More than 75 institutions support letter to SPD and CDU/CSU negotiators entitled 'Protect Democracy, Promote the Common Good'.
ConPolicy signs open letter on platform regulation
Effective regulation of powerful platforms has become more difficult due to the change of government in the USA. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that Europe must go its own way to ensure fairness and facts as the basis for digital communication. This is not censorship - it is vital for the survival of democracy and social understanding.
Therefore, the ConPolicy Institute for Consumer Policy, together with 78 other organizations, supports the open letter from Germanwatch e.V. to the negotiators from the CDU/CSU and SPD. Because the next German government is largely responsible for maintaining democratic spaces for discourse in the digital world.
The central demands:
Enforce existing digital rules consistently - in particular the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act and competition law.
Supplement regulation in a targeted approach - for example with regard to the transparency of algorithms, tracking-based advertising, addiction-promoting design and interoperability obligations.
Promote democratically controlled, common good-orientated and sovereign digital infrastructures.
Moderation of various events as part of the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative
New Project for the German International Cooperation Society (GIZ)
For many years, ConPolicy has been supporting the German International Cooperation Society (GIZ) with the implementation of multi-stakeholder partnerships in the field of sustainable agricultural supply chains by facilitating various events. ConPolicy has now been won another multi-year framework contract to support the Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains Initiative (SASI).
The aim is to bring international figures in politics, business and civil society together through informative and lively events which facilitate exchange. To this end, ConPolicy provides both a pool of moderators and the technical infrastructure to the SASI.
Further information on the project can be found here.
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Cleaning digital data successfully for data protection, climate and mental health
Following successful campaigns in recent years, the CDR Initiative is now organizing the digital data clean-up for the third time. The aim of the campaign is to inspire employees in companies and other organizations, as well as consumers, to clean up their data on hard drives, network drives, in email inboxes and in the cloud, and to support and raise awareness of the need to do so.
The campaign will take place for the first time alongside the „Digitaltag“ (Digital Day) from June 23 to July 4, as data cleaning promotes general digital literacy and thus digital inclusion. The employees of the ConPolicy Institute regularly take part in the data cleanup, and we would be delighted if you would also bring the campaign to your organizations.
Together with its partner concern, ConPolicy runs the office of the Corporate Digital Responsibility Initiative (CDR Initiative) on behalf of the BMUV. The aim of the initiative is to promote digital responsibility for companies in all sectors.
You can find more information on data cleaning here.
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