Stellenbosch University (SU), July 2024
- Shared understanding and beyond: toward a framework for data protection and cross-border data flows, a policy brief by Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Research & Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg (UHAM), and Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), September 2022
- The European Union’s Governance Approach to Tackling Disinformation – protection of democracy, foreign influence, and the quest for digital sovereignty, a publication by Matthias Kachelmann and Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 2023
- Kommunikation in der Polykrise. Was Wissenschaftskommunikation von konstruktivem Journalismus lernen kann, a column by Sabrina Heuwinkel and Ramona Haegele, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), March 2024
- Los costos ambientales de la digitalización, a publication by Simone Lucatello, Instituto Mora (MORA) and Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), March 2024
- Synergising Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Commons for Sustainable Development, a publication by Vy Dang, Eva Maria Lynders, Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Aliasger Bootwalla, Gateway House, March 2024
- PRODIGEES Policy Labs: Guiding points for writing our scientific policy advice, by Sven Grimm, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), April 2024
- AI for SDG Acceleration – NSG MasterClass in Cooperation with MGG-PRODIGEES, by Sven Grimm, Matthias Kachelmann, Wulf Reiners und Benjamin Stewart, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), July 2024
- Synergising DPI and digital commons, a publication by Vy Dang, Eva Maria Lynders, Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Aliasger Bootwalla, Gateway House, August 2024
- Measures to Support Inclusive Access to Information + Information Integrity. Good Practices Brazil, by Anita Breuer, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), August 2024
- Eco Tourism, the Amazon, Sustainability, Digitalisation. Synergetic Stories, by Ramona Haegele, Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Juliana Mansur, Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV), March 2024
- Can we bring digitalisation and the environment together? Agenda and coalitions beyond techno-fix illusions, a Column by Simone Lucatello, Instituto Mora (MORA) and Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), February 2024
- Organic Açai Farming in the Amazon Region. Synergetic Stories, by Ramona Haegele and Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), February 2024
- Sustainable Cocoa Production in the Amazon Region. Synergetic Stories by Ramona Haegele and Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), January 2024
- Education and Gender Equality through Sports (SDG 4). Synergetic Stories, by Ramona Haegele and Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), December 2023
- Technologies to Protect Global Forests: The Case of Indonesia, a publication by Lorenzo Colantoni, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), IAI Commentaries 23, November 2023
- Technologies to fight global deforestation: the case of Indonesia, a webinar by Lorenzo Colantoni, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), November 2023
- Sustainable and Digital Food Industry in the Amazon Region. Synergetic Stories, by Ramona Haegele and Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), November 2023
- Trailer: Synergetic stories on sustainability and digitalisation, by Ramona Haegele and Sabrina Heuwinkel, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), October 2023
- Synergising Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Commons for Sustainable Development, by Vy Dang, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), August 2023
- Big ambition meets geopolitics. Are Southern voices and the SDGs the way to success for India’s G20 presidency?, by Vy Dang, Eva Lynders and Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), August 2023
- What is the Brussels Effect? Data Protection in a Connected World, a podcast with Ingrid Schneider, Universität Hamburg (UHH), August 2023
- „Artificial Intelligence“ and social sustainability Ethical principles for AI technologies as solutions for reducing poverty and inequality?, a publication by Johann Čas Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW-ITA), Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at. Das Fachmedium für Forschung, Praxis und Diskurs 49, July 2023
- Impressions from the Field Research on the Potential Role of Digitalization in Curbing Food Waste and Loss (FWL), by Ariel Macaspac Hernandez, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), December 2022
- How digitalisation and technology empower women working on the ocean and along the Amazon River, a Column by Ramona Haegele (IDOS) and Juliana Mansur (FGV), June 2023
