Decolonize the Digital: From Connectivity to Collective Solidarity

Armin Massing , Kave Bulambo , Katrin Hünemörder , Geraldine de Bastion , Molly Stenzel

20.05.2026 10:00–11:00
Stage 6
Englisch
Podiumsdiskussion
Wirtschaft & Innovation
#Digitalpolitik #Diversity #Teilhabe & Zugang #Technologie
At Berlin Global Village (BGV) in Berlin-Neukölln, global justice isn’t a buzzword — it’s infrastructure. Since 2021, around 50 development policy and migrant-diasporic organizations have shared affordable, stable workspaces and built a living laboratory for municipal, national, and international debate. Now comes the next leap: a Digital Hub that refuses to accept a status quo where tech scales faster than democracy, and platforms outperform participation. In a world long digitized but poorly redesigned, BGV is staking a claim: civil society must not merely “adapt” to digitalization — it must co-own, co-create, and co-govern it.

The panel discussion with the project’s cooperation partners is all about how ideas become real world initiatives. Here, development policy actors, migrant-diasporic organizations, and digital policy experts don’t just question systems — they create alternatives. They share tools, datasets, governance models, and hard-earned lessons from practice. The energy is collaborative, not competitive: alliances are mapped, synergies activated, and concrete pathways sketched out for ethical tech, participatory data practices, and sustainable digital infrastructures. What does a fair data ecosystem actually look like — and who maintains it? How can NGOs pool digital resources instead of duplicating them? Which governance models make platforms accountable from the start? This is a panel for builders: a collective blueprint for a digital civil society that codes sustainability, democracy, and global justice directly into its architecture.