Stiftung Mercator launches new digital policy think tank “Agora Digitale Transformation”
It’s time to pull back the curtain on a project I’m extremely happy I’ve had the opportunity to work on for the last year or so: A new…
Category: digital rights
UN Habitat Playbook “Centering People in Smart Cities”
UN Habitat launched a new series of playbooks as part of its People Centered Smart Cities flagship program. I was happy to be a peer reviewer last year…
Our upcoming RightsCon session
For the upcoming RightsCon, I’m co-hosting a joint session with Stiftung Mercator (who I work with) and European AI Fund (who I served as interim director for recently,…
Will Europe be able to enforce the new internet regulation frameworks DMA and DSA?
Europe is revamping internet regulation as we know it, with ambitious (if, in some areas, dangerously vague) new rights acts Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act…
A limit of openness: Controlling data flows
Openness has been a founding pillar of the web: open source, open data, free culture all have been driving forces for a thriving internet. Increasingly, we’re seeing the…
A first glimpse at the new German government roadmap
Germany has a new governing coalition—and with this 3 party combination of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens (B90/Grüne) and Liberals (FDP), it’s a first. I was skeptical about the…
We need to transition to clean advertisement
We need to move from dirty advertising to clean advertising. The best way to do so is to ditch personalized ads and move towards content-based ads. Just like…