Digitally Confident

How do we assert ourselves in the digital society? Which tools do we have to master, which skills do we have to learn? ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe and the Goethe-Institut provide answers. Digital Confident provides food for thought and empowers people to take action.

Digital Souverän Aufmacher © ZKM Karlsruhe

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Digitally confident: how it works

Have you ever wondered what personal data you have already disclosed online today? What information Internet companies have collected about you? You don't know? Then you're like most of us. Nevertheless, it is crucial to know what risks you are being exposed to and how you can protect yourself against them. sovereignty means taking responsibility – digitally as well. It sounds exhausting, but it's not that difficult!

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Das Doppelleben

How do we develop into a competent, digital society?

We asked personalities who deal with digitization in Germany. Read their answers here.

Goethe-Institut initiatives worldwide

  • Klartexte

    It seems more and more difficult to distinguish facts from “alternative facts”, news from “fake news”, truth and lies. And plain text from the text? #Klartexte wants to promote attentive, unagitated and critical media consumption.

  • The Earth Is Flat – How to Read Media?

    Dealing confidently with digital information sources: "The Earth Is Flat - How to Read Media? by the Goethe-Institut Moscow supports young people, teachers and media experts in exactly this respect.

    How to read Social Media © Goethe-Institut Moskau © Goethe-Institut Moskau

  • Access for all: Open Data

    Government agencies publish data, members of the public can use them for their own purposes: this is the central concept behind the open data movement internationally. The Goethe-Institut Indonesia presents ways in which a culture of publically accessible data can emerge in Southeast Asia.

    Open Data Indonesien © Dwi Rahmanto © Dwi Rahmanto

  • Data Privacy in Five Minutes

    What do the private sphere and data privacy mean in the digital age? The theatre project P3M5, initiated by the Goethe-Institut USA, revolves around this question. Dramatists from the USA and Europe present their answers in 5-minute films.

    P3M5 © Goethe-Institut USA © Goethe-Institut USA

Cooperation with ZKM worldwide

  • Digital Culture Techniques

    Open Codes

    Open Codes in Mumbai Foto © Max Mueller Bhavan/ ZKM Foto © Max Mueller Bhavan/ ZKM

  • interactive exhibition

    Games and Politics

    Games and Politics Goethe-Institut Nancy Photo: Orwell © Osmotic Studios Photo: Orwell © Osmotic Studios

Responsible for project

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
Stefanie Strigl Digital Communication
Regina Hock Press Officer

Goethe-Institut
Christine Ruhland / Jörn Müller; Online Editors

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