In the organizer's words:

Innovative, powerful, ruthless - the narratives about digitalization that have been told for three decades
decades almost always sound the same: we owe digital progress to ingenious computer scientists
digital progress to ingenious computer scientists and shrewd entrepreneurs who have
invented things like computers and operating systems, smartphones and social media - technologies
technologies that turned our world upside down.

But there is no room in these success stories for the people whose work
contribute significantly to this. Digitalization is often based on material dependency and
and exploitative relationships: Labor, raw materials and data. The price for this is paid
especially the so-called Global South.

In his book "Digital Colonialism", Sven Hilbig sheds light on the blind spot of
digitalization and its global consequences. Nominated for the German Non-Fiction Prize
2025, the book highlights the criticism of digital colonialism - a phenomenon
is not new, but has hardly been heard or discussed in Germany and Europe.
been discussed. Sven Hilbig makes it clear how tech companies and major powers benefit from
profit from the exploitation of the Global South. The central message is: "AI will not fix it."

Price information:

15€ / reduced 8€ / free of charge with Kultursemesterticket