Summary of re:publica 11, day 3

The last day started with Sandro Gaycken, talking about cyber attacks.
Most protected data stay out of internet because it’s impossible to secure it to 100% (e.g. Pentagon, Military data). The biggest danger stays the reliability of people having access to sensitive data.
High protection = people’s curiosity = challenge = motivation for hackers.
But cyber attacks do not only target military or governmental institutions. The industry is also concerned regarding automated productions (automobile, pharmaceutics etc.)
The medical sector isn’t spared and has regularly to face “hacking operations” as well. The risks are even higher in this case: such institution often cannot afford a high level of protection…
This lecture proved us how insecure our exchanges could be. From military strategy to call centers as well as water distribution and online payment: everything is interconnected and thus, vulnerable.

Chris Strauß, Nana Yuriko and Andreas Bischof shared their experiences about crowdfounding. Crowfounding means getting capital from a community: it can be 2 euros as 50K. Especially interesting for start ups seeking starting capital, this lecture was a pretty good testimonial. Crowdfunding can indeed shatter the whole management of the start-up. Useful tools are platforms like inkubato.com and visionbackery.com.
A good article about crowdfounding has already been written by Danielle on the webblog: see here

After a short trip on a boat (re:boot), LOOM attended the entertaining lecture of Kixka Nebraska, whose lecture “Icons, a iconographic analyze of the german society” closed the re:publica.
Erwin Panofsky was one of the first guy to develop a theory about iconography and iconology in 1975. An icon enables identification and identity.
It takes all this importance in our real time digital society: we need to be recognized among the constant flow of users.
She points out a pretty interesting discovery from Adam Harvey that avoids the face regnition by the majority of software (check it out!).

This third and last day was focused on security and crowdfunding and finished covering the palette of the current digital trends. It was definitely an intense and successful conference. We only deplore not being able to follow other speeches that have taken place simultaneously in the other rooms…

see the summary of day one
see the summary of day two