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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“One Kopano-to-Go, please!” …
… or: How do I get my own mail and communication server in just 30 minutes? This question came to me when my daughter got her […]
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 […]
The e-mail is dead, long live the e-mail
E-mail has been pronounced dead often enough – a tool from the last century that is no longer cutting edge. However, it is still the case […]