Workshop on Corporate Digital Responsibility
ConPolicy at re:publica 2018
At this year’s re:publica a workshop titled “Corporate Digital Responsibility: What is our responsibility as a company in the digital economy” was implemented.
Together with interested participants, Stephan Engel from Otto Group and ConPolicy project manager Dr. Sara Elisa Kettner discussed opportunities and challenges of corporate digital responsibility and worked on potential solutions in this field.
Please find more information on the workshop here (German).
Consumer Education – Orientation in a Digital World
ConPolicy moderates Round Table Consumer Education
Digital everyday life offers many new consumption options to consumers. Yet, they are also confronted with new challenges: Which social networks can I trust? How should I change the settings in an app such that it protects my data? How do I protect my children against cyber-bullying? Should I really get a digital voice assistant for my apartment? In order to be able to answer these questions, consumers need specific competencies. However, research shows that there are deficits regarding these competencies.
Therefore, the German Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs recommended in 2013 to extend consumer education in schools. In the light of this five-year decision, the NRW Ministry of Consumer Protection today invited to a Round Table Consumer Education. The event covered questions regarding the status quo of the implementation of these recommendations in the German federal states, which good examples can be derived, and how the states can ensure that teachers are qualified to impart these new contents.
ConPolicy Managing Director, Prof. Dr. Christian Thorun, moderated the event (link in German). Participants were, amongst others: Christina Schulze Föcking, Minister for Consumer Protection in NRW, Reinhold Jost, Minister for Consumer Protection in Saarland, Yvonne Gebauer, Minister for Education in NRW, as well as Klaus Müller, Executive Director of The Federation of German Consumer Organizations.
Big data and smart living: Status quo and development trends
ConPolicy-report for the ABIDA-consortium available
Our every day life is increasingly influenced by digitalization and therefore it is not surprising that consumers’ home and leisure are digitally connected.
Together with Stiftung Neue Verantwortung a report for the ABIDA-project has been written between September 2017 and February 2018. The report aims at systematically analyzing big data in the area of smart living and gives an overview of data-driven smart living applications. Furthermore, necessary needs for action with respect to informational self-determination, user profiling and IT-security in the area of smart living and big data were identified and recommendations were developed.
The report (German) may be downloaded from the ABIDA-website. More information on the project may be found here.
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