Regula Staempfli has been working on art, digital design, digital transformation, IT, social media for years. She has produced numerous books on the topic, going back to 2003 where she warned universities, institutions and parties to be controlled by data. She called it by 2007 “the conquest of the world as a code”. She is leading a future podcast for the SWISS SOCIAL SCIENCES in collaboration with TA-SWISS (TA-SWISS promotes public debate and facilitates democratic decision-making \u2013 because technological advances should serve people, not the other way around.) listen in to www.ta-swiss-futurepodcast.online<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here the introduction on Codes & Democracies: \u201eDigital democracy\u201c is actually an oxymoron: \u201eDigital\u201c means artificial, whereas\u201cDemocracy\u201c is worldly. And when it comes to democracy, the virtual world is like Swiss cheese: full of holes. What has so far been called \u201edata bias\u201c isnot merely encoded prejudice, but a methodological gap. Uncritical coding keeps the real world on ideological crutches. Political philosopher Regula Staempfli\u2019s article is a plea: not just for democracy to be digitalized, but that digitalization should finally be democratized.<\/strong>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n