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Politics & Society
Reflections on the change of societies and political dynamics due to digitization are at the core of the re:publica programme. We are interested in shifting power balances, in societal change and civic digital action. At re:publica we want to talk about what we need to do for a free and open Internet and its relation to the shifting political paradigms on the continent. We want to explore the intersections of technology with politics and society.
In this track we will discuss surveillance technologies, data and privacy protection, e-privacy, Internet shutdowns and net neutrality. We will look at community networks, the effects of AI on society, digital disobedience, as well as new governance models aided by digital technologies.
We invite activists, civil society representatives, researchers and all persons with experience in these topics to help us examine the interplay of technology and society on a philosophical level as well as on the day-to-day basis. We’ll explore the opportunities of civic tech and debate the state of Internet freedom - based on your contributions. Questions we would like to see tackled e.g. include: How do social media platforms influence the shaping of political opinions? How are movements and communities for Internet freedom, digital democracy and open data developing? What social and legislative processes should be initiated to regulate an ever accelerating automation? Can the blockchain deliver on its promise of revolutionizing governance processes?
- Politics & SocietyPOPCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Es ist faszinierend: Ausgerechnet Rechtspopulisten führen digitale Rankings an, einschlägige Fake News erzielen Aufmerksamkeitsrekorde. Tatsächlich hat die neue Rechte in etlichen Ländern eine eigene Netzkultur etabliert - mit eigenen Memes, eigenen Kampfbegriffen und einer neuen Geschichtserzählung. Der Vortrag wird Einblick in diese neue Kultur geben und was man aus ihrem Erfolg lernen kann, wenn man das Netz nicht den Rechten überlassen möchte
- Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Almost half of the world’s population are online by now. But online experiences differ greatly, depending on income, geography and gender. In fragile contexts, internet usage is often constrained by power outages, high costs and a lack of digital skills. The session discusses how civil society organizations in South Sudan, Lebanon and Pakistan use digital skills training to teach women and girls how to navigate the internet safely and take full advantage of its opportunities.
- Politics & SocietyTech for Good-Once freed of the tyranny of the Twitter timeline, how we would look to ourselves? How a custom made data visualization could raise awareness on our echo chambers and the ones in our public institutions and in our elected officials? In this data clinic, the participants will be able to export/scrap and visualize in original ways, their own public Twitter data (or the one of public institutions and elected officials) to answer such questions and they also will raise and share new ones and tentative answers.
- Politics & SocietyCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Geheimdienste sind eine Blackbox: Ihr Handeln ist naturgemäß intransparent. Sie zu verklagen, ist entsprechend kompliziert. Reporter ohne Grenzen und die Berliner Kanzlei Härting haben den BND wegen illegaler Überwachung verklagt – und in Teilen Recht bekommen! „Das Urteil ist die vielleicht schärfste juristische Folge des NSA-Skandals in Deutschland“, schrieb die taz. In ihrem Talk berichten Anwalt Christof Elßner und ROG-Geschäftsführer Christian Mihr: Was sind Strategien, um Geheimdienste vor Gericht zu bringen?
- Politics & SocietyPOPCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Kanzlerduell 2017: Obwohl es hauptsächlich um Einwanderung, Geflüchtete und „den Islam" geht, diskutieren sechs „weiße“ Deutsche über die Zukunft der Bundesrepublik. Es ist keine Seltenheit, dass People of Color und religiöse Minderheiten bei entscheidenden Debatten nicht mitreden können. Das muss sich ändern. Wie baut man eine (digitale) Pressure Group auf, die ernst genommen wird? Was sind die Argumente dafür, dass es ohne Vertreter*innen von Minderheiten nicht geht?
- Politics & Society-After having had an inspiring session at the re:publica Thessaloniki last year with insights from Greece, Italy, Croatia and Belgium - we go on with listening, debating and questioning the challenges and chances of digital societies in Europe.
- Politics & Society-Im Dezember 2016 hat die Bundesregierung ihre Teilnahme an der Open Government Partnership (OGP) offiziell verkündet. Aufbauend auf Empfehlungen aus der Zivilgesellschaft wurde 2017 der erste nationale Aktionsplan verabschiedet. Unser Netzwerk begleitet die Umsetzung und lebt von eurem zivilgesellschaftlichen Input - von Open Data bis Beteiligung. Wie kann die Open Government Partnership für eure bestehende Arbeit genutzt werden und unsere Demokratie insgesamt partizipativer gestalten?
- Politics & SocietyPOPCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Egal ob in der Politik, Facebook-Kommentaren, Sportstadien oder der Wirtschaft: Es gibt nur noch Schwarz oder Weiß, ein "Du bist für mich" oder "Du bist gegen mich". Woher rührt diese Polarisierung? Können wir sie zurückdrehen und wieder zu rationalen Debatten zurückkehren – oder müssen wir lernen, mit ihr zu leben?
- Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Video games have become more accessible to more people, now more than ever. It's now the primary medium where people voluntarily spend time and engage other people even without materialistic motives. In 2013, Spil Games reported that 1.2 billion people are now playing games worldwide, with 700 million of those online. That number has since increased, dramatically.
In the last couple of years, the world saw the rise of social impact games such as Mini Metro, Papers Please, Democracy, This War of Mine. These games have had critically acclaim and are commercially successful without compromising their chosen advocacies.
Given the positive impact it could generate worldwide, juxtaposed with the world as we know it today, there is a an urgent need to develop more and more social impact games to serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational initiatives. - Politics & SocietyPOPCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-Warum sind Fake-News so populär im Netz vertreten und was hat unsere Identität und unser Wertegerüst damit zu tun? Warum kann man emotionale Debatten (Impfen, Fleischkonsum, Geschlechterfragen) nicht nur mit reinen Fakten klären? Welche Rolle spielen populäre Vorbilder, die sogenannten Influencer? Wie kann das Netz wieder - ganz im Sinne von "Power to the People" - wieder zu einem Instrument der Aufklärung und Machtverteilung werden? Und was würde Karl Popper eigentlich zu all dem sagen?
- Politics & SocietyTech for GoodCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-2 billion people worldwide are without a passport. Your identity acts as enabler to accessing education, jobs, financial inclusion, and many other governmental and business services. But how far can the individual decide what happens with their data?
India's centralized identity solution Aadhaar has shown great merits, but its centralized architecture poses risks of data leaks.
This session discusses blockchain-based solutions for self-sovereign identity, looks at their potential decentralizing personal data management from the perspective of German and European principles of privacy and informational self-determination, and contextualizese their potential use for vulnerable populations in developing economies and refugees.
- Politics & SocietyCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)-A divide is facing the world: Identity. More than a billion people lack the most basic identity papers, mainly in the global South and mainly women and children. This hinders institutions like the government, aid organization and banks to recognize or even reach these people. Among them are marginalized groups, such as asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants that because of their status and regulations like “Know Your Customer (KYC)” are effectively excluded from digital services. At the same time, parts of the private sector amass data about individuals and are able to establish a crypto identity and are, together with “libertarians”, promoting a digital paradigm for self-sovereign identity outside of State control. But, we need to recognize that any identity is made up by credentials and these credentials can and will inevitably change during the course of anyone’s life. Any appropriate solution has to consider this and at the same time prevent any powerful institutions from unfairly coercing individuals needing to be credentialed. So, how can we shape digitization in way that is inclusive and avoid it becoming an elitist process widening the gap between the haves and have-nots?
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