In preparation for the report "Our common digital future", the WBGU held in June 2018 a public consultation round on "Digitization and sustainability: What future do we want to shape?". The background was the paper "Digitization - what we need to talk about". In 2018 the WBGU was co-host of the 26th EEAC Annual Conference "Towards a Sustainable Europe by 2030: Key leverages for transformation". The first public presentation of the report "Our common digital future" took place in April 2019 in cooperation with the KfW, a German state-owned development bank. The WBGU In July 2019, this report was presented at a side event of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York at the German permanent mission, and in September, also in New York, at the SDG Summit. In December 2019, the WBGU organized the research conference "Shaping the Future - Digital and sustainable", (in German) in cooperation with the Ministry of Research ( BMBF) and the Weizenbaum-Institut.