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People who stand up for human rights often put themselves in danger. The dark web offers activists, journalists and people who are politically persecuted a space for encrypted communication and anonymity.
The London-based research agency Forensic Architecture uses digital technology to shed light on human rights violations. Architectural models reconstruct what happened to help make injustices visible.
What's it like to live under a repressive regime? A DW game offers players an immersive way to find out. Via chat, users help analyze the disappearance of a person in a fictional surveillance state. dw.com/freedomgame
Digital technologies are data-driven. But who has access to the data, and who is allowed to use it? Digital sovereignty means that people can decide for themselves how their data is used.
Lina Khan is the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission. She is a strong critic of the big tech companies, and is calling for antitrust legislation that can respond to changing conditions in a digital economy.
The GAFA companies Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple largely owe their market dominance to years of unchecked data collection. The services they off are free, but users have been indirectly paying with their data.
When art historian Andrew Tallon created 3D models of Notre Dame years ago, he had no idea how valuable they would become. After a fire destroyed large parts of the cathedral, his work became key to its restoration.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is threatening the country’s digitally stored cultural heritage. When servers are destroyed, online archives can be too. SUCHO is a collective working from abroad to safeguard this content.
World-famous monuments are being threatened by climate change, wars, and neglect. 3D scans, drones, and AI can be used to create digital backups of iconic buildings and other cultural treasures.
African Digital Heritage is an initiative digitizing tens of thousands of books and photographs so that people around the world can access these cultural assets. Choosing what to digitize is one way of writing history.
This high-tech kite system consists of three main components: a stunt kite, specially-designed cables and a control cabin. In order to generate reliable electricity, the kites climb beyond the height of wind turbines.
An Indian company is using drones for more effective reforestation and for planting brand new forests. The drones are also helping sow seeds in hard-to-reach areas.
10% of the world's population do not have a reliable electricity source. To help rural areas get power, experiments with decentralized energy networks are currently underway. In Sierra Leone, it's all about solar energy.
In the future, people should be able to experience VR with all of their senses. Haptic gloves and suits like TeslaSuit and TactGlove are already making virtual worlds more tangible.
Experts believe the Metaverse is set to radically transform our working and personal lives. Opportunities for manipulation could well multiply. VR pioneer Louis Rosenberg says we must learn lessons from today's mistakes.
Although they only exist in the virtual world, Metaverse properties are selling for large sums. Traded in cryptocurrencies, they are owned as NFTs. The business is both profitable and risky.
Entire factory buildings can be reproduced in the virtual world of Omniverse. The 3D simulations look amazingly realistic. And things can be tried out in this "digital twin" without having to be on site.
In self-driving vehicles, the engine will no longer be so important. It's all about the computer—as data from radar, lidar and other sensors must be analyzed in real time and processed by the AI.
The US company Nvidia has created a driving simulation platform to train self-driving cars. A virtual world with large data sets, where all possible traffic situations are played out.
Cryptocurrencies have officially been banned in Nigeria since 2021. Instead, there is a state digital currency: the eNaira. It will benefit those sections of the population that do not have their own bank account.
Cryptocurrencies are booming and people are increasingly using them as investments. What should you know before investing in digital currency?
Anasuya Sengupta wants to see more gender diversity at Wikipedia. Her "VisibleWikiWomen" initiative managed to get more than 15,000 photos of women uploaded to the site so far, and its fourth campaign is about to start.
Both digital hardware and software have largely been designed by men. But more and more women are entering the digital world and want their values to shape the industry.
Internet access is a key to a better professional world––an opportunity that has so far remained closed to many women in the Global South. 75 percent of all women in rural India, for example, have never been online.
