To change the world it is necessary to understand the world. With the podcast series "Global Perspectives" the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) provides insights into its engagement in almost 70 countries in Europe and around the globe. Based on the values of democracy and participation the HSF supports regional developments and creates opportunities for an active exchange and discourse between stakeholders and those in charge. What different perceptions exist on international topics? What can be done to improve mutual understanding? How can we contribute to sustainable development by strengthening peace, democracy, rule of law and social market economy? The podcast series addresses these questions and outlines some projects of the Hanns Seidel Foundation. /// Um die Welt zu verändern, muss man die Welt verstehen. Mit der neuen Podcast-Reihe "Global Perspectives" bietet die Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (HSS) Einblicke in ihr Engagement in fast 70 Ländern in Europa und der Welt. Auf Basis der Werte der Demokratie und Teilhabe unterstützt die HSS regionale Entwicklungen und schafft Gelegenheiten für einen aktiven Austausch und Diskurs zwischen Interessens- und Verantwortungsträgern. Welche unterschiedlichen Wahrnehmungen gibt es zu internationalen Themen? Was kann getan werden, um das gegenseitige Verständnis zu verbessern? Wie können wir durch die Stärkung von Frieden, Demokratie, Rechtsstaat und sozialer Marktwirtschaft einen Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung leisten? Mit diesen Fragen setzt sich die Podcast-Reihe auseinander und berichtet aus einigen Projekten der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung.
Can you still trust your own online trail? The invisible threads of digital manipulation are so subtle, and yet they have an enormous power. In our new episode of #GlobalPerspectives, we, like #AI and #BigData, re-explore the rules of free opinion formation "Writing and not only distorting our perception, but also endangering our #democracy.
You want to check further information on this topic? Here are some links to dig in deeper:
· EU Digital Services Act
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/08/24/how-europes-new-digital-law-will-change-the-internet
· Today’s world and technology: Key issues
https://www.humanetech.com/key-issues
· Technology and democracy
https://www.humanetech.com/democratic-functioning
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/28/artificial-intelligence-powering-politics-reboot-democracy
· Solutions
https://www.humanetech.com/solutions
https://www.humanetech.com/policymakers
· First closed-door AI Insight Forum in Washington, D.C. on 13.9.2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/technology/silicon-valley-ai-washington-schumer.html
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/13/23872478/ai-tech-regulation-leaders-insight-forum
21 Aug 2023
Africa between East and West, global power shifts and a new world? – How is Africa and Europe responding to challenges and opportunities of advancing the rules based system
Since the COVID-pandemic and Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, global fault lines have deepened. System rivalry is becoming a buzzword and Africa seems to be in the center of it.
With the Russia-Africa Summit, which took place recently in St. Petersburg, the upcoming BRICS Summit in August in Johannesburg, and the Unite Nations Future Summit next year in New York there is a lot of discussion but also speculation in the international community about a new international order or a new world. While there is not necessarily alignment between and within BRICS and the states of the global south on how a new international system should be structured there is common push for a reform of the global governance intuitions.
What role should Africa and Europe play to respond to challenges and opportunities of advancing the international rules-based system in a shifting geopolitical context?
To that end Hanns Bühler from our Hanns Seidel Foundation office in South Africa talks to African and European scholars:
- Dr. Jakkie Cilliers, Head of the African Futures and Innovation Team at African Institute for Security Studies headquartered in Pretoria
and
- Dr. Stefan Mair, Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Executive Chairman of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
20 Aug 2023
Russia in Africa and the Wagner Group
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reactions on the African continent were and still are divided. Africa remains the voting block with the most abstentions at the UN-resolutions on the war.
Although being a minor economical player compared to the USA, China, or the EU, it seems that Russia is exercising an outsized degree of political influence across some parts of Africa. One key instrument of Russia’s engagement on the continent is the Wagner Group - Yevgeny Prigozhins private military company which is undermining democratic progresses, stability, as well as Western interests. How influential is Russia on the African continent? What are Wagner’s prospects and objectives in Africa after the mutiny? And what should African states and international partners do to enhance economic progress and stability?
With:
Julia Stanyard, Thierry Vircoulon, Julian Rademeyer, “The Grey Zone. Russia’s military, mercenary and criminal engagement in Africa”, Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime
Report:
https://bit.ly/3qAs8jA
Executive Summary:
https://bit.ly/44igkAl
and
Priyal Singh, “Russia-Africa relations in an age of renewed great power competition”, Institute for Security Studies
Report:
https://bit.ly/3OJYws2
Executive Summary:
https://bit.ly/47CVyhx
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