[digital.global] in dialogue
The [digital.global] network brings together more than 100 stakeholders from politics, the private sector, civil society and academia in Germany, our partner countries and our multilateral partner system.
As a platform for all stakeholders driving a socio-ecological and feminist digital transformation, the network thrives on its strong partnerships and continuous exchange. Its aim is to harness the innovative power of the digital economy for development policy goals by responding to the needs of partner countries. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) is in constant dialogue with its initiatives and partners to adapt technical and financial cooperation to the constantly changing challenges of the ongoing digital transformation in all areas of life.
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AI for Africa Conference 2025
The AI for Africa Conference 2025 will convene leading international stakeholders from the G20 and beyond to support the AI for Africa Initiative. Anchored in the African Union’s AI Strategy and Data Governance Framework, the Conference will build on existing efforts to accelerate Africa’s capacity to harness artificial intelligence and data for sustainable development.
At its core, the initiative seeks to position AI as a driver of economic growth, innovation, and social transformation – contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
What’s at stake?
To fully unlock the potential of AI in Africa, investments are needed across several fronts:
- Expanding AI infrastructure and data storage capacity
- Developing AI-ready datasets that reflect Africa’s cultural and social diversity
- Strengthening education, training, and research programmes
- Building frameworks for equitable, inclusive, and ethical AI adoption
- Promoting green and just energy transitions powered by digital innovation
Beyond technology, the Conference will also highlight capacity-building in the public sector and the transformative role of AI in Africa’s creative and media industries.
A vision shaped by Africa’s talent
Africa’s young and dynamic population will play a decisive role in shaping the continent’s AI future. The Conference aims to mobilise this creativity and energy, with a special focus on the participation of African women, ensuring that AI solutions are developed in Africa, for Africa.
By convening diverse actors, the AI for Africa Conference 2025 will set the stage for inclusive and sustainable digital transformation on the continent.
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Regional Conference on Information Integrity in West Africa and the Sahel
Over the past months, GIZ’s regional project Strengthening Information Integrity in West Africa has supported UNESCO in organizing the Regional Conference on Information Integrity in West Africa and the Sahel, taking place from 3 to 5 September 2025 in Praia, Cape Verde.
Uniting government officials, civil society, media, academia, and digital stakeholders to strengthen policies on information integrity and digital platform governance, the conference represents a key milestone in advancing regional approaches to counter disinformation and hate speech. The project collaborates with a diverse range of partners from all sectors of society in Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and the broader region. It has facilitated the participation of key partners from Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire and led national consultations, the outcomes of which directly inform the policy documents and action plan to be adopted at the conference. In cooperation with its partners, the project will also showcase good practices and address challenges related to information integrity through the following sessions:
Whack-a-Mole: how do we ensure fact-checking survives the current existential crisis? examines the future of fact-checking as tech giants and donor agencies withdraw critical support, threatening the sustainability of independent verification efforts—especially in regions like West Africa. The panel includes representatives of Pesacheck, SoleilCheck, CJRS and CESTI
Fake News – Real Money: the ‘digital mercenaries’ who profiteer from information manipulation explores the hidden economics behind disinformation and the influence-for-hire industry, highlighting the critical role of addressing ‘dark money’ that fuels hate speech and manipulative content. Panelists Justin Arenstein (Code for Africa) and Katharina Lobeck (GIZ’s Strengthening Information Integrity in West Africa) will discuss strategies to disrupt these covert operations and strengthen information integrity in West Africa and beyond.
Weaponised Words: how do we combat transnational extremist polarisation, incitement and hate speech? focuses on combating digital incitement and radicalization by exploring grassroots early warning systems and community-based peacebuilding efforts. Frontline practitioners from Code for Africa, Resilience for Peace, Search for Common Ground, GRADEC, and Conseil National du Laïcat share successful local strategies to counter hate speech and online extremism, emphasizing the importance of context-specific approaches over external solutions.
Regulatory Innovation Incubator: Learning from emerging promising practices in the regulation of digital platforms from across the globe highlights innovative, design-centered regulatory approaches to digital platform governance in West Africa, emphasizing prosocial technology and resilience. It promotes regional peer learning by drawing on global best practices to develop a roadmap aligned with UNESCO’s Model Policy on Information Integrity. The panel will include representatives from Search for Common Ground, RIARC, REFRAM, ANP, and CORED.
