human rights

  • Moderation: FoME Symposium, Berlin

    “Manipulation of Public Opinion in Social Media: Actors, Trends, Counter-strategies” — this wasn’t exactly an easy to digest or necessarily uplifting topic, but it has been a great pleasure quizzing Lisa-Maria Neudert, John Jal Dak, and Amber Macintyre about their research and insights into the various complexities of (social) media capture during the Forum Media

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  • Panel: Internet Governance Forum, Paris

    On November 12, I was joined by Ephraim Kenyanito, Shashank Mohan, and Solana Larsen at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to talk about whether it has become a luxury to disconnect during the 2018 Internet Governance Forum. It was a fantastic, insightful panel, one with plenty of personal stories sharing our individual passions to protect

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  • AMA: Mozfest House, London, UK

    On October 23, I had the pleasure to host Moritz Riesewieck, one of the directors of the award-winning documentary “The Cleaners” at the RSA in London. As part of Mozfest House, we screened the documentary to a very interested, knowledgeable audience and invited them in the following “Ask me Anything” session to think about potential

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  • Keynote: Smart City Arena, Frankfurt am Main

    Am 18. September war ich eingeladen auf dem 12. Bundeskongress für nationale Stadtentwicklungspolitik zum Thema “Datenschutz und Smart Cities” zu sprechen. Die Möglichkeit, mich in diesen Aspekt von Digitalisierung — insbesondere aus dem Blickwinkel von “Luxury To Disconnect” — einzuarbeiten, war höchst interessant, weshalb ich den Beitrag auch veröffentliche. Die Verschriftlichung meines Vortrages ist hier

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  • Keynote: GIZ Fachtage 2018

    Vortrag zum Thema “Digitalisierung: Auswirkungen auf Governance und Konflikt?”.

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  • Panel: CyFy Africa, Tangier

    Panel with Samir Saran, Ephraim Kenyanito, Sean Kanuck, and Fuoad Mouhyi on “How Personal is your data: surveillance capitalism and democracy in the 21st century?” Read more.

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  • Panel: hub.berlin, Berlin

    Joined a panel with Léa Steinacker (Wirtschaftswoche), Dr. Christoph Beier (GIZ), MD Miguel Berger (Federal Foreign Office) to discuss the potential for developing an international digital agenda. Watch video.

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  • Article: Human rights aren’t enough any more — we need a new strategy

    We must recognise dissent as a bedrock of a healthy society, without which there can be no creativity, innovation, disruption, progress and — crucially — democracy. Read full piece on openDemocracy.

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Cathleen Berger