“Visions for a Digital Europe 2025” Online conference Online conference How can we create a value-based European digital future that is innovative and internationally compatible at the same time? What influence can the EU have on the data-driven economy and digitised society through new legislative projects and further regulatory measures? These are some key questions debated at the online conference "Visions for a Digital Europe 2025", which took place on Wednesday 27 October 2021. An initiative of iRightsLab, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Research Institute for Public Administration and the German University of Administrative Sciences.
No right for digital participation in many regions of the world In many regions of the world the freedom of the Internet is just an illusion. Especially in Arab countries, the neighbouring states of Russia and Subsahara-Africa the year 2015 marked the lowest point for democratic participation and civil liberties. By Ute Schaeffer
A Commons Approach to European Knowledge Policy This paper describes how the commons perspective, as a new framework for understanding knowledge, can contribute to some important, long-overdue EU policy discussions. pdf