Geraldine de Bastion

Geraldine is a political scientist with many years of experience working with activists, governments, start-ups, and NGOs around the world. Her focus: digitalization, innovation, and human rights. In 2013, Geraldine founded the Global Innovation Gathering, a world wide network of  of innovation hubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and other grassroots innovation communities alongside individual innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers.

Geraldine is also a long-time member of the curatorial team of re:publica, Europe’s largest conference on the internet and society, and a sought after speaker and moderator at digital innovation and society events such as TedX and other thought leadership conferences as well as a spokesperson for digital rights and civil society topics, representing civil society in different boards and juries. Geraldine authored and filmed the 2018 Arte documentary “Digital Africa” and runs research and innovation projects such as the distributed manufacturing project mAkE and authors studies such as the CODES commissioned paper “Toward a Just and Sustainable Digital Transformation for People and the Planet”.