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Open Day at the BMZ Berlin
Under the motto ‘The new Federal Government invites you’, we warmly welcome all visitors to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development in Berlin on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August 2025, between 10:00 and 18:00.
Join us for a rare glimpse inside Berlin’s oldest high-rise – the iconic Europahaus – home to the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Enjoy fair coffee with a stunning 11th-floor view over the city.
Expect inspiring round-table talks on global challenges like poverty, migration, and development – with Federal Minister Reem Alabali Radovan attending on Saturday, 23 August.
Explore interactive exhibits from BMZ and its partners, dive into the topic “Why international cooperation”. digital.global will also be presenting its activities on site, together with the political initiatives Fair Forward and Govstack.
The visit is free of charge and no registration is required.
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Digital Transformation Centres in Ghana and Iraq reimagine innovation and sustainability together
In June 2025, the Digital Transformation Centres of Ghana and Iraq convened innovation hubs and ecosystem actors for a peer exchange on building resilient innovation ecosystems. Building on DTC Iraq’s visit to Ghana Innovation Week 2023, the dialogue has grown into a platform for cross-continental collaboration.
The core focus: moving from donor support to financial sustainability. Participants shared approaches on revenue generation, community-rooted operations, and the mindset shifts required. “Resilience means creating value our communities want and are willing to pay for,” noted Fab Hub Ashanti. Suli Innovation House highlighted how turning challenges into services fuels growth.
The session also explored future collaboration such as joint programmes, cross-border training, and continuous peer learning. “Exchanges like this inspire us to keep building with what we have and who we serve,” said Ali Taher of Makers of Baghdad. Makers of Baghdad is an innovation hub in Iraq dedicated to empowering Iraqi entrepreneurs and innovators by transforming ideas into impactful businesses through cutting-edge training programs, collaborative workspaces, and startup incubation. As Richmond Elikplim Anane from Hopin Academy put it: “Moving from donor support to financial sustainability is not just a goal; it is an essential mindset shift.” Hopin Academy is an innovation hub tackling rural-urban migration, youth unemployment, and poverty in Northern Ghana. Guided by the conviction that entrepreneurship is the key to lasting solutions, the academy continues to shape its initiatives around this belief.
Both DTCs see this as a starting point for sustained cooperation that strengthens ecosystems, enhances resilience, and drives context-driven innovation across borders.
About the digital Transformation Centers
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival 2025
The ‘Creative Bureaucracy Festival’ (CBF) will take place in Berlin on 5 June 2025. This conference will bring together representatives from administration, politics, civil society and science to rethink administration and present creative approaches to solving social challenges.
German development cooperation is actively represented in the CBF programme and addresses the following questions: How can data and artificial intelligence (AI) support policymaking in tackling global challenges? And what do innovative approaches look like in practice?
Together with the Data Labs of the German Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV) and the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ), the BMZ Data Lab is organising the following events:
Interactive Panel: Game Changer Data—How Data Labs Make Smarter Policies
11 AM – 12 PM CEST | Transformation Stage
Innovative approaches and applications developed by the data labs of BMZ, BMV, and BMBFSFJ for the German administration will be demonstrated. The Federal Chancellery’s data lab will also be part of the event, presenting the role of data labs in ministerial administration.
Workshop: Translating Data into Policy—Mapping Challenges, Crafting Solutions
12 – 13:30 PM CEST | Forum
Following the panel, participants can learn how data can be incorporated into political decision-making processes through practical use cases in the workshop, organised by the GIZ global project Data2Policy. The aim: to make policy more transparent and evidence-based.
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UNESCO 2025 Forum: AI & Digital Transformation in the Public Sector
The UNESCO Conference on ‘Capacity Building on AI and Digital Transformation in the Public Sector’ will take place from 4–5 June in Paris to address capacity-building needs for public sector officials related to artificial intelligence (AI), digital technologies, and data governance. Over the course of two days, panels, keynotes and interactive sessions will bring together stakeholders to foster multi-stakeholder, multilateral digital cooperation and discuss how the global digital transformation can be advanced through capacity building of a key sector—civil servants.
