Kick-off Workshop: Challenging Corruption: Empowering Future Voices
Wednesday 13 October, 17:00-19:00 CEST, Online
With: Michael Hornsby (Communications Consultant, Anti-Corruption Data Collective, UK/DE)
Online workshop | Language: English
Limited spots: apply via https://ihpedebb.paperform.co (deadline 4 October)
“Exposing Systems of Power and Injustice” is at the core of the work of the Disruption Network Lab: we organise participatory, interdisciplinary, international events in Berlin and online, with the objective of strengthening freedom of speech, and exposing the misconduct and wrongdoing of the powerful. The work on anti-corruption, dedicated to exposing and countering the effects of dishonest behavior by those in positions of power, has been an inspiration for our events: we for example discussed issues of financial corruption and tax havens in our DARK HAVENS conference (April 2019), and we recently looked at abuses and wrongdoing in the course of the COVID-19 crisis in BEHIND THE MASK (March 2021).
In the project Challenging Corruption: Empowering Future Voices, we now invite you to join us to reflect on new ways of challenging corruption in our societies, through a series of online workshops and public online conversations within our Disruptive Fridays series.
How can we imagine a society with less corruption, more transparency and less power intrigue, where there is the freedom to investigate and denounce abuses? Which informational, political, technological and artistic countermeasures against corruption in politics, healthcare, financial markets or education can we imagine together?
Join us on 13 October for the kick-off workshop, where we will analyse and imagine possible future solutions, tools and approaches for countering corruption across different countries and regions. After an introduction of different types of corruption and inspirational real-life examples of anti-corruption innovations, we will divide into groups to brainstorm new approaches to tackling corruption across different fields.
Together, we decide which core fields of work to focus our attention on, as well as shape the Disruptive Fridays public online conversations that will take place between November 2021 – March 2022. Over the course of the project, we will stay in touch during the online Disruptive Fridays, to discuss relevant issues with invited experts, after which a follow-up workshop in April 2022 will close off the series. We will issue a certificate of participation to everyone joining the workshops.
Workshop Facilitator
Michael Hornsby is a communications professional specialising in strategic communications to support sustainable development. Among other roles, he currently serves as a communications consultant to the Anti-Corruption Data Collective, an innovative project bringing together leading journalist, data analysts, academics and policy advocates to expose and undermine corruption. He previously worked for over three years at Transparency International, the global anti-corruption coalition, leading media relations and communications responses to fast-emerging threats to anti-corruption worldwide. He has worked in publishing, media and public relations since graduating from SOAS, University of London, in 2011.
Call for applications (deadline is over!)
Workshop spots are free of charge but limited: please apply here to be part of this event
This workshop is focused at people between 18-30 years of age from Europe, Africa and the Middle East
We will inform you in the week of 4 October on the selection
We will issue a certificate of participation to everyone joining the workshops
This workshop forms part of the project ‘Challenging Corruption: Empowering Future Voices’, funded by GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) as commissioned by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany.