international relations
-
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.
-
Invited to give a seminar on content and platform regulation as part of the digital / tech policy programme at Harvard Kennedy School. Read more.
-
Keynote zum Thema “Open Source, Privatsphäre und Datensicherheit: Strategien für die digitale Bildung.” Mehr Informationen.
-
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.
-
Joined a panel on geopolitical responses to misinformation with George Brock, Professor of Journalism, City University London; Dan Shefet, Attorney, Cabinet Shefet; and Claire Wardle, Strategy & Research Director, First Draft News as moderator. Read more here.
-
Berlin is a mad city. Germany’s capital is pockmarked with tattoos, scars, and statues to its paradoxical past. A city notorious for its history, where invasive surveillance and the urge for freedom clasped hands during a shift change at the border control between East and West. Today the world pulls up a chair to relish
-
The United Nations General Assembly just held its 72nd session in New York City. Leaders from all over the world were in town, including representatives from the 193 UN governments, as well as businesses and civil society. Apart from the main UNGA, there were plenty of other high-level gatherings organised in the margins — several of these
-
National elections in September 2017. All things come to a halt; political attention is directed towards campaigning. Not so in Germany these days. In a flurry of decisions, Germany has been busy shaping a comprehensive digital agenda — with an increasing number of global implications. Read full post.
-
Am 12. Januar 2017 habe ich auf Einladung zum GIZ-Mitarbeitertag der Gruppe Governance und Menschenrechte in Bonn diesen Vortrag als Denkanstoß gehalten und anschließend diskutiert. Demokratie funktioniert nur dann, wenn sie von informierten, mündigen Bürgern getragen wird. 2016 war in diesem Sinne kein leichtes und schon gar kein euphorisches Jahr: Brexit, Trump, die Flüchtlingskrise und
Cathleen Berger 