Panel: ‘AI policy in practice: AI & data governance from the ground up’
June 5 | 12 AM–1 PM CEST | UNESCO Headquarters and online via livestream
Opening remarks by Yannik Sassmann from the Data Lab of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) will set the scene for a panel discussion moderated by Deshni Govender from the FAIR Forward initiative. A highlight will be the launch of the AI Policy Playbook, which was jointly produced by the Africa-Asia AI Policymaker Network and GIZ.
François Fonteneau from PARIS21 and Maxwell Ababio from Ghana’s Data Protection Commission will explore inclusive and fair AI implementation in the public sector drawing on the AI Policy Playbook and a series of policy briefs produced by PARIS21. The conversation will invite questions from the floor so that participants can test the ideas against their own national contexts.
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Hands-On Workshop: ‘The AI advantage: Smarter data, smarter decisions’
June 6 | half-day workshop | OECD Boulogne
The discussion will continue in a more hands-on format on 6 June 2025, when PARIS21 hosts the half-day workshop ‘The AI advantage: Smarter data, smarter decisions’ at the OECD premises in Boulogne, Paris. Guided by facilitators from PARIS21 and the BMZ Data Lab, policymakers will work through simulations, data-mapping exercises and generative-AI demonstrations designed to sharpen their evidence-informed decision-making skills.
Spots are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Secure your spot here:
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Modernising Public Administration: The BMZ Data Lab on International Events
Group picture at the UNESCO conference "Capacity Building on AI and Digital Transformation in the Public Sector" in Paris © Data2Policy 
Session at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival (CBF) in Berlin © Data2Policy 
Workshop at the Creative Bureaucracy Festival (CBF) in Berlin © Data2Policy At the beginning of June, the BMZ Data Lab participated in the Creative Bureaucracy Festival (CBF) in Berlin and the UNESCO conference “Capacity Building on AI and Digital Transformation in the Public Sector” in Paris to highlight innovative approaches in development cooperation and public administration.
The CBF session “Game Changer Data” gathered more than 200 participants. The data labs of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV), and the Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMBFSFJ) jointly presented their approaches and applications for modern and smart public administrations. Approaches included the use of artificial intelligence (AI), interactive dashboards, and the promotion of data literacy and culture.
When asked in a live survey, which challenges they are presented with when using data, many participants from the audience replied with “data protection”, “data quality”, or “data competency” – themes that the data labs address through their data innovations and capacity building measures. As innovation units within the German Federal Public Administration, the data labs develop, test, and scale smart approaches to make political decision-making processes data-informed.
Data-informed decisions also laid the grounds for the workshop “Translating Data into Policy: Mapping Challenges, Crafting Solutions”, organised by GIZ Data2Policy. Based on real-life use cases on labor market data and climate change, policy-makers and private sector representatives learned how data is used for evidence-based decision-making processes.
Group picture at the UNESCO conference "Capacity Building on AI and Digital Transformation in the Public Sector" in Paris © Data2Policy These topics also resonated on the international stage: At the margins of the UNESCO Conference on Capacity Building on AI and Digital Transformation in the Public Sector, the BMZ Data Lab, together with PARIS21 and the GIZ initiative Data2Policy, hosted the hands-on workshop “The AI Advantage: Smarter Data, Smarter Decisions”. The focus: how to make evidence-based policymaking work in the digital age. At the heart of the discussions was the critical role of reliable data and responsible AI in informing political decision-making. Through interactive exercises, policymakers explored key challenges, opportunities, and practical applications of generative AI.
Three key takeaways from the workshop:
- Data as a foundation: High-quality data enables strategic decisions – provided it is purposefully analyzed and applied.
- The public sector as a role model: Governments should lead by example in using AI transparently, fairly, and in the public interest.
- Room for innovation: Developing new data- and AI-driven solutions requires space to test, learn – and occasionally fail.
These themes were also central to a panel at the UNESCO conference featuring FAIR Forward, PARIS21, and the Ghana Data Protection Commission. The session included the presentation of the FAIR Forward AI Policy Playbook – a practical tool for developing context-sensitive AI governance.
