Day 1

Track 1 “Digital Sovereignty: Terms, concepts and limitations”
Panel 1 “Economic, organizational and individual practices of digital sovereignty”

Track Chairs: Thorsten Thiel and Julia Pohle

  • Andreas Polk and Oliver Budzinski: “Tearing them apart – Does divestiture increase competition in digital markets?”  
  • Christian Herzog and Daniela Zetti: “Digitally aided sovereignty – A suitable guide for the e-Government transformation?” Abstract
  • Laura Suna: “Migrants‘ awareness and imaginaries of discrimination by Artificial Intelligence. A conceptual framework for analysing digital literacy” Abstract
  • Carolin Wienrich, Astrid Carolus and Marc Erich Latoschik: “How to enable sovereign human-AI interactions at work? Concepts of graspable testbeds empowering people to understand and competently use AI-Systems” Abstract

“Quasselstrippe/Chatterbox”

Quasselstrippe/Chatterbox is a tool to support dialogues. Based on the idea of the tin can telephone, our tool is a digital voice interface to collect and process wishes, questions and comments. In the first part of the workshop, we will collect questions and come up with a dialogical framework. After that, we will assemble and configure the Chatterboxes. The fully assembled Chatterboxes will be presented in the exhibition of the Weizenbaum Conference. The answers provided by users are transcripted and may be displayed anonymously.

Lutz Reiter, Malte Bergmann and Tomma Suki Hinrichsen

 in cooperation with the “Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung)”

Welcome: Christoph Neuberger and Gesche Joost (Weizenbaum Institute)
Keynote: Mario Brandenburg (Parliamentary Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
Welcoming remarks: Armaghan Naghipour (Permanent Secretary for Higher Education, Research and Gender Equality at the Berlin Senate Department for Higher Education and Research, Health, Long-term Care and Gender Equality)
Organizational remarks: Scientific Organizers

“A sovereign technology needs “open knowledge” as a design principle.” 

14:45-15:15 – Coffee and snacks
15:15-15:30 – Opening and presentation of the exhibition

“Beyond Prediction: Data reflections ​​from me to us”

In this workshop, we consider problems of digital data, starting with data that is constantly collected about our bodies and health. Read more

Kit Kuksenok, Minha Lee and Christel De Maeyer

 in cooperation with the “Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung)”

Track 1 “Digital Sovereignty: Terms, concepts and limitations”
Panel 2 “Conceptual perspectives on digital sovereignty”

Track Chairs: Thorsten Thiel and Julia Pohle

  • Stephan Kreutzer and Manual Molina Vogelsang: “Europe’s digital sovereignty – an international political economy conceptual approach” Abstract
  • Ana Pop Stefanija and Jo Pierson: “Agency affordances for embedding and practicing digital sovereignty” Abstract
  • Aisha Paulina Lami Kadiri: “The (im)possibilities of digital sovereignty in digital colonialism” Abstract
  • Daniel Lambach and Linda Monsees: “Don’t panic? European digital sovereignty and the fragmentation of the internet” Abstract

Track 2 “Digital literacies and inequalities”
Panel 1 “Socio-technical developments and practices of empowerment”

Track Chairs: Bianca Herlo and Stefan Ullrich

  • Invited Talk with Claude Draude: “Reconfiguring Participation and Power Relations in Sociotechnical Systems Design”
  • Hagit Keysar and Eran Fisher: “New forms of struggle over distributed virtual sovereignty in urban settings” Abstract
  • Ariel Guersenzvaig: “Machine learning, health, and the end of theory” Abstract
  • Lucas Lasota: “REUSE: Making copyright and licensing compliance easier for everyone” Abstract
  • Alexander Smit, Joëlle Swart and Marcel Broersma: “Digital inclusion of low-literate adults: The sequential underpinnings of the digital divide” Abstract

“Neues (digitales) Gemeinwohl” (in German)

In den 1990er Jahren schien das Internet der Ort eines neuen Gemeinwohls werden zu können, der den Zugang zu Wissen, die Möglichkeit der Partizipation und die Überwindung physischer Grenzen bedeutete. Heute zeigt sich eine tiefe digitale und soziale Spaltung der Gesellschaft, die eine rein technische Idee des Internets nicht überwinden konnte. Braucht es einen neuen Anlauf für das Gemeinwohl in einer Gesellschaft, die sich auf ökologische, soziale und ökonomische Nachhaltigkeit ausrichten möchte? Wie wird das Gemeinwohl verhandelt, im Digitalen wie im Analogen? Welche Rolle kann das Gemeinwohl vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Krisen in Europa und global spielen?

Anhand dieser Fragestellungen führt Gesche Joost ein Gespräch mit Ulrich Lilie (Diakinie Deutschland), Susanna Krüger (Bcause) und Harald Schmitz (Bank für Sozialwirtschaft), in dem die Panelisten:innen aus ihren jeweiligen Rollen und Positionen argumentieren können – z.B. zur Bedeutung eines neuen Gemeinwohls in der Gesellschaft, zur Sozialwirtschaft im Speziellen, zur Finanzierung und zum Impact, und auch zur Frage, was wir dafür brauchen. 

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