Olaf Berberich

AUTHOR OF REFERENCE BOOKS AND DOCU-FICTION ON DIGITAL DEMOCRACY

QUALIFICATION IN THE EVALUATION OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR:

- Studies in psychology, sociology, philosophy and patholinguistics.

- Training adult illiterates and developing own reading learning method.

- Training of 300 unemployed academics and placement in management positions.

QUALIFICATION ECONOMICS:

- Entrepreneur in printing, software development, training, policy consulting/standardization.

- Over 20 years evaluator at start2grow Dortmund start-up competition.

QUALIFICATION TECHNOLOGY:

- 24 own patent applications to support a digital democratic society.

QUALIFICATION POLITICS:

- 30 years of attempts to convince politicians to proactively shape the digital society.

- Member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and the Free Democratic Party.

- Head of an expert committee Digital Democracy in the FDP.

- Participation in over 70 EU Commission initiatives with own statements.

CONVICTION:

- With the current tendency to use IT for surveillance and manipulation, autocracies will drive democracies out.

- Only through massive citizen engagement can democracies persist in the digital age.

USE MY BOOKS AS A BASIS FOR DISCUSSION! CONVINCE OTHERS; THAT WE MUST ACT NOW!!!