The Bits & Bäume Panel of Supporters currently comprises 13 organisations from the fields of environmental protection, digital policy, development policy and science. The organisations are united by an integrative understanding of sustainability and the will to shape a future in which digital change plays a positive role and supports and protects people, livelihoods and the environment. The Panel of Supporters unites the diverse expertise of the organisations and promotes sustainable digitalisation for the common good from different perspectives.
The Berlin Ethics Lab for Responsible AI and Human-Machine Interaction is an interdisciplinary laboratory at TU Berlin. It deals with social challenges posed by AI and robotics. Formats for research, education, consultation and exchange are developed together with various stakeholders. The aim is to analyze and negotiate common values and norms in dealing with new technologies in the digital society.
As the worldwide development agency of the Protestant churches in Germany, we are active in more than 90 countries around the globe. Together with local partners, we help impoverished and marginalised people to improve their living conditions through their own efforts.
As an independent youth organization of BUND (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland – German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation), BUNDjugend is active across all 16 federal states. It is one of Germany’s largest youth environmental organizations. With 82,600 members under the age of 27, it is committed to environmental protection and climate justice through diverse campaigns and projects, engaging events, and impactful demonstrations and actions.
The Chaos Computer Club is a galactic community of living beings, irrespective of age, gender and descent as well as social position, which campaigns across borders for freedom of information, a right to hack and informational self-determination. It deals with the effects of technologies on society as well as on individual living creatures and promotes knowledge about this development.
The German Nature Conservation Ring ( Deutscher Naturschutzring, DNR) is the umbrella organisation of German nature, animal and environmental protection organisations. The DNR coordinates and networks, intervenes in political debate and campaigns for a better world tomorrow. Together with our nearly 100 member organisations from the fields of species and animal protection, climate, nature and environmental protection, organic farming, nature sports and science, we are committed to a diverse, cosmopolitan and tolerant civil society.
The German Trade Union Confederation (DGB – Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) is committed to shaping digitalization in the world of work in a fair and just manner through various approaches and formats. This aligns perfectly with our debates on socially and ecologically just digitalization.
FIfF is an association of committed-critical professionals from academia and practice of information (technology). We reflect on the consequences of our work, warn against harmful developments and contribute our own constructive ideas. We advise politicians and the media, publish our own journal and organise conferences, lectures and demonstrations. FIfF is organised in regional groups and was founded in 1984.
The Free Software Foundation Europe is a non-profit association that supports people in the self-determined use of technology. Software is deeply embedded in all aspects of our lives. Free software gives everyone the right to use, understand, distribute and improve programmes for any purpose. These rights strengthen other fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the right to privacy.
We are an independent and non-profit environmental and development organisation that has been working for global justice and the preservation of livelihoods for 30 years. To this end, we conduct dialogues with political, business and civil society representatives, produce science-based analyses, carry out educational work and inform the public and consumers. Our topics are sustainable digitalisation, climate policy, corporate responsibility, world food supplies, land use, trade and education for sustainable development.
The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung, IÖW) is a leading scientific institute in the field of practice-oriented sustainability research. Around 70 employees develop strategies and approaches for sustainable economic activity - for an economy that enables a good life and preserves natural foundations. The independent and non-profit institute co-initiated the first Bits & Trees Conference 2018.
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie has been working as a collective for a social, ecological and democratic economy and society for 10 years. Topics include degrowth, education, climate justice, digitalisation and care (work). In addition to educational events, the association also organises conferences, connects civil society, activists, scientific and political actors and publishes e.g. articles and educational materials on digitalisation and socio-ecological transformation.
The Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute is a collaborative project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It conducts interdisciplinary and fundamental research into the transformation of society through digitalisation and develops policy options for politics, business and civil society. The aim is to better understand the dynamics, mechanisms and implications of digitalisation.
In 2004, volunteer Wikipedia contributors founded the non-profit association Wikimedia Deutschland, which now has over 100,000 members. As a non-profit organization, we are part of a global movement dedicated to free knowledge. We support volunteers in all Wikimedia projects, develop open-source software and technology, advocate for open science, education, and culture, and work to strengthen political frameworks that enable free access to knowledge. Our vision is a world in which all people can share, use, and expand the entirety of human knowledge.