In February of this year, our Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced that we would support the establishment of an Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. This Tuesday, we’re thrilled to announce the Institute’s official opening at the Humboldt University. Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and Google Senior Vice President David Drummond will speak. More than 400 politicians, academics and civil society representatives are expected to attend. Humboldt University , the University of the Arts , and the Social Science Research Center Berlin . The Hamburg Hans Bredow Institute joins as a co-operation partner. Each institution is seconding a distinguished academic. Dr. h.c. Ingolf Pernice will study constitutional aspects of the Internet. The Social Science Research Center’s Dr. Jeanette Hofmann will probe Internet policy, while the University of the Arts’s Prof. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer will look at the Internet and innovation and Hamburg’s Dr. Wolfgang Schulz will weigh in on the Internet’s impact on media. Alexander von Humboldt , the Institute’s namesake, was once described by Charles Darwin as "the greatest scientific traveler who ever lived". He is remembered as one of the founders of modern geography, thought leader of the Enlightenment and an explorer whose travels, experiments, and knowledge transformed science in the nineteenth century.Urs Gasser , St. Gallen University’s Oliver Gassmann , Haifa University’s Niva Elkin-Koren , and many others.UPDATES: 25/10/2011, 10:30 PM: Photos from the opening event posted below. Minister Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was unfortunately unable to attend the opening event due to urgent negotiations ahead of the Euro Area Summit in Brussels, but Secretary of State Dr. Birgit Grundmann kindly stood in for the Minister and gave an excellent, inspiring speech. The Auditorium Maximum of Berlin's Humboldt University, packed with 500 guests from politics, business and science.
David Drummond welcomes our guests and makes his opening remarks.
The four academic directors of the institute Prof. Ingolf Pernice, Dr. Jeanette Hofmann, Prof. Thomas Schildhauer and Dr. Wolfgang Schulz (from left to right) with David Drummond.
Posted by Max Senges, Google Policy, Germany
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