Active Projects
Short Vita
Cathleen Bergers professional experience spans across sectors: academia, government, non-profit, corporate, and early stage start-up. Her work and research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies, sustainability, and social impact.
She currently works with the Bertelsmann Stiftung as Co-Team Lead for Upgrade Democracy and Senior Expert on future technologies and sustainability. In addition, she occasionally advises and works with social purpose companies and organisations on their climate and social impact strategies.
Previously, she directed the B Corporation certification process of a pre-seed climate tech start-up, launched and headed up Mozillas environmental sustainability programme, worked within the International Cyber Policy Coordination Staff at the German Foreign Office, as a consultant with Global Partners Digital, a research assistant at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and a visiting lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
Publications
- Disconcerted Public
- Verunsicherte Öffentlichkeit
- The EU Elections 2024: How to build resilience against disinformation campaigns on social platforms
- Potentials of small platforms: What can we learn from them?
- EU-Wahlen 2024: Wie wir resilienter gegen Desinformationskampagnen auf sozialen Plattformen werden
- Bedrohungen für die Demokratie: Klima-Fehlinformationen und geschlechtsspezifische Desinformation
- Threats to democracy: Climate misinformation and gendered disinformation
- Rat beim Beirat: Potenzial von Plattformbeiräten
- Good advice: How online platforms can benefit from social media councils
- Potenziale von kleineren Plattformen: Was können wir von ihnen lernen?
- Decentralization as Democratization: Mastodon as an Alternative to Platform Power
- Dezentralisierung als Demokratisierung: Mastodon statt Plattformmacht
External Publications
- We “pledge” action: The delay and diffuse tactics of climate misinformation (12.11.2022)
- The Promise of AI: Can It Hold for Environmental Sustainability? (01.06.2021)