Esther Bauer
Esther Bauer is a project manager at D64 – Center for Digital Progress and a Fellow for International Digital Policy at the Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation. She is particularly interested in international digital policy and platform regulation, with a focus on the role of civil society in digital policy processes and the protection of human rights in the digital sphere, as well as decentralisation in the digital space.
She studied International Affairs at the Hertie School in Berlin and at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Previously, she worked at the ZDF, the International Network Against Cyber Hate in Amsterdam, and the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Session
This participatory workshop explores decentralization not just as an architectural choice but as a strategic design principle rooted in democratic values. Participants will work in small groups with real-world examples from public infrastructure, community projects to refine a shared set of conditions for decentralization that works as a value, not just as an architecture.