The common message of both sessions in Paris: Progress depends on collaboration, local ownership, and responsible data and AI governance. This is exactly where BMZ and its partners are focusing their efforts.
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Hamburg Sustainability Conference 2025
The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) is a global gathering of leaders and changemakers from governments, international organisations, businesses, civil society, and academia. Together, they co-create innovative solutions for a sustainable and fair future. The next conference is scheduled for 2-3 June 2025.
HSC is organised by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Michael Otto Foundation and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
One of the focus areas of the HSC is responsible artificial intelligence (AI) and digitalisation. This initiative promotes responsible and accessible AI that fosters sustainable development, is human-centered, advances gender equality and protects the climate and environment. During the 2024 conference, UNDP, BMZ and partners announced a global platform to harness the potential of responsible AI for sustainable development.
Key milestones include:
- Agreement on shared principles for the human-centric design and use of AI to support the SDGs.
- The launch of the AI SDG Compendium, a global database showcasing how AI can contribute to sustainable development.
The upcoming Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI for the SDGs represents a collaborative effort to define how AI can create meaningful development outcomes for all. The Declaration promotes an optimistic vision: fostering equal partnerships across all sectors and societies, with a special emphasis on empowering emerging communities. It includes a set of voluntary commitments endorsed by a diverse group of stakeholders and will be finalised at the 2025 HSC.
more InformationWatch 2024’s Panel
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113th Session of the International Labour Conference: A Turning Point for Platform Work?
Conference Plenary. 113th International Labour Conference, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 4 June 2025. Photo Pierre Albouy / ILO The 113th session of the International Labour Conference took place from 2-13 June 2025 in Geneva, marking a turning point for platform work. For the first time working conditions in the platform economy were on the agenda of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Once barely recognised as work, platform work has now become a topic whose significance can hardly be overestimated. Many platform workers are visible on the streets, on their bikes, and riding marked vehicles, changing how we experience and navigate the city. Ordering with a click is turning into the new reality of shopping and delivery, revolutionising other services like health and childcare as well. Alongside this, hundreds of millions of workers are working behind their laptop screens, rarely seen as part of this new global workforce connected online by a platform. The latter dictates the rules of engagement, decides the pay, and can unilaterally restrict or even deactivate workers’ accounts.
Thus, making the regulation of platform work and algorithmic management a priority and finding agreement on international standards is much needed to create certainty and protect workers in the digital age. The significance of a potential convention reaches beyond platform work and has implications for us all, as we experience the impact of digitisation seeping into our everyday work lives.
The conference has laid the groundwork for an international convention, to be complemented by recommendations aimed at raising standards across the sector. This outcome represents a significant victory for workers as it allows harmonising and improving regulation globally and introducing safeguards. This victory is, however, an incomplete one as of now, as the precise terms of the convention remain subject to negotiation. Although the current draft addresses several important issues, it notably omits provisions relating to minimum wage, effective control and concrete suggestions relating to social security coverage in its core text. These gaps must be addressed to ensure comprehensive protection for platform workers. The potential economic and social impact of stronger international standards cannot be overstated: better protections would not only contribute to a more sustainable and equitable digital economy but also safeguard livelihoods of millions of people.
The international community now has a year, until the next session in June 2026, to fulfil its responsibility and elevate standards to effect meaningful change. It is central that governments, trade unions, platform companies, and civil society organisations engage actively in the negotiation process.
Member states can also take concrete steps such as promoting transparency and improving working conditions based on the real evidence through projects like Fairwork , supporting workers through tailored interventions and upskilling offers (see atingi ), raising the remuneration and strive to reach the living wage, and piloting innovative regulatory approaches, for instance, for algorithmic management, even before the adoption of the convention.
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GIZ at re:publica 2025
From 26 to 28 May 2025, STATION Berlin will once again be the hub for discussions on all aspects of digital society. With the theme of ‘Generation XYZ’, re:publica invites people of all ages to discuss the opportunities and challenges of the digital present and future.
The most important conference on digital society in the German-speaking region, re:publica brings together people from science, politics, business, civil society, the media, the arts, and online activism. The focus is on sharing knowledge and networking on digital policy topics, ranging from digital participation to climate protection, artificial intelligence, and working in the digital space.
