Elmar Geese  
  
Room: stage 3  
  
Whistleblowing is an ethical important activity. Together we will make a speedy tour&nbsp;through the last decades, explore known or forgotten events, uncover myths, look into the past and the future of net driven transparency.&nbsp;What we need is&nbsp;rememberance being persistent, to avoid&nbsp;that our heroes getting&nbsp;"heroes just for one day",&nbsp;lost in our daily media and information overload buzz. What can we do to achieve this.?&nbsp;This talk is an attempt and starting point to create a place of&nbsp;commemoration, to help and motivate current & &nbsp;future whistleblowers.&nbsp;
 
 I, I can remember 
 
 Standing, by the wall 
 
 And the guns shot above our heads 
 
 And we kissed, as though nothing could fall 
 
 And the shame was on the other side 
 
 Oh we can beat them, for ever and ever 
 
 Then we could be Heroes, just for one day


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Unsinn stiften als performative Aufklärung. Ein Vortrag im Sinne des Katersalons

**motto**

During its nearly eight year history, re:publica has developed into Europe’s largest social media conference, with 5 000 participants in the last year, and has had the privilege of welcoming many of the digital society’s most important leading minds to its stages. Since its inception, the digital society has faced continuous changes – but never have these changes been so palpable as since whistle-blower Edward Snowden’s revelations during the summer of 2013.

re:publica 2014’s motto INTO THE WILD highlights various points of departure for solutions in the internet of the near future. When algorithms turn us transparent and controllable through predictability, perhaps we have to become more unpredictable; dissolving old structures, veering from the well-trodden path in favour of chaos and irrationality, heading INTO THE WILD. Yet this begs the questions: how will we navigate and find one another? How can one whisper into the global net and, in particular, with whom? Will those calling for a free and unrestricted internet not have to face being ever more vigilant and controlling of those who may partake and those who must stay out?

While the omni-surveilled net may have become draughty it will continue to protect its vital interests, learn to sidestep and manoeuvre and continue to develop. During the build-up to re:publica 2014, we will extend INTO THE WILD in search of unexpected technical solutions, surprising impulses stemming from business and politics and look forward to new, unbridled internet culture.

We are happy to announce the most exciting re:publica to date, happening from 6 – 8 May at STATION BERLIN.  

 Not despite, but distinctly because nothing is as it once seemed.


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