3 years of working with Stiftung Mercator — some personal highlights
For the last 3 years, I worked with Stiftung Mercator‘s Digital Society program as an advisor. My mandate there is coming to a natural end point — I was…
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re:publica is a wrap
This week I attended re:publica, Germany’s most relevant tech & society conference. I’ve been going since year 1 (2007) — not every year, and often not for the…
New report out now: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field
We just published a new report about the state of digital civil society in Germany: Digital Civil Society — A Maturing Field (PDF)Published April 2024. Copyright Stiftung Mercator. Author…
Some thoughts after Mercator Forum
I’m on my way back home from Essen where I attended Mercator Forum, the foundation’s annual convening of its stakeholders, communities and grantee partners. This year it was…
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A whole bunch of links [newsletter]
Note: This is cross-posted from my newsletter, to which you can subscribe here. x Hey hey, So I just realized that an earlier draft of this had been…
Are social platforms a bit like fossil energy after all?
I never subscribed to narrative that Data is the New Oil — i.e. it’s highly valuable and a tradable commodity. Nor that it’s like oil in that it…
Thanks and Happy Holidays: That was 2023
This is end-of-year post #16 (all prior ones here). Turns out I’ve been writing these end-of-year posts for over a decade and a half! Who knew… Anyway, what…