Decolonize the Digital: From Connectivity to Collective Solidarity
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, you’ll find us at @republica from 10:00 to 11:00 AM on Stage 6.
Armin Massing (Berlin Global Village), Kave Bulambo (Black in Tech), Katrin Hünemörder (Mediale Pfade) and Geraldine de Bastion (Global Innovation Gathering), will be discussing the Digital Hub at Berlin Global Village and exploring how digitalization, civil society, sustainability, and global justice can be thought together.
Moderated by Molly Stenzel (Berlin Global Village)
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.
Presented by Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe.
