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We cordially invite you to our public discussion, an event held within the initiative Globalization and the Internet, lead by Internet & Society Collaboratory and the blogger project FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The event – to be held mostly in English – will deal with the interactions between the Internet, trade and […]

The second “Globalization and the Internet” workshop – hosted by Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory in Berlin – took place at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin at the end of August. The participants of this workshop started a magazine sprint which will result in a publication […]

  “Internet und Globalisierung” lautet die Überschrift der derzeitigen Kooperation des virtuellen Think Tanks Internet & Gesellschaft Collaboratory und unserem Projekt Futurechallenges.org. Wie beeinflussen sich Globalisierung und die Entwicklung des Internets gegenseitig? Die aktuellen Verhandlungen um ein Freihandelsabkommen zwischen den USA und der EU fokussieren dabei alle zentralen Fragen, die […]

Last month Future Challenges and the Internet and Society Collaboratory organized a kick-off workshop for the “Globalization and the Internet: Information, People, Goods” project in Berlin. Some 30 experts with various professional backgrounds came to a former supermarket in Berlin to form different working groups. Four working groups will discuss […]

It’s now official: TAFTA/TTIP is finally on the negotiation table with the potential to become solid transatlantic reality within the next two or three years. The extremely short timeframe of this joint endeavor might sound very ambitious. Yet both the EU and the US are eager to sign this far-reaching agreement […]