Digital Sovereignty meets Data Dignity - A European perspective

This conversation is taking a European political perspective on data as well as digital sovereignty in a broader sense. Data Sovereignty is a common theme in European politics that is supposed to advance earlier approaches which have been focussing on data privacy only (e.g. with GDPR). What are the main goals and principles in Europe in regards to data and digital sovereignty? Where is Europe heading in data and digital regulation (e.g. with the private-public-partnership-project Gaia-X)? What are the key goals and principles of liberal democrats in Germany in this context? How does this compare to RadicalxChange’s ideas like Data Dignity? Mario, a technologist and member of parliament for the liberal party in Germany (FDP), will make a short introduction on his view on the above mentioned topics and will answer questions from RadicalxChange member Andreas. Questions from the audience will be possible and valued.

Speakers

Mario Brandenburg is a German politician of The Free Democratic Party. Coming from the field of Business Informatics and having gained experience in various IT positions at Europe’s largest software company SAP, Mario Brandenburg started his political career as a member of the Free Democratic Party. In 2017, he was elected a member of the German Bundestag for the Free Democratic Party and has since represented his constituency at the federal level. Today, he is a technology policy spokesman and a member of the Committee on Education, Research, and Technology Assessment. He also serves as spokesman for the Digital Agenda Committee and the Study Group on Artificial Intelligence in the German Parliament.

Andreas Fauler is an AI, Cryptonetworks and Governance Expert. Andreas has spent his whole professional career working for software and cloud companies including IBM, Novell, SuccrssFactors and SAP. Currently he works at the horizontal AI scale up arago. In addition Andreas is a board member of the German digital political association #cnetz and an advisory board member of the smart city project Digitalstadt Darmstadt. Andreas is an active member of the RadicalxChange and Blockchain communities and is based in Frankfurt, Germany.