re:publica 17 - All Sessions

Like newspapers, radio and television, the Internet can be used as a tool for opinion-shaping in the hands of either the left or the right. Two administrators from Socialist Meme Caucus discuss philosophical, artistic & political challenges in using social networks to their best potential.

Sreowshi Sinha, Maya Indira Ganesh Sreowshi will give insights on the particularities of the IoT market in India. Together with her interview partner from Tactical Technology Collective she will discuss difficulties and opportunities in building a critical consciousness for data protection and ownership of technologies can be developed amongst the Indian consumers.  

In this session award-winning film director Ng’endo Mukii will talk about her virtual reality film ‘Nairobi Berries’ and give us an insight into the filmmaking/VR scene in Africa. The session will be introduced by the European Film Market of the Berlinale, which hosts a platform for collaboration between the African and the international film industry.

Paul Feigelfeld Digital warfare from highly complex and clandestine weapons systems like Stuxnet to brute force DDoS attacks like the recent ones carried out by the Mirai botnet, to algorithmic manipulation à la Cambridge Analytica call for highly urgent reforms in international law and war conventions, as well as new forms of critical practice and theory in all fields and across all disciplines.

Whereas contemporary states, societies and citizens are said to be interconnected and interdependent as never before in human history, North Korea appears as a sui generis void in international relations; a place beyond the realm of comprehension, being neither a part of our world nor of our era (…). The visuality of showing a dark North Korea serves as a discursive marker of difference...

The internet has created new possibilities for online learning and universal access to the collections of museums, archives and libraries. Europe is discussing an update of its copyright laws that has the potential to remove some of the limitations to those activities. But unless we are able to change what is on the table, Europe will be stuck with inflexible rules. In this session we will discuss the opportunities to make copyright fit for education and culture in the 21st century.

Transformational Confidence - Designing the human role in the age of artificial intelligence.

Arbeit 4.0 ist längst Realität: Algorithmen suchen für Unternehmen nach den besten Kandidaten. Künstliche Intelligenz hilft den Mitarbeitern, schneller und besser Entscheidungen zu treffen. Und der neue Kollege heißt Roboter. Zukunftsmusik?

Do you have to abandon your right to privacy every morning at the doors of your workplace? Can your employer monitor private chats with your family? Based on research projects at the Centre for Internet and Human Rights, we will unpack the issue of digital surveillance at work and discuss regulatory gaps and potential policy responses.

Deflect has been at the forefront protecting human rights and independent media organizations from Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks. We will give a brief history of DDoS, from digital civil disobedience, to inter-state aggression, retaliatory hacker operations, and online censorship. Leaning on real-life cases we will describe the problems posed to civil society by DDoS actions today. We will involve the audience to share their experience of DDoS and propose community driven solutions.