- PRODIGEES research stay in Brazil: knowledge production, inequalities, & colonialism, by Ramona Hägele, April 2023
- A Case For Open Science In Indonesia: Advancing Digital Literacy, Scientific Infrastructure, and Leadership, a Publication by Benjamin Stewart, April 2023
- Digitalisation for Inclusive Development: An Overview of Digital Strategies and Public Policies in the Europe and India, a Publication by Amit Kumar, RIS, April 2023
- Building Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements through Data Co-production, a Publication by Giulia Sofia Sarno, IAI, March 2023
- “Access to information and open data: Benefits and challenges for Mexican Society”, a Presentation by Anita Breuer, IDOS, Instituto Mora, February 2023
- Urban resilience to extreme natural events and climate change: from Brasil to Europe, a Webinar by Giulia Sofia Sarno, December 2022
- Can Digital Currencies End Financial Exclusion in Indonesia?, a Webinar by Nicola Bilotta, December 2022
- How Open Science can revolutionize global knowledge cooperation, a Column by Benjamin Stewart & Wulf Reiners, November 2022
- The 2030 Agenda: It’s Governance, a Blog by Francisco Porras Sanchez, Instituto Mora, November 2022
- Can Digital Currencies End Financial Exclusion in Indonesia? Economic Realities and Policy Ambitions, a Publication by Nicola Bilotta, IAI, September 2022
- Digital Transformation of agri-food system: policy pathways for greater socio-economic inclusion, sustainability, and international cooperation (t20indonesia.org), a Policy Brief by Amit Kumar et al., RIS, August 2022
- Can Digital Currencies End Financial Exclusion in Indonesia? Economic Realities and Policy Ambitions a Presentation by Nicola Bilotta, IAI, August 2022
- Complex Systems, Fragility and Security: Challenges for the EU Governance and Its Global Partners in Climate Change and Digitalization by Simone Lucatello, Instituto Mora (MORA), May 2022
- Das ferne Echo Europas: Plattformregulierung,Datenschutz und Digitalkultur in Mexiko by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg (UHAM), May 2022
- Traveling Waves: The Indonesian Tsunami Warning System – STS Webinar Series #1 by Irina Rafliana, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and University of Bonn, April 2022
- Die Digitalisierungsstrategie der Europäischen Union – Meilensteine und Handlungsfelder zwischen digitaler Souveränität und grüner Transformation by Wulf Reiners, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), 2021
- Can digital platforms be democratically regulated? by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg, October 2021
- Open Science: Epistemologies, science policy implementation and digitalisation by Benjamin Stewart, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), November 2021
- Convergence and divergence in global data protection law, by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg, November 2021
- Trade agreements and data protection – Mexico’s position between Europe and the US by Ingrid Schneider; a podcast by Interview Ö1–Austrian public radio
- A European Approach to Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Possible Global Impact by Krishna Ravi Srinivas, Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi
- CIFE Executive Training Web Seminar. Climate Change and Digitalisation: setting the context by Dr. Simone Lucatello (2021)
- CIFE Executive Training Web Seminar. Climate Change and Digitalisation: the promise and the perils by Dr. Simone Lucatello(2021)
- Data protection, AI and digital rights in Mexico: Europe as model of reference? by Ingrid Schneider (2020), Humanistische Union, vorgänge Nr. 231: Zeitschrift für Bürgerrechte und Gesellschaftspolitik
- Inteligencia artificial y cambio climático by Gustavo Sosa Núñez (2020), Sin Embargo
- How the EU and rising powers can shape their future sustainably by Grimm, Sven / Wulf Reiners / Benjamin Stewart, The Current Column (2020)
- Democratic Governance of Digital Platforms and Artificial Intelligence? Exploring Governance Models of China, the US, the EU and Mexico by Schneider, Ingrid, EJournal of EDemocracy and Open Government (2020)
- Can digital plataforms be regulated? A Dialogue Between The European Union and México (2020)
PRODIGEES events:
- November 5, 2024: Presentation by Franco Jauregui Fung: Co-benefits of mass transit for land value uplift and transit-oriented development in emerging economies: Lessons from Jakarta with IDOS, CSIS
- November 7, 2024: MGG Network – Brazil National Network Meeting 2024, MGG network meeting organised by the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília, Brazil
- November 13, 2024: Global cooperation on sustainable development after the 2024 election year, T20 Summit Side Event organised by Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) & German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- October 18, 2024: Keynote by Ingrid Schneider held at the Conference Freedom in Digital Infrastructures, Berlin, Germany: Digitale Infrastrukturen und Geopolitik: Zum Brüssel-Effekt in Mexiko, Brasilien, Indien und Südafrika
