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News these days are abuzz with takes on Europe’s need and ambitions around digital sovereignty. But one thing often missing, if not entirely omitted in these debates: environmental sustainability. Gaël Duez and I recorded the latest Green IO podcast episode in September and even then, we couldn’t not talk about Digital Sovereignty and how political
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I really felt that it was time for a change. And the timing couldn’t have been better: In July, I joined the team of the Deputy Chair of the Digital Committee in the German parliament, Anna Lührmann, initially as senior advisor on digital policy. I’ve since moved into a more expanded role as head of
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“Wer killt den Klimaschutz?” fragte mich Zsolt Wilhelm vom Der Standard in 3.000m Höhe auf der Zugspitze. Meine Antwort: der falsche Kompromiss. Wenn in der Debatte um den Klimaschutz, die “radikalsten” Stimmen diejenigen sind, die nichts anderes tun, als den globalen Minimalkonsens der Klimawissenschaft für die Allgemeinheit zu übersetzen, dann greift jeder vermeintliche Kompromiss zwangsläufig
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Research. Celebrate. Reset. Two and a half years ago, our Upgrade Democracy team started to investigate promising and successful strategies to mitigate disinformation. Thanks to dozens of fantastic research partners, we were able to grow, adjust our focus, and challenge common assumptions. In September 2024, we celebrated the community by bringing together 100+ people from
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In the margins of the AI Action Summit in Paris (February 2025), I had the pleasure of joining an invite-only transatlantic funders meeting, where some 50 people discussed current investment and philantropic strategies and opportunities to better collaborate. The candid atmosphere was genuinely motivating and a slate of new initiatives were launched and/or announced in
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Building on two years of research and all the insights our team gathered in the course of our work together, Kai Unzicker and I condensed our thinking into a policy brief that outlines 10 ideas for better dealing with the challenges of disinformation. We took the opportunity to present these ideas during an international networking
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Am 4. September 2024 fand in der Vertretung des Freistaats Thüringen beim Bund in Berlin die Veranstaltung “Populär oder populistisch? Debatten und Diskurse in Europas Demokratien” statt. Diese gemeinsame Veranstaltung der Europäischen Akademie Berlin (EAB) und der Landesvertretung bot den mehr als 100 Teilnehmenden eine Plattform für tiefgehende Diskussionen und Analysen über die Herausforderungen und
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Updated to provide all 8 links. Two years ago, we were tasked with exploring a new field of research and activities for the Bertelsmann Stiftung: countering disinformation. We launched Upgrade Democracy and set out to explore various angles and topics, but most importantly potential opportunities to fill critical gaps. The questions we asked ourselves included:
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Disinformation does not stop at borders. Countermeasures must therefore be just as international and interlinked. But are they? As part of Upgrade Democracy, we investigated this question in close cooperation with regional research partners in order to gain an overview of the global landscape of anti-disinformation initiatives and to identify commonalities and differences that will
Cathleen Berger 