re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions

re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions

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re:publica 18 - Alle Sessions episodes

  • Blockchain: Digital Identities for Everyone?
    2 billion people worldwide are without a passport. Your identity acts as enabler to accessing education, jobs, financial inclusion, and many other governmental and business services. But how far can the individual decide what happens with their data?
    India's centralized identity solution Aadhaar has shown great merits, but its centralized architecture poses risks of data leaks.
    This session discusses blockchain-based solutions for self-sovereign identity, looks at their potential decentralizing personal data management from the perspective of German and European principles of privacy and informational self-determination, and contextualizese their potential use for vulnerable populations in developing economies and refugees.
    • Andreas Proksch
    • Marit Hansen
    • Andrew Tobin
    • Franz von Weizsäcker

    Whether you open a bank account, obtain health services, register your car, file a complaint, apply for a job or travel for holidays -- in the rich world, identification credentials are part of our daily lives enabling us to be an active member of society and the economy. 

    In developing and emerging economies, or for refugees, identification credentials often play a vital role for social and economic empowerment on one side, but at the same time they can expose individuals to risks for their safety and security, be it identifying them as war deserters, or as members of a minority, or being excluded for their sexual orientation or medical background. 

    Andreas Proksch, Director-General of GIZ's new Sector and Global Programmes Department, will open the session by outlining the importance of identity management in the context of international development cooperation.

    The potentials for informational self-determination and potential pitfalls will be discussed by Marit Hansen, the Head of the Independent Centre for Data Protection (ULD) and the Data Protection Commissioner of Schleswig-Holstein.

    Andrew Tobin, founder of Evernym, will finally talk about the potential of self-sovereign identities, privacy enhancing technologies as well as the non-profit open source platform sovrin.org.

    While this session provides an entry point to the discussion, we invite participants to join a workshop to develop ideas around applications of self-sovereign identity in development cooperation with GIZ and other experts.

    supported by BMZ

    27 min
  • Perspectives from developing countries - It’s the End of the work as we know It (and I feel fine)!
    In the coming years, the increasing automation of tasks will cost jobs whilst at the same time new job profiles emerge in the digital sector. This trend changes how people live and work worldwide and will disrupt major industries in developing countries. It truly is the end of work as we know it. So how can we ensure that developing countries will be fine? Is it enough to provide access and digital skills? We want to leverage partnerships and prepare governments to react to these developments.
    [Partnersession]
    • Mark Graham
    • Amel Saidane
    • Dorothy Gordon
    • Richard David Precht

    In the upcoming years, the increasing automation of tasks will most likely cost hundreds of thousands of jobs, disrupting major industries. Developing countries will be especially affected by the digital transformation of work. At the same time, more and more people enter the job market and turn online to find jobs, as the offline market is less promising. Here, job seekers in developing countries compete on a global virtual job market for short term freelance work. To date, binding international agreements on labour rights and social security are missing. The cheaper, the better – no chance to complain.

    BUT: The digital economy will also create new job profiles and entire new industries that are beyond todays imagination. It will open new markets and provide higher wages compared to local jobs in developing countries. Online platforms promise more objectivity, inclusivity and flexibility to everyone who is connected and has access to the job market from anywhere in the world.

    Yes, digital transformation changes how people live and work in developing countries. It truly is the end of the work as we know it. So how can we ensure that developing countries will be fine? Is it enough to provide access and digital literacy skills? We want to leverage partnerships and prepare governments to react to these disrupting megatrends. The time to act is now and we are all in charge!

    57 min
  • Opening Fireside Chat with Chelsea Manning
    Chelsea Manning in an intimate interview situation with Geraldine de Bastion and Theresa Züger.
    One year after her release, we aim to discuss about hippies and the Silicon Valley; the social, technological and economic impact of artificial intelligence, practical applications of machine learning and the responsibility of developers in regards to technology and politics. Also:Hannah Arendt, civil disobedience, radical politics and the consequences of an uncontrollable state power.
    • Chelsea Manning
    • Theresa Züger
    • Geraldine de Bastion

    tba

    1 hr
  • Opening Keynote: How an Algorithmic World Can Be Undermined
    Algorithmic technologies that rely on data don’t necessarily support a social world that many of us want to live in. We must grapple with the biases embedded in and manipulation of these systems, particularly when so many parts of society are dependent on sociotechnical systems.
    • danah boyd

    Data-driven and algorithmic systems increasingly underpin many decision-making systems, shaping where law enforcement agents are stationed and what news you are shown through social media.

    The design of these systems is inscribed with organizational and cultural values. Often, these systems also depend on the behavior of everyday people, who may not act as expected.

    Meanwhile, adversarial actors may seek to manipulate the data upon which these systems are built for personal, political, and economic reasons.

    All of these factors can result in biased, if not harmful technology. As technology is integrated into every part of society, recognizing and grappling with the potential vulnerabilities that emerge is essential. In this talk, danah will interrogate some of the challenges that result from sociotechnical systems, going deep into how technology can be a tool to undermine many aspects of society that we hold dear. 

     

    54 min
  • Eröffnungspanel: Die Revolution disst ihre Kinder – alte Linke, neue Rechte und das Internet
    Am 2.5. 68 stand die BRD kurz vor den Notstandsgesetzen. Die Aufständischen waren the real smiling evil, bereit alle Türen einzurennen, die ihnen schon längst offenstanden und den Muff unter Talaren, auf Bildschirmen und aus dem Springerturm zu vertreiben.
    Inmitten von Plastik und Popkultur hat nicht nur eine politische Transformation stattgefunden, sondern auch eine mediale. Ohne Redaktionsstäbe, Rotationsmaschinen, Rundfunk- und Fernsehstudios gelang es, eine Gegenöffentlichkeit aufzubauen. 50 Jahre später ist diese Pluralität schmerzhafte Normalität. Denn sie muss einiges aushalten, was sie abschaffen will. Zuletzt: Den Aufstieg der Neuen Rechten im Netz und den Kommentarspalten.
    • Friedemann Karig
    • Stefan Niggemeier
    • Samira El Ouassil
    • Nils Markwardt

    Nachdem alle Gatekeeper ihren Hut im Internet nahmen, man der Meinungsfreiheit nur noch mit NwDG beikommt und die Welt Pop ist, fragen wir: Welche Ideen der 68 sprechen auch 50 Jahre später noch zu uns- vor allem als Memes? 

    Was sind heute pop(ästhetische) Kernfragen und -Formen? Findet die Revolte nur noch in Foren statt, oder auch auf Buchmessen? Und warum schreiben ein paar der (Netz-)Intellektuellen eigentlich nicht mehr gegen, sondern für rechts?

    In einer einstündigen Revue geht es um Emanzipationsbewegungen und Minderheiten in der Medienproduktion, Diskursräume und Hebel, Rechte Memes und alte Linke. Und vor allem darum, was am Gegenwartsnetz eigentlich das Problem ist. Und was Satire darf.

    PanelteilnehmerInnenkurve stetig ansteigend.
     

    1 hr

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