Paneldiskussion & Screening: Prekäre Strukturen im globalen Datenkapitalismus

In the organizer's words:

How does global data capitalism work - and who bears the costs? In this panel event - a cooperation with Festival für Politik im Freien Theater - Francesca Schmidt (bpb) will discuss the diagnosis of digital colonialism and its implications for today's world of work with journalist and net politics expert Ingo Dachwitz. We will then show the film "Unknown Label" by Nicolas Gourault. It shows the everyday life of online microworkers from the Global South who train AI systems.

4 p.m. Lecture and talk by Ingo Dachwitz
17:30 Screening "Unknown Label" and Q&A Nicolas Gourault

The event will focus on the often invisible but fundamental role of data work: people who moderate content, prepare training data for AI or control algorithms - often under precarious conditions and in the Global South. Who benefits from this form of digital exploitation? What power relations are reproduced in the architecture of digital platforms? But the question of the ecological impact of the needs of Western societies for their digital infrastructure is also addressed: Under what conditions are raw materials and materials for digital technologies obtained? How does the export of important raw materials affect the countries of origin? And how can we contribute to better conditions?

The event is being held in cooperation with the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the 12th Festival for Politics in Independent Theater as part of the exhibition "Robotron. Code and Utopia" (25.10.25-22.2.26).