Alongside panelists Paul Nemitz (Chief Advisor for Digital Transformation Strategies, EU Commission), Philipp Schild (Programme Director of funk) and Professor Christian Pentzold (University of Leipzig), EFF's Associate Director of EU Policy, Svea Windwehr, will join a discussion  to speak about changing digital public spaces, and how to shape them. The digital transformation of the public sphere is blamed for many of today's ills: from the polarization of societies to the radicalization of individual groups, for private or state surveillance, for censorship and a toxic culture of discussion. But couldn't there be another way? How could the public sphere be organized and institutionalized so that it increases citizens' opportunities for information and participation, so that it serves the common good rather than commercial imperatives? For many years, proposals have been circulating for a revolutionary redesign of the digital public sphere, which could be federated or organized as a cooperative, which could promote and curate participation differently, which should be more open and at the same time more civil. The panel will focus on proposals and ideas for a different digital public sphere.