- October 23, 2024: Webinar by Margherita Bianchi and Lorenzo Colantoni: The EUDR and forest protection at the crossroads with IAI, CSIS, FGV
- October 22, 2024: Presentation by Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcântara: Inhabiting body-territories in the datafied city with OEAW-ITA, Instituto Mora
- September 23, 2024: Presentation by Rafaela Cavalcanti de Alcântara: Cuerpos territorios para pensar el urbanismo basado en datos with OEAW-ITA, Instituto Mora
- July 2, 2024: Presentation by Isela Orihuela: Digitalisation and sustainable cities, with IDOS, Instituto Mora
- June 22, 2024: Presentation by Janis van der Westhuizen: ‘Containing’ Huawei: Comparing Brazil and South Africa’s responses to US/China rivalry with SU, LUISS
- April 17, 2024: Research seminar by Janis van der Westhuizen: Huawei or the American way? Why Brazil and South Africa did not securitize 5G with SU
- September 29, 2023: Digitalisation: Information Integrity and Information Pollution. Module III: Politics, governance and conflict, Managing Global Governance Academy (MGG), German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- April 19, 2023: Presentation by Laura Fichtner: The Politics of Platform Governance: NetzDG, Democracy, and the Regulation of Content Moderation in Germany (and Brazil) with UHAM, FGV
- June 26, 2023: Presentation by Laura Fichtner: Platform Regulation in Brazil – Marco Civil and PL2630 with UHAM, FGV
- August 2, 2023: Presentation by Juliana Mansur: Women in Entrepreneurship: Examining the Role of Female Leadership in Fostering Sustainable Development Practices with FGV, IDOS
- December 12, 2023: Presentation by Adinova Fauri: Navigating the Needs of CBDC: Exploring the Objective and Design of CBDC in the Indonesian Context with CSIS, IAI
- June 20, 2024: Presentation by Citlali Ayala Martinez: The Role of Digitalisation in South-South Cooperation with Instituto Mora, IDOS
- July 8, 2024: Presentation by Ingrid Schneider: Proteção de Dados e a Implementação da LGPD no Brasil, with UHAM, FGV
- April 28 – May 3, 2024: MGG/PRODIGEES Policy Labs. Digitalisation Towards Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch, South Africa, with SU, IDOS
- March 12, 2024: Webinar by Anita Breuer: To Inform and Misinform. The Current Situation of Brazil’s Information Ecosystem with IDOS, FGV
- October 2, 2023: Presentation by Ramona Haegele: Workshop on qualitative research in Belém, Brazil during Amazon immersion expedition with FGV
- September 27, 2023: Presentation by Vy Dang: Unpacking Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Commons with IDOS, RIS
- August 12, 2023: Presentation by Vy Dang: Unpacking Digital Public Infrastructure with IDOS, RIS
- June 07, 2023: Effects of digital platforms on think tanks in Germany and Indonesia by Medelina Hendytio with CSIS, IDOS
- May 25, 2023: Sustainable digitalisation in the Brazilian public sector by Mara Braun, Laura Donath, Sven Grimm, Sophia Hoerbelt, Sophie Lampert, Wulf Reiners, and Marcel Wich, IDOS
- May 11, 2023: PhD Colloquium Presentation by Benjamin Stewart: Making sense of science policy discourses in different world regions – IDOS
- May 5, 2023: Presentation by Benjamin Stewart: Regional Open Science policy implementation: snapshots from science and technology regimes in Germany, Indonesia and Mexico with the Global Young Academy (GYA)
- April, 13, 2023: Braun, Donath, Grimm, Hoerbelt, Lampert, Reiners, Wich: Sustainability and Digitalization in Brazil with IDOS, FGV
- April, 7 2023: Presentation by Braun, Donath, Grimm, Hoerbelt, Lampert, Reiners, Wich: Sustainable Digitalisation in the Civil Service in Brazil with IDOS, FGV
- March 13, 2023: Presentation by Benjamin Stewart on The State of Open Science in Indonesia: a preliminary analysis of digitalisation and science systems with IDOS, CSIS
- March 8, 2023: Presentation by Benjamin Stewart, IDOS, on Socio-Cultural and Global Challenge in Organization, with IDOS, Jakarta Polytech, LAN NIPA
- October 19, 2022 – Presentation by Francisco Porras Sanchez of Instituto Mora, Society, Digitalisation, and Technological Change (SODICAT) with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- September 21-24, 2022 – MGG-PRODIGEES Authors Workshop with CIFE
- August 26, 2022 – Presentation by Nicola Bilotta of Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Can Digital Currencies End Financial Exclusion in Indonesia? Economic Realities and Policy Ambitions with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- May 10, 2022 – Hybrid Peer-Exchange by Judith Boeckle of DIE, Sustainability and International Training for Civil Servants—Local Leadership, with Instituto Mora.