We are looking forward to contributing to the following sessions:
Am I not human? Data workers behind our AI systems and social media platforms speak out
26 May 2025 | 12:30–1:30 p.m. CEST | Stage 3
The panel discussion shines a spotlight on the invisible work of data workers behind digital platforms. The focus is on joint demands for fair working conditions emerging from a German-Kenyan collaboration. Hosted by SUPERRR Lab, supported by our Gig Economy initiative, Siasa Place, the International Digital Dialogues and the Digital Transformation Centre (DTC) Kenya.
- Joan Kinyua, President, Data Labeler Association Kenya
- Andreas Hänisch, Deputy Chairman, TikTok Works Council
- Moderated by Rim Melake, SUPERRR Lab
Interview with Joan Kinyua Link to the panel
Governing and sustaining the AI Commons? Finding models to pass the pilot phase
26 May 2025 | 5:30–6:30 p.m. CEST | Speak Up
Big tech companies dominate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) with a ‘one-model-fits-all’ approach—at the expense of data protection, climate and fair labour. This panel discussion explores how the concept of federated AI commons can be realised as a sustainable and fair alternative—featuring our FAIR Forward initiative.
- Ramya Chandrasekhar, Researcher, Centre for Internet and Society, CNRS
- Renata Avila, CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation
- Daniel Brumund, Advisor AI and Digital Public Goods, GIZ FAIR Forward
- Moderated by Solana Larsen, writer and editor
Makers, movers, and digital innovators: How digital skills empower Africa to drive global transformation
27 May 2025 | 11:15–12:15 p.m. CEST | Stage 6
Digital skills are central to sustainable change—socially, ecologically, and economically. Drawing on specific examples, this session shows how practical approaches, such as FabLabs and open-source technologies, can empower people of all ages in Africa to shape the digital future and develop global solutions.
- Anna Sophie Herken, Board Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
- Manuel Moritz, Senior Researcher, New Production Institute
- Debora Maboya, Head of Operations and Programs, Tai Tanzania
- Moderated by Katie Gallus, moderator and geographer
From ‘black tax’ to ‘business capital’—Transforming African diaspora remittances
27 May 2025 | 12:30–1:00 p.m. CEST | Lightning Box 2
Remittances from the African diaspora offer more than just family support; they have enormous potential to drive economic change. This Lightning Talk explores how digital platforms, such as WIDU.africa, can transform private remittances into sustainable entrepreneurship—an example of knowledge transfer and global cooperation.
- Seronei Chelulei Cheison, founder and CEO, Sinonin Biotech GmbH
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World Bank Global Digital Summit 2025
The World Bank‘s Global Digital Summit 2025 will take place in Washington DC, USA from 17 to 20 March 2025 under the theme ‘Digital Pathways for All’. It is the second edition of the Global Digital Summit, which was launched in March 2024. The Summit is funded through the Digital Development Partnership (DDP), which serves as a platform for exchange between DDP partners, the World Bank and World Bank clients on digital development.
High-level speakers include:
- Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank
- Makhtar Diop, Managing Director of IFC
- Sangbu Kim, Vice President for Digital Transformation of the World Bank
- Mark Suzman, CEO of the Gates Foundation
- Vivek Badrinath, Director General of GSMA
- Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General of ITU
The latest projects and innovations in the digital sector are part of an exhibition with 24 private companies and partners, including the BMZ initiative GovStack, which will be exhibiting on 19 March.
The Digital Development Partnership is a World Bank initiative supported by development partners aiming to advance digital transformation in low- and middle-income countries by building strong digital foundations and enablers while facilitating use cases for digital economies to thrive. BMZ and GIZ are supporting the Multi-Donor-Trust-Fund since 2021, with a focus on the digital and green twin transition.
You want to learn more about our partnership with the World Bank on digital development? Have a look at last year’s results in the Digital Development Partnership (DDP) Annual Review 2024.
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Creative Bureaucracy Festival: Digital Kick-Off Day
As a prelude to the Creative Bureaucracy Festival in June, the Digital Kick-Off Day on 13 March will showcase innovative and creative solutions for administration. The event is free of charge and will take place online.
