Join us and our distinguished speaker Fadia Elgharib (Global Innovation Gathering) for a discussion on designing and sustaining online communities. The event will be moderated by Prof. Daniela Stockmann (Centre for Digital Governance).
This event will provide an informal setting for participants to explore how digital governance frameworks are applied in real-world scenarios. Together with Fadia Elgaribh, we will explore how online communities can remain robust and effective during challenging times, such as pandemics, natural disasters, or social upheavals. In addition, we will gain insights into the role of social structures—such as norms, rules, roles, and networks—in fostering community resilience. Within this framework, we encourage participants to ask the speaker about her professional journey and challenges.
The discussion will be followed by a networking reception. 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
Fadia Elgharib is a Berlin-based digital media activist and corporate lawyer from Cairo, Egypt. She has been part of the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG) network since 2018 and currently serves as the Community Manager of GIG. Since 2020, Fadia also works to curate and coordinate the Makerspace at the annual re:publica Festival on topics of digital society.
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.