Berlin, 8 April 2020 – What will our digital society look like in 2040? How will we live and love, how will we teach and work, and how will our legal system change? Researchers from 10 countries took a look into the future as part of the “twentyforty” project. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for…

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A study by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and Sirius Minds analysed how small and medium-sized enterprises tackle the digital transformation. Berlin, 28. März 2019 – Ob intelligente Müllentsorgung mittels einer Smartphone-App, der Aufbau einer Internet of Things-Plattform zu Zwecken der Produktivitätssteigerung oder Smart Glasses für besseren Kundenservice: Im deutschen Mittelstand…

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Berlin, 13 March 2019 – The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for the Internet and Society (HIIG) and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics are starting to implement the joint project Innovative Open Access in the Small Sciences, which will be an exemplary extension of the Open Access journal Internet Policy Review. The project aims to provide…

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Good news for small and medium-sized companies from Berlin, Brandenburg and throughout Germany: _Gemeinsam digital, the Mittelstand 4.0-Kompetenzzentrum Berlin, will be extended for another two years. With the approval of a further three million euros, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi) is now funding the centre with a total of around 7.5 million…

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The essay competition “twentyforty – Utopias for a digital society” invites researchers worldwide to describe their visions of a digital society in 20 years from now. Berlin, 16 January 2019 – How will we decide, live and love in 2040? How will we shape education and the way we work in the future? The European Hub…

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