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PublicSpaces Conference

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  1. Join Forces for The Next Socials @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Cross-sector collaboration to build social media that is truly social A growing part of our encounters, communication, and access to information takes place on Big Tech social media platforms. As a result, we are losing control over essen...

  2. Growth and Sustainability of the Open Social Web @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Growing an ecosystem beyond the big platforms As Mastodon celebrates its 10th anniversary and BlueSky surpasses 43 million users, it has become clear that the Open Social Web is here to stay. Yet while these two larger platforms continue ...

  3. Values vs. Profits @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Digital Ethics and The European Marketplace The pursuit of digital autonomy is now widely embraced. The government is seeking solutions to strengthen this digital autonomy and is preparing a new form of industrial policy. This creates opp...

  4. Defending our Digital Rights @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - How do we uphold public interests in a digital society? In an era of increasing geopolitical tensions, rapid technological change, and growing ecological pressure, one thing is becoming ever clearer: democratic control over technology is ...

  5. Designing the Stack @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Designs for digital public spaces Mental health in the Netherlands is under pressure. More and more people are experiencing psychological complaints, while waiting times are increasing and the current healthcare system is reaching its lim...

  6. An AI of Our Own @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Keynote - Reimagining Community-led AI for the Global South Who gets to shape AI — and whose communities, cultures, and knowledge systems should it serve? These are the central questions that Tatenda Tavingeyi brings to the stage in this talk. T...

  7. Strength Through Diversity @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Strengthening European Democracy with a ‘Euro Social Stack’ Social media platforms are having an enormous impact on European societies. Through addictive design and opaque algorithms, public opinion is manipulated, political agendas are p...

  8. Cultural Production and AI @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel — Who gets to shape AI: the case for arts and culture The development of AI depends on training data. Much of that data is scraped without consent, and a significant portion consists of works of intellectual property and the fruits of cultu...

  9. 25 Years of Wikipedia: Constructing Communities @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - What can The Next Socials learn from Wikipedia and Europeana? On 15 January 2001, Jimmy Wales typed the words 'Hello World' into a piece of software called Wiki. Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia has grown into one of the world's most im...

  10. Holdfast @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Keynote by Erin Kissane In her keynote, Erin Kissane explores the rare window of opportunity that builders on decentralized networks currently have: the technical foundations across multiple ecosystems are now stable and increasingly interconnect...

  11. Social media, Journalism & Democracy @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Can journalism use the Open Social Web to strengthen democracy? We live in interesting times. Democratic values are under pressure, tech has become politics — or perhaps it always was — and the well-known Big Tech social media platforms a...

  12. Technology for Democracy @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Strengthening Our Autonomy Following the opening keynote, the panel addresses some of the most urgent questions that will be explored throughout the PublicSpaces Conference. How do we deal with our digital dependencies, and can we transfo...

  13. Closing @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    null Speakers: https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/session/closing-26

  14. We Build On Hope @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Keynote by Robin Berjon The current state of tech can feel disheartening. Years of critical analysis and reform efforts have left us with a digital sphere that seems worse than ever. In Europe, our leaders appear unable to formulate a clear strat...

  15. Community Governance for the Open Social Web @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Panel - Where digital and physical community spaces meet Following Rudy Fraser's keynote, the conversation broadens into a wider discussion on community, identity, and digital space. Lauren Challis, board member of the Internet Society Netherland...

  16. Open Socials Award Show @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Ceremony - Celebrating the pioneers building a healthier, sovereign social web This year, New_Public and PublicSpaces present the Open Socials Awards for the very first time. With this award, we aim to stimulate the field of decentralised social ...

  17. BlackSky @ PublicSpaces Conference 2026

    Keynote by Rudy Fraser What does it look like when a community builds its own social media on its own terms? Rudy Fraser, technologist, community organiser, and founder of Blacksky Algorithms [https://blackskyweb.xyz/], has been doing exactly tha...

  18. Break Out of the Lock In @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - A roundtable on digital autonomy by Netherland’s public and civic society organisations It has been a recurring theme: the Netherlands and Europe need to become more independent in various areas, including digital. In this session, ...

  19. Green Digital Literacy @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Moeten we ons schamen voor de ogenschijnlijk onbenullige vragen die we dagelijks aan AI stellen? Het energieverbruik van kunstmatige intelligentie rijst de pan uit. Als de huidige groei doorzet, zal AI eind 2025 verantwoordelijk zijn voor maar lie...

