Re:publica: How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic
I'm delighted to be speaking at Re:publica, where I'll be giving a talk about "How We Can Finally Make The Digital World Democratic: Starting With Social Media".
The abstract says it all:
Most of the digital sphere is under authoritarian governance: we only get change by begging large companies to act better or sometimes by forcing them. And when you take an authoritarian system and you use it as infrastructure for society, through the power of infrastructure that society becomes authoritarian as well.
We cannot continue this way, but the fact that there is limited experience with democratic governance in the digital sphere makes it challenging to understand how to approach the problem. In this talk, we will see how by using open protocols and technical architectures that are compatible with democracy, and by understanding the role of digital infrastructure, we can build democratic social media.
See you there if you're going!