Join us and our distinguished speaker Brandi Geurkink (Coalition for Independent Technology Research) for a discussion on how advocacy, organising, and research intersect to shape the governance of our digital world. The event will be moderated by Prof. Daniela Stockmann (Centre for Digital Governance).
From auditing YouTube’s recommendation algorithm to leading a global coalition for independent tech research, Brandi Geurkink has spent much of her career organising people to push for ethical, transparent digital systems. Join us for a discussion on how advocacy, organising, and research intersect to shape the governance of our digital world—and what future changemakers can do to make tech more accountable.
This event is part of the Digital Governance in Practice event series organised by the Centre for Digital Governance of the Hertie School.
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Speakers
Speaker
Brandi Geurkink is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research, a coalition of more than 500 independent researchers across 51 countries who work together to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impacts of technology on society. Prior to the Coalition, she led advocacy campaigns at the Mozilla Foundation for policies to improve independent researcher access to data and open-source auditing of consumer technology platforms in Europe and the United States. At Mozilla, she created YouTube Regrets, the world’s largest community-driven audit of YouTube’s recommendation algorithm which has won multiple awards. Previously, Brandi also directed a research team and advised on the technology portfolio of Reset Tech, a nonprofit philanthropic organization dedicated to restoring the critical connection between media and democracy. Before working on corporate accountability in the technology sector, Brandi was an organizer and campaigner with the International Civil Society Centre in Berlin and the ONE Campaign in Washington, D.C.
Moderator
Daniela Stockmann is Director of the Centre for Digital Governance and Professor of Digital Governance at the Hertie School. Her current research focuses on the interaction between government, platform firms, and citizens in the area of social media governance. She studies these interactions both in China and in Europe. Her forthcoming book “Governing Digital China” (with Ting Luo, in press with Cambridge University Press) challenges top-down notions of digital governance and explores the logic of citizen-influenced corporatism, highlighting bottom-up influences of China’s largest platform firms.