tech policy
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The WEF interviewed me about the Data Detox Kit as part of a short video on privacy in the digital age.
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Invited to give a seminar on content and platform regulation as part of the digital / tech policy programme at Harvard Kennedy School. Read more.
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Gave a short presentation on “IoT, GDPR and the Luxury to Disconnect.” Watch Video.
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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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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…
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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…
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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.
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Robotics, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, human-implanted sensors and so much more that most of us can’t even picture yet: Technological developments have changed our ways of life. And they will continue to do so, with consequences that are difficult to anticipate. Nobody knows what the world is going to look like…
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Joined a panel with Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones (DCMG), Michelle Dennedy (Cisco), and Susanne Tillqvist (EY) to discuss “Dangerous intersections: technology / privacy / security / surveillance.” Read more. Speakers.
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Inequality is one of the defining challenges of our time. The open Web can help to reduce inequality – social, political, economic and gender – and drive progress. But increasing centralisation and control online threatens to consolidate power in the hands of a few, largely unaccountable, gatekeepers and leave the rest of us behind. That…
Cathleen Berger 