Internet as a motor for societal innovation

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Oliver Gassmann's Keynote will discuss opportunities and challenges of the Internet for science, innovation and society.

• What are the potentials?
• Where are the limits?...

The term business model became popular with the rise of the Internet and electronic businesses as a means to explain how an organization works. With innovations also the way how customers interact with firms and thus with their products has changed, leading to a world, where companies compete on the basis of their business models. This is also reflected in the many facets of...

If it is true that territorial coercive governmental force remains the hallmark of governance in the internet age then it should be the territorial constitution that directs but also restrains this force. While already considerable thought has been devoted to the issue of how the reading of certain fundamental rights and constitutional principles and the understanding of...

The internet is not merely a social phenomenon, it is more than that, it is of constitutional importance. Various academic disciplines have acknowledged this innovation‘s significance and selective internet-related issues have already been discussed from a legal perspective. But while these legal discussions have remained predominantly selective, no one has recently and...

Researchers across disciplines generally agree that some form of public domain is necessary for an open society in general and for innovation in particular. Consensus ends, however, when questions are raised such as what should be part of the public domain and how should the public domain be regulated? After reviewing the current state of debate, this workshop tries to...

Open Statecraft: Strategy for a N2N World

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Five years ago, in 2006, O’Reilly (who earlier had coined the term web 2.0) called for government 2.0 or „government as a platform.” In 2009, President Obama published the Memo on Open Government and defined...

Searching and finding information on the Web, something that now appears to be determining the production and dissemination of knowledge within our society to an ever increasing extent, is often summed up using the catchphrase ‘Googlization’. The spreading GeoWeb in general and the user-driven production of geo-referenced information in particular (by geo-tagging,...

Intermediates often play a crucial role in the field of socially relevant communication, even if the configurations and structures can be quite different. The discussion revolving around “Open data” indicates that new sources of socially relevant information emerge. In the triangle between data providers, users and service providers it is unlikely that case-by-case solutions...

CyberAnthropology is an approach that submits anthropological and philosophical questions (as well as sociological, political and linguistic questions including questions of constitutional law arising from them) to different fields associated with the internet – which has not been done in this specific transdisciplinary way in previous research.

We analyse changes,...

The workshop covers a report from a study done over the last several months that looked at the technological innovations that the Internet may experience over the next decade in an attempt to understand some of the possible policy issues that would emerge. The workshop will start by exploring the links between technology and policy. The basic proposition to be...

„Humanism and Technology“

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- What is the technological view of the self?
- How is this present in issues around online identity, personalization and privacy?
- What is the role of the Humanities in this discussion?

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11:00 – 11:20 Discussion at the tables
11:20 – 11:30 Summary by the moderator

12:00 – 12:20 Discussion at the tables
12:20 – 12:30 Summary by the moderator