Workshop ‘Data to Policy Simplified: Mapping Challenges, Crafting Solutions’
10-11:30 a.m.Data2Policy and UNDP will host an interactive session, designed to bridge the gap between data and policymaking. Led by Alena Klatte (UNDP) and Geeti Patwal (GIZ), the workshop explores global challenges such as climate change and youth employment, and how data is being leveraged for better governance in addressing them. Participants will gain hands-on insights and learn about practical strategies and tools—like the Data to Policy Navigator—to strengthen data-driven policy approaches within their organisations.
MORE INFORMATION Register here for the workshop
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GSMA Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2025
The Mobile World Congress (MWC), one of the world’s largest events in the field of mobile communications and connectivity, will take place in Barcelona from 3 to 6 March. The annual congress is organised by the GSM Association (GSMA), an international association for the mobile communications industry.
Under this year’s theme ‘Converge. Connect. Create.’, over 2,700 international representatives from business, government and technology companies and more than 100,000 visitors will come together to discuss technical innovations.
This year’s focus is on the following six key topics:
- 5G Inside
- Connect X
- AI+
- Enterprise Re-invented
- Game Changers
- Our Digital DNA
We look forward to:
- Roundtable organised by Smart Africa in the run-up to the congress on 2 March
- Session ‘Digital Agriculture for the Underserved: Adaptive User Research and Impact’ | 5 March, 10:30-11:30 CET
The session will focus on digital solutions for the agricultural sector that are specifically tailored to farmers’ needs. Practical examples will be used to show how user-centred research and monitoring and evaluation can help to design and scale digital solutions more effectively. FAIR Forward will present the ‘Agricultural Information Exchange Platform’ (AIEP), co-funded by the Gates Foundation.
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RightsCon 2025
The 13th edition of RightsCon will take place from 24 to 27 Frebruary in Taipei, Taiwan and online. This global event brings together policymakers, private sector representatives, academics, digital ecosystem stakeholders, and activists to discuss pressing challenges and innovative solutions at the intersection of technology and human rights.
With over 550 sessions on topics such as “Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies”, “Internet Access and Inclusion”, “Governance, Politics, and Elections” and many more, RightsCon serves as a platform for dialogue and collaboration towards a more open and inclusive digital future.
We look forward to our contributions:
FAIR Foward will participate in the session “Navigating GeoAI for climate action: potential and pitfalls”, hosted by the Digital Futures Lab. Speakers include:
- Ruth Schmidt, FAIR Forward, GIZ
- Dona Mathew, Digital Futures Lab
- Pyrou Chung, Knowledge for Development (K4D) Foundation
- Katya Abazaijan, Local Data Futures Initiatives
KfW will present the Digital Rights Check, a tool developed by KfW and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) in collaboration with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR). The aim is to sensitise professionals to potential human rights impacts in digital projects in intergovernmental financial development cooperation.
Together with ARTICLE 19, GIZ will host the session “Discourse, data, disinformation—exploring ideas for protecting information integrity together”, bringing together experts to discuss key regulatory reforms, self-regulatory measures, and multi-stakeholder approaches to combat disinformation and strengthen information integrity.
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Handelsblatt GovTech Summit 2025
The Handelsblatt GovTech Summit will take place from 19-20 February under the motto ‘Germany on a digital race to catch up’. The annual event brings together representatives from politics, administration and the digital economy to develop strategies for a sustainable, digital state. The focus is on best practices, fostering partnerships and innovation for the digitalisation of the public sector.
Global Cooperation, Local Resilience: Strengthening Digital Public Infrastructure
On 20 February 2025, 2:40 – 3:10 p.m. (CET), leading experts will discuss the crucial role of digital public infrastructure (DPI) in advancing digital sovereignty and societal resilience in the session ‘Digital Public Infrastructure: Open Source as a Driver of Digital Sovereignty’. This session will explore national and international initiatives—including the GovStack Initiative, the Sovereign Tech Agency (STA), and the Center for Digital Sovereignty (ZenDiS)—and how open source solutions and global collaboration can drive the future of DPI.
Speakers:
- Andrea Donath, GovStack Initiative
- Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency
- Jutta Horstmann, ZenDiS
Join us for this insightful discussion!