Study Commission Internet and Digital Society
The Study Commission Internet and Digital Society examined of 5 May 2010 to 5 April 2013, the impact of the Internet on politics and society and made recommendations for Parliament (see final report). The 17th German Bundestag unanimously decided to set up the commission on March 4, 2010.
Division into project groups
The commission set up 12 project groups on various topics:
- Education and Research
- Data protection, personal rights
- Democracy and the state
- International and Internet Governance
- Interoperability, standards, free software
- Culture, media, public
- Media literacy
- Net neutrality
- copyright
- Consumer protection
- Economy, work, green IT
- Access, structure and security in the network
Members
When it was constituted, the commission consisted of 17 members of the Bundestag and 17 experts as well as a participation platform as the “18th Experts ”. The chairman of the commission was the CDU member of the Bundestag Axel E. Fischer , deputy of the SPD member Gerold Reichenbach . The parliamentary groups nominated 17 deputies for the MPs, the experts have no deputies.
Members of the Bundestag
- CDU / CSU : Axel E. Fischer , Reinhard Brandl , Ansgar Heveling , Thomas Jarzombek , Jens Koeppen , Peter Tauber
- FDP : Manuel Höferlin , Sebastian Blumenthal , Jimmy Schulz
- SPD : Johannes Kahrs , Lars Klingbeil , Aydan Özoguz , Gerold Reichenbach
- Alliance 90 / The Greens : Konstantin von Notz , Tabea Rößner
- The left : Petra Sitte , Halina Wawzyniak
expert
The experts nominated by the political groups:
For the CDU / CSU
- Dieter Gorny (Chairman of the Board of the Federal Association of the Music Industry )
- Harald Lemke (former State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior )
- Wolf-Dieter Ring (former President of the Bavarian State Office for New Media )
- Bernhard Rohleder ( General Manager of Bitkom )
- Nicole Simon (author, podcaster , social media consultant)
- Christof Weinhardt (Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology )
For the FDP
- Hubertus Gersdorf (Professor at the University of Rostock , Lecturer at the Hamburg Media School , the University of Bonn and the Bucerius Law School )
- Wolf Osthaus ("Head of Corporate & Regulatory Affairs" at United Internet )
- padeluun ( FoeBuD / digitalcourage )
For the SPD
- Alvar Freude ( Working Group Against Internet Bans and Censorship )
- Lothar Schröder (member of the ver.di executive board and deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom )
- Wolfgang Schulz (lawyer, lecturer at the University of Hamburg , member of the Hamburg State Justice Examination Office )
- Cornelia Tausch (Head of the Economics and International Department at the German Consumer Association )
For the greens
- Markus Beckedahl (founder of Netzpolitik.org )
- Jeanette Hofmann (Deputy Chairwoman of the Heinrich Böll Foundation )
For the left
- Constanze Kurz (spokeswoman for the Chaos Computer Club )
- Annette Mühlberg (Head of the eGovernment, New Media, Administrative Modernization Unit at the ver.di Federal Executive Board)
18. Expert : At enquetebeteiligung.de the “18. Experts ”, ie Internet users, contribute their own ideas.
Activity of the project groups
The commission started its work on May 5, 2010. In contrast to previous study commissions, all meetings were public and broadcast as a live stream. Reports from the project groups were also posted on the website. The interested public was involved in the work via a participation platform. There was also a blog.
By December 2012, the commission had presented inventories and recommendations for action on the following topics:
- Media literacy
- copyright
- Net neutrality
- Data protection, personal rights
- Education and Research
- Economy, work, green IT
- Democracy and the state
Participation platform
In February 2011 the participation platform of the study commission went online on the website www.enquetebeteiligung.de. This was developed by the Liquid Democracy eV association on the basis of the Adhocracy software and was temporarily financed. Citizens were able to take notes on the working papers and also introduce their own recommendations for action. In the end, the commission decided whether the suggestions would appear in the report. So far, texts and ideas from the participation platform have been published in the report on all completed topics.
criticism
The chairman of the commission, Axel E. Fischer , was criticized and ridiculed on the Internet for calling for a “ ban on masking ”, ie an “ obligation to use real names on the Internet ”.
On July 4, 2011, the commission should vote on the interim report of the net neutrality project group . The vote, which had already been postponed, was postponed again to autumn, which met with great criticism from the Internet community. In the vote in October 2011, neither the proponents nor the opponents of strict net neutrality prevailed. While the CDU / CSU and FDP and parts of the experts named by these parties wanted to allow different service classes at different speeds, this was rejected by the opposition parties and the narrow majority of the experts, so that the vote ended 17-17.
literature
- Application for appointment of March 3, 2010, BT-Drs. 17/950
- Final report of the study commission “Internet and digital society”, April 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12550
Interim reports
- Interim report of the study commission, April 2011, BT-Drs. 17/5625
- Media competence, October 2011, BT-Drs. 17/7286
- Copyright, November 2011, BT-Drs. 17/7899
- Net neutrality, February 2012, BT-Drs. 17/8536
- Data protection, personal rights, March 2012, BT-Drs. 17/8999
- Education and Research, January 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12029
- Democracy and State, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12290
- International and Internet Governance, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12480
- Interoperability, Standards, Free Software, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12495
- Economy, Work, Green IT, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12505
- Consumer protection, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12540
- Access, structure and security in the network, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12541
- Culture, media, public, March 2013, BT-Drs. 17/12542
Web links
- Archived website of the commission of inquiry "Internet and digital society"
- Participation platform for interested citizens
Individual evidence
- ↑ Study Commission Internet has been constituted . In: Homepage of the German Bundestag , May 5, 2010
- ↑ Project groups study commission
- ↑ https://enquetebeteiligung.de/
- ^ Website of the Internet Enquête
- ↑ List of experts for the Enquete Commission is available. In: heise online , April 21, 2010
- ^ Members of the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society - Experts , accessed on February 7, 2013
- ↑ Adhocracy attempt. Bundestag asks citizens to participate . In: Spiegel Online - Netzwelt , January 25, 2011
- ↑ http://www.bundestag.de/internetenquete/Sitzungen_Uebersicht/index.jsp
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Blog of the Enquete Commission Internet and Digital Society ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Inventories and recommendations for action
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- ↑ Christian Persson : CDU politician for “ban on masking on the Internet” [2. Update]. In: heise online. November 14, 2010, accessed February 27, 2011 .
- ↑ https://netzpolitik.org/2011/demokratie-live-schmierenkomodie-in-der-enquete/
- ↑ http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=b0ef6ef9
- ↑ Internet inquiry pinches the course. In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. October 17, 2011, accessed August 5, 2012 .