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Shaping our Digital Future @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025
Keynote - Building just, sovereign, and sustainable digital systems
Donald Trump is back in the White House, and this time through an alliance with
the billionaires of Silicon Valley. For years, concerns about the harms and
drawbacks of our dependence on US technology and tech companies have been
growing, but the relationship between tech and the extreme right make them
undeniable. Now more than ever, we must accelerate efforts toward digital
sovereignty, not just to build European alternatives, but to challenge the very
model on which digital technology has been built in recent decades.
In this keynote presentation, Paris Marx will lay out the argument for digital
sovereignty and how the Trump administration’s upending of the geopolitical
consensus creates opportunities to chart a different path and form new
relationships to collaborate on a renewed vision for digital technology that
better serves the public.
He will explain the necessity of a two-pronged approach that combines more
aggressive regulatory enforcement paired with efforts to imagine and realize an
alternative digital infrastructure. While this includes platforms and services,
it must also consider the physical manifestations of the network we all depend
on. As major cloud and AI companies make an aggressive push to build
resource-hungry hyperscale data centres, we must ask whether all that
computation is really necessary. How do we chart not just a more just and
equitable future, but a more sustainable one too?
Speakers:
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/shaping-our-digital-future
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By Keynote - Building just, sovereign, and sustainable digital systems
Donald Trump is back in the White House, and this time through an alliance with
the billionaires of Silicon Valley. For years, concerns about the harms and
drawbacks of our dependence on US technology and tech companies have been
growing, but the relationship between tech and the extreme right make them
undeniable. Now more than ever, we must accelerate efforts toward digital
sovereignty, not just to build European alternatives, but to challenge the very
model on which digital technology has been built in recent decades.
In this keynote presentation, Paris Marx will lay out the argument for digital
sovereignty and how the Trump administration’s upending of the geopolitical
consensus creates opportunities to chart a different path and form new
relationships to collaborate on a renewed vision for digital technology that
better serves the public.
He will explain the necessity of a two-pronged approach that combines more
aggressive regulatory enforcement paired with efforts to imagine and realize an
alternative digital infrastructure. While this includes platforms and services,
it must also consider the physical manifestations of the network we all depend
on. As major cloud and AI companies make an aggressive push to build
resource-hungry hyperscale data centres, we must ask whether all that
computation is really necessary. How do we chart not just a more just and
equitable future, but a more sustainable one too?
Speakers:
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/shaping-our-digital-future