- May 4, 2022 – PRODIGEES Roundtable Discussions by Wulf Reiners of DIE, Digitalization and Sustainable Development – Enabling Narratives Towards a Green Digital Transformation with Instituto Mora
- April 13, 2022 – Presentation by Irina Rafliana, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and University of Bonn on Traveling Waves: The Indonesian Tsunami Warning System – STS Webinar Series #1, with Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional) (BRIN) and coordinated through the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- April 5, 2022 – Panel discussion of UNESCO’s A Safe Ocean | Core Event | 5th #OceanDecade Laboratory, featuring Irina Rafliana, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) and University of Bonn
- March 28, 2023: Presentation by Johann Čas: Artificial intelligence“ and social sustainability – Approaches on the EU, with ITA- ÖAW
- March 23, 2022 – Presentation by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg on Democratic Governance of Digital Platforms and AI, with Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV)
- February 22, 2022 – Steering Committee Meeting (Setting the 2022 Agenda)
- January 25, 2023: Presentation by Johann Čas: „Artificial Intelligence“ and social sustainability Ethical principles for AI technologies as solutions for reducing poverty and inequality? with ITA- ÖAW, FGV
- January 24, 2023: Presentation by Ingrid Schneider: Digital Sovereignty and Data Governance in Times of Geopolitical Rivalry with UHAM, RIS
- December 14, 2022: Presentation by Ariel Macaspac Hernandez: Impressions from the Field Research on the Potential Role of Digitalization in Curbing Food Waste and Loss (FWL) with IDOS, FGV
- October 1, 2021 – Presentation by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg onCan digital platforms be democratically regulated? with Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil
- November 16, 2021 – Presentation by Benjamin Stewart, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS) on Open Science: Epistemologies, science policy implementation and digitalisation with Instituto Mora, Mexico City
- November 25, 2021 – Presentation by Ingrid Schneider, University of Hamburg on Convergence and divergence in global data protection law with King’s College London
- December 7, 2021 – Presentation by Simone Lucatello, Instituto Mora on Digitalisation and Sustainability with the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
- June 15, 2021 – Midterm Review Meeting with European Commission
- May 10-12, 2021 – Presentation by Ingrid Schneider for the session, “Taming Digital Capitalism – But How?” at the NTA9-TA21 conference “Digital, direct, democratic? Technology Assessment and the Future of Democracy” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Technology Assessment (OEAW-ITA), Vienna
- April 13, 2021 – Steering Committee Meeting (Setting the 2021 Agenda)
- New online event series by EU network PRODIGEES on digitalisation and climate change
- February 23, 2021 @ 15:15 CET – Global citizenship and digital learning. A workshop presented by MGG & PRODIGEES for the digitainable Forum with the Bonn Sustainability Alliance.
- February 17, 2021 – Digital but Still Unequal, with Dr. Juan Carlos Domínguez Virgen. A webinar in collaboration with CIFE.
- January 21, 2021 – Climate Change and Digitalisation. socio-economic and environmental dynamics in communities, Webinar in collaboration with Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
- December 15, 2020 – Steering Committee Meeting (Setting the 2021 Agenda)
- December 10, 2020 – Climate change and digitalization. Setting the context, Webinar in collaboration with Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)
- November 12, 2020 – Digital, but still Unequal: the Challenges of Digitalisation for Emerging Powers – Mexico, Virtual Workshop
- May 27, 2020 – Steering Committee Meeting (Response to Covid-19)
- March 30, 2020 – PRODIGEES – Digitalisation and Sustainability, Virtual Kickoff Meeting of the project
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