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Elisabeth Schauermann

Team leader of "Society and International Affairs" at the German Informatics Society

Elisabeth Schauermann heads the "Society and International Affairs" team at the Berlin office of the German Informatics Society. Her work focuses on digital sovereignty, internet governance and international networking. In tandem with AlgorithmWatch, Elisabeth leads the Digital Autonomy Hub, a center of excellence that coordinates an interdisciplinary network of 43 institutes and organizations. The Hub makes visible what partners are researching and what ideas they are developing to strengthen individual digital sovereignty. The goal of this knowledge transfer is to enable all people to deal with their data, devices and applications in a reflective and self-determined manner.