Digital sovereignty for non-techies
When you start learning about digital sovereignty as a non-techie, you start to realise that something as ordinary as sending emails is highly vulnerable in terms […]
Tracked by spy pixels in E-Mails
Tracking technologies have become a major part of our daily interaction online. Most of the time we are aware that a company is observing and tracking […]
Pathways out of digital dependency
The “digital sovereignty of public administration” in Germany had already been named in 2019 by the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Horst Seehofer (CSU) as […]
Kopano Kraph – perfectly connected and digitally sovereign
I am an “as-well-as” fan. On the one hand, I want to have digital sovereignty, i.e. be independent of top dogs like Microsoft. On the other […]
Kopano 2021 – “Your data, your terms” applies more than ever before
For several years now, politicians and, in fact, most of Europe have been talking a lot about digital sovereignty and the control over our data that […]
Digital patient file – your data under your control?!
Since 01 January 2021, the time has come – the electronic patient record (ePA) is to offer all insured persons in Germany the voluntary opportunity to […]
A thought experiment: Enriching connections between apps with Solid
In preparation discussions for out talk at this years Cloud Storage Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) conference we also briefly discussed the Solid project. And […]
Digital Sovereignty and Democracy
“The German government is critical of the blocking of US President Donald Trump’s Twitter account,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung recently wrote. What was going on there? Wasn’t […]
Living in a world that lacks digital sovereignty
A statement about blocking an undesirable government figure: I read articles like https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/trump-twitter-merkel-1.5170842 or https://news.yahoo.com/angela-merkel-believes-trump-permanent-213832660.html?guccounter=1 and think to myself, Wow. Of course the Chancellor is right […]
Meet us at the virtual Univention Summit 2021!
Even though everything will be different at the upcoming Univention Summit on 28 January 2021, much will remain the same. As usual, there will be attractive […]