It was a demanding timetable. When Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt announced our intention to fund an Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin last February, we and four distinguished university partners aimed to launch by autumn. Together we made the deadline. More than 500 guests from politics, business, media and science this week packed the Auditorium Maximum of Berlin's Humboldt University for the opening the Alexander von Humboldt Institute.Birgit Grundmann , Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, spoke personally of the challenges of the digital world. This institution “interests me as the mother of two Internet addicted children," she said. “What are the information gaps and what must citizens be better informed about? The issue of transparency requires further research, as does data and consumer protection, and the question of the limits of anonymity on the net."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.Posted by Max Senges, Google Policy, Germany
Very useful step you are going to take. This will be also good for Berlin. We can find many things after opening a Internet Research Institute.
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