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Digital Discourses

No state, no society, no business, and no individual is untouched by digital transformation. There are more and greater technological and social possibilities than ever before. Communication, education, knowledge production, markets, and work are undergoing deep changes in increasingly shorter cycles. At the same time, new technologies and the emergence of a new economic system evolving from this digital transformation are posing social, ethical and political challenges that need to be explored and negotiated.

While these “great upheavals” of our time are being discussed around the globe, the thematic focus of the discussions and the common viewpoints can vary significantly from society to society and from region to region. With this in mind, Goethe-Institut Indonesien, Center for Digital Society (CfDS), ELSAM, and ICT Watch are conducting a series of mini-conferences in 2019 and 2020 that is aiming to stir a debate about the impact digital transformation has on individuals as well as on economics, politics, society, and the ecology.

Total transparency? Privacy in the Age of Data Capitalism

Large parts of our lives are captured in the data trails we leave online. Who tracks them and how are they monetized? Experts from Southeast Asia and Germany discuss data privacy in the digital realm plus concepts of regulation. More


Between Freedom and Restriction: Hoaxes and Extremism in the Internet

Fake news, black campaigns, online radicalization, hate speech, content filters: nearly every society in the world has experienced the negative side effects of our hyper-connected, digital communication systems.

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The right to your own self
 Reclaiming the Corporate Owned Self

“In a world where every atom can be addressable with an IP address (IP6), discussion of the possibility of capturing analogue things is increasingly less relevant. What becomes critical is the question of who captures and controls what data owned by whom.”

Internet café with a woman and a baby Photo (detail): John Moore/Getty Images

Digital Divide
 Decolonize the Internet

The internet is characterised by power structures. Digital colonialism shows how established hierarchies can also become entrenched on the World Wide Web. But activists and artists are growing increasingly resistant.

Jan Philipp Albrecht has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009. Photo (detail): © Fritz Schumann

Privacy and Digitalisation
 “Facebook is not the same as your living room”

Social media, smartphones, the Internet of Things – whatever happened to privacy? Or has privacy become an outdated idea? This is a conversation with Jan Philipp Albrecht, a staunch advocate of data protection.

Crossing a red light: Traffic offenders in China are named and shamed. Photo (detail): @ picture alliance/dpa-Zentralbild/Klaus Grabowski

Algorithmic Governance
 Total surveillance

Algorithms that reward or penalise the citizens of a country on the basis of collated data – in places like China and India, “algorithmic governance” has long been a reality. But even in Germany, computer software already takes decisions that have consequences for many people’s lives.

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