The Future of Code Politics: A conversation on Justice, Care and Technology

Author and community educator Mia Mingus and IT security expert and activist Lilith Wittmann will open the second day of the conference with a keynote conversation. During the presidency of Barack Obama, the White House chose Mia Mingus as one of “fifteen Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women as ‘Champions of Change’ who are doing extraordinary work to create a more safe, equal, and prosperous future for their communities and the country.” Her writings on transformative justice have strongly influenced both the theoretical and practical debates on disability justice and inspired alternatives to the punitive justice logic of the carceral state.
Lilith Wittmann has been making headlines for her research on security vulnerabilities in the public sector and for the development of digital infrastructure for the public interest. She was sued by the conservative political party CDU for responsibly disclosing security gaps in the software they deployed. The affair fostered an international conversation about the security and care obligations of political parties when using technologies with their voters. With her initiative Bundesstelle für open data (Federal Office for Open Data) she pushed the standards to make government data accessible on a new level.
Together they will discuss questions around transformative justice, care and technology in the institutional context.

The complete program of the conference: https://www.kampnagel.de/en/program/sf22-konferenz-teil-1/