Δώρα Κοτσακά Professional Portfolio
Ερευνήτρια, Δρ. Πολιτικής Κοινωνιολογίας
September 7 – 10, 2023 in Linz Austria Participation in the Summit as representative of Local Expert Group (Onasis Stegi, GR) European Digital Deal (EU) Summit consists of introductory session, three working sessions, final presentation and optional activities during four full days. Digital Deal Summit is taking place in the frame of the European Digital…
Plásmata II: Ioannina | The new Ioannina Discussions on Art, Innovation, and Knowledge Friday 7 July 2023 “Dimitris Hatzis” Cultural Centre (Old Slaughterhouse), Ioannina Artificial Intelligence – Entrepreneurship – Art As Artificial Intelligence becomes increasingly apparent in more facets of our lives, the way we utilize it both in entrepreneurship and ultimately art becomes a…
Theodora Kotsaka ‘Dignity of Labor & technology: Is there a singularity of AI?’ at the Panel under the title Artificial Intelligence 3-5 November 2022 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Central Building, 30 Panepistimiou St. Abstract Dignity of labour & technology: Is there a singularity of AI? Into a decade GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook,…
22 JUN 2022 16:30 – 19.00 European Parliament – Brussels ASP 1G2 “Manolis Glezos” The results of successive electoral contests as well as the upcoming battles, the political shifts recorded in a number of countries and the recent developments have created new circumstances, which bring the Left to critical decisions which go further than…
Member of the Academic Committee of the ENA FORCE ‘4th Industrial Revolution: Changes and Opportunities for Europe’ (2020-2022), Jean Monnet Project (Erasmus+). Coordinator of the sector ‘Governing Knowledge Commons into the Framework of 4th Industrial Revolution’. https://enaforce.eu/academic-committee/ Project FORCE | Interview with experts | Interview with Dr. Theodora Kotsaka, Member of the FORCE Academic Committee,…
FORCE WORKSHOP – November 3, 2021, Conclusions of the FORCE event on Work in the 4th Industrial Revolution https://enaforce.eu/force-workshop/ Utilizing the potential of digital and knowledge commons In her speech, Dr Dora Kotsaka, following Mr Smyrnaios’ last remark on Platform Cooperativism, focused on the continuously expanding possibilities in wider economic sectors acquired by the…
Εισηγήτρια στο AI Summer School: Ethics in Disruptive Technologies: Insights and Boundaries 5-7 July 2021 Co-organisers: Onassis Foundation, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Center of Research and Bioethics Uppsala University, EPLO-IPR-i, OpenAIRE, BBMRI-ERIC Ethics in Disruptive Technologies: Insights and Boundaries Introductory Speeches | 12:00-12:20 Olga Tzortzatou Prodromos Tsiavos Round table…
Published at The Barricade, 9 September 2020 The problem is not either the digital world or the technology. It is the economic logic that is guiding it, which can be confronted only in political terms and with a political plan. Comprehending the economic logic of surveillance capitalism means exiting from the wonderland that has been…
Published at The Barricade, 4 August 2020 The shock of the coronavirus health crisis and the threat of Chinese digital giants, led to massive investment in the American digital giants. What does this mean for democracy and for the future “surveillance capitalism”? This article was published on 27 July 2020 at the site of Greek…
Organiser Asia Europe People’s Forum AEPF, Bangkok, Thailand, September 2019. Study and Strategy Meeting on China’s BRI Investments and Financing of Energy Projects Link to AEPF, https://aepf.info/ecological-justice-just-transition/
Theodora Kotsaka, Dr. Political Sociology, Independent Researcher Transform Europe (ed.), The Laughter of Medousa: The Left in Europe, Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung e-Dossier, June 2019, Belgium. 1. INTRODUCTION The article elaborates on two main arguments. Applied commons policies have been fragmented and operate almost exclusively in small scale. In order to escalate, the appropriate institutional and…
By Th. Kotsaka Published at Transform Yearbook, Radical Left in Europe, W. Baier, E. Canepa & H. Golemis (eds), London 2019 The Merlin Press. Introduction In what follows two principal arguments will be developed. Even though the discussion of the commons has become increasingly dynamic, reaching ever wider audiences, the applied commons policies remain fragmented…
Event production and introduction to the event by Theodora Kotsaka Short report and Video Nicos Poulantzas Institute in cooperation with transform! europe organized an open lecture of David Bollier, researcher, activist and writer of a series of books concerning Commons. Find here the short report of the event on 14 February. David Bollier /…
Event Production and intro to the event by Theodora Kotsaka As a continuation of NPI’s research work on ‘commons’, an open event was organized in Athens on 11 April in cooperation with transform! europe. The speech was given by Dr. Richard Stallman under the title ‘Copyright vs. Community’. Richard Stallman launched the free software…
Video’s on line Production and Commons Workshop By Roberto Morea | 30 Mar 16 | Posted under: Commons Activists and social researchers from across Europe discussed concrete ways to overcome the capitalist organization of production through commoning and factory workers’ self-management. Chantal Delmas and Roberto Morea at Officine Zero Activists and social researchers from…
By Th. Kotsaka Transform Yearbook, The enigma of Europe, W. Baier, E. Canepa & E. Himmelstos (eds), London 2016, The Merlin Press. The last decade in Western Europe has seen a dynamic of remunicipalisation in the water and energy sectors that is part of a global trend.1 Especially in the water sector, one municipality after…
This collaborative ethnographic film is about Skoros, an anti-consumerist collective in Exarcheia, Athens, that run a space where people could come and give, take, or give & take goods and services without any norms of reciprocity. Soon after came the Greek “Crisis”, a new kind of “here and now” focusing less on trying to do…
European Forum for Alternatives, Paris France. Party of the European Left and transform! transform! will participate in the two-day event with contributions on issues as diverse as productive transformation and European industrial policy, ecological transition (in view of the UN International Conference on Climate Change, December 2015 in Paris), the challenges of labour, social economy…
Concept, events production and intro & five seminars production by Theodora Kotsaka Short report of an open event and a set of seminars on common goods, peer-to-peer modes of production and cooperative economy, organised by the Nicos Poulantzas Institute in Athens from 8 to 13 November. Michel Bauwens At the beginning of November Michel…
9th Summer University ‘Stand up for Peace – In Solidarity’ of the European Left Party & Transform! Europe. Berlin, Germany, July 2014.