  20. Power to the People @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - How citizens across Europe take control over their digital space Traditional governments find themselves increasingly outmatched by technology tycoons and autocratic strongmen: geopolitical predators who shape the world through brute ...

  21. AI for the Public Good @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Real solutions, real impact Artificial intelligence presents significant challenges and opportunities, but what steps can we take to ensure it benefits society and not just a few corporations? This panel moves beyond ethics, showc...

  22. Towards a Resilient and Democratic Tech Market @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Reclaiming control over our digital future Our society and economy have become entirely dependent on infrastructure provided by big non-European tech giants over which we have too little control. To take back control over our vital di...

  23. Shaping our Digital Future @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Keynote - Building just, sovereign, and sustainable digital systems Donald Trump is back in the White House, and this time through an alliance with the billionaires of Silicon Valley. For years, concerns about the harms and drawbacks of our d...

  24. Off the Record @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    An immersive performance lecture OFF THE RECORD is an immersive performative lecture that unveils an algorithmic reality shaped by the use of risk assessment tools by the Dutch Police. Grounded in real events, we delve into the complexities...

  25. Creating Responsible AI Tools with Artists @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Innovate in ethical, critical, and speculative ways Generative AI tools - AI chatbots, image and voice generators – create ethically controversial situations: copy-right violations, deepfakes and more. Artists and creatives are ques...

  26. The Future of Social Media @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - A roadmap to reinventing our social media landscape The current Big Tech social media platforms and their profit-driven, opaque algorithms undermine our mental well-being, reinforce polarisation, and pose a direct threat to our democr...

  27. AI Warm-Up: Reshaping Public Media in the Age of AI @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - An interactive session on the importance of embedding public values in how Europe uses AI in the media As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms how media is made, distributed, and consumed, public media organizations across Europe...

  28. Mesh Networks @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - How do we communicate when disaster strikes? Western Europe is slowly coming to grips with the fact that all the digital infrastructures we depend on, may not be as dependable as we all thought. Network architectures come with their o...

  29. Engagement Strategies for the Fediverse @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Lessons learnt from early adopters A panel of experts share their hard-earned experiences and engagement strategies for the fediverse. What are the do’s and the don’ts? How do pioneers organise audience engagement on federated social ...

  30. No Musk, Zuckerberg or Trump can shut us down @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Can the Fediverse uphold and strengthen democracy, information and solidarity in Europe? We live in “interesting times”. Democratic values are under pressure, tech has become political, and well-known Big Tech social media platforms ar...

  31. Opening @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    null More information will follow soon Speakers: Jantien Borsboom, Geert-Jan Bogaerts, https://c...

  32. Putting Digital Sovereignty into Practice @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - Opportunities for international collaboration Following the keynote of Paris Marx, we will discuss what opportunities of international collaboration we should foster in order to create digital sovereignty for Europe. We specifically z...

  33. Closing @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    null More information will follow soon Speakers: Alexander Scholtes, Elisabeth IJmker, [Jantien Bors...

  34. Emerging Technologies & Public Values @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - How to safeguard public values in rapidly emerging technologies? Rapidly emerging technologies such as quantum technology, general artificial intelligence and extended reality, have the potential to have a huge impact on our daily liv...

  35. Break Out of the Lock In @ PublicSpaces Conference 2025

    Panel - A roundtable on digital autonomy by Netherland’s public and civic society organisations It has been a recurring theme: the Netherlands and Europe need to become more independent in various areas, including digital. In this session, ...

  36. Aftermovie PublicSpaces Conference 2024

    Op 6 en 7 juni 2024 organiseerden PublicSpaces en Waag Futurelab de vierde editie van de PublicSpaces conferentie met als thema ‘Taking Back the Internet’. Via panels, keynotes, rondetafelsessies, lezingen, kunst en cultuur baanden we ons een weg ...

  37. Political Grip on Digitisation @ PublicSpaces Conference 2024

    Panel - How to make political choices surrounding digitalisation with Jesse Six Dijkstra, Barbara Kathmann, Queeny Rajkowski & Sander van der Waal The discussion about the government's role in digitisation is sometimes narrowed to a conversation ...

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