It was an intense but rewarding conference of 140 experts from around the Mediterranean at the annual EuroMeSCo conference in Barcelona, 18 and 19 June 2019. The event reconfirmed how much the Mediterranean world needs to work with each other to fix the endless overlapping problems plaguing the countries hugging the splendid middle sea. Climate change was voted the most pressing issue and the one most likely to bring all countries on board to tackle it. The paper I presented was titled “Does the digital realm fragment civil society?” I am working towards publishing it with EuroMesco by the end of the year.