Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society - The German Internet Institute - 2nd Establishment Phase

Founded in 2017, the Weizenbaum Institute (WI) in Berlin researches the effects of advancing digitalization on our society. With its recommendations for action, it helps to ensure that the digital transformation is sustainable, self-determined and responsible. The WI stands for excellent, interdisciplinary, fundamental, independent and value-based digitalization research, the topics and formats of which are further developed in dialogue with social stakeholders. The institute is supported by a network of seven partners: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, Universität der Künste
Berlin, Universität Potsdam and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). Institutional funding is being sought after the end of the second establishment phase with the BMBF and the states of Berlin and Brandenburg as funding bodies. The focal points of the research group “Security and Transparency of Digital Processes” at HU Berlin are assigned to Priority IV “Digital Infrastructures in Democracy: Tensions between Security and Freedom”.