Skip to content
04 June 2012

Xinnovations – Forum for Internet, politics and Innovation

For their 10th anniversary, the Xinnovations are inviting experts form all over the world in order to discuss the interplay between the Internet, society and innovation from September 10th until September 12th 2012. The event is organised in co-operation with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG).
Within the essential thematic blocks “Corporate Semantik Web”, “Internet enabled Innovation” and “Innovation Society and Politics” researchers, entrepreneurs, politicans, developer of innovative information technologies and their user come together in order discuss about chances and disadvantages within this field and think ahead about these.
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society is especially involved in the organisation of the thematic field “Internet enabled Innovation” on September 11, 2012 which will open up with a keynote by Professor Thomas Schildhauer. Within the sessions “Perspective Science & Development” “Perspective Society” and “Perspective Economics”, three speakers will open each discussion with a short impulse lecture.
You can find a preview of the programme here. 

This post represents the view of the author and does not necessarily represent the view of the institute itself. For more information about the topics of these articles and associated research projects, please contact info@hiig.de.

Martin Pleiss

Sign up for HIIG's Monthly Digest

HIIG-Newsletter-Header

You will receive our latest blog articles once a month in a newsletter.

Explore current HIIG Activities

Discussion Dossiers

HIIG is currently working on exciting topics. Learn more about our interdisciplinary pioneering work in public discourse.

Further articles

Three human silhouettes are depicted mid-stride, each comprising of a collage of hardware used to develop AI including circuit boards and CPU chips. In the background there is a black and grey gradient with smoke. Beneath the runners from the left, there are two rectangle panels which run across the image, one is red and the other is blue.

Brave new world of work? Narratives on AI and the future of work

A comparison between German and US-American public discourse shows how different narratives on AI shape the future of work.

The photo shows the entrance area of an event: while people wait and an older man speaks at a standing lectern in an open space symbolising democracy without borders.

Democracy without borders? Global citizenship between platform power, AI and the crisis of knowledge

A look back and ahead at ten years of constitutional thinking across state borders.

Playing cards on a table with a hidden ace, representing the high-stakes game of platform regulation under the Digital Services Act.

Cards on the table: Making sense of the Digital Services Act

This article revisits the origins and core mechanisms of the Digital Services Act and asks what lessons they hold for the upcoming review process.