HIIG_Webcast Interview Ingolf Pernice - Urs Gasser

In this interview Prof. Ingolf Pernice, director of the HIIG, had the opportunity to talk to Prof. Urs Gasser, Executive Director of the Berkman Center, Harvard University.
The Berkman Center is one of the first research institutes in using a transdisciplinary approach for research on the Internet. Prof. Gasser is one of the leading experts in the area. One of his recent studies focusses on the specific characteristics of young Internet users, the so-called Born Digitals. Another current subject is the technical interoperability including organizational and societal consequences ensuing from this. In this interview he emphasizes the need of a specific European perspective on issues like privacy or liability of intermediaries, to name just two examples. From his point of view one of the central opportunities of the HIIG is to contribute to a genuine European perspective on these matters. To foster transatlantic research cooperation on these topics Prof. Gasser is looking forward to joint projects between the Berkman Center and the HIIG, which are to be started in 2012.

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