Karsten has conducted many workshops on digital topics including digitalization, social media, and data analysis. As a digital consultant with over ten years of international experience, he works on methodologies and frameworks for agile, user centric, and data driven approaches.
His interests include topics such as social media’s conflicting role regarding open societies and authoritarian regimes, the advancement of big data in the development sector, tech entrepreneurship, and digital literacy education.
Karsten holds a Magister Artium in Sinology and Communication Science at Free University Berlin and Technical University Berlin.
In 2015, he has been a Visiting Academic Fellow at the Mercator Institute of China Studies (MERICS).