Harald A. Summa

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Harald A. Summa, 2014

Harald A. Summa (born July 9, 1953 in Marktredwitz ) is a German internet pioneer and entrepreneur .

Life

Harald A. Summa is the founder and managing director of the eco - Association of the Internet Industry . Founded and based in Germany, eco is internationally active and, according to its own information, with over 1000 member companies, it is the largest association of the Internet industry in Europe. Since 1996, Summa has been managing the world's largest Internet node DE-CIX in Frankfurt am Main , which he co-founded , as well as the German and international locations of the DE-CIX companies. Summa is a co-initiator of the European associations Euro-ISPA and Euro-IX . Since 2011 he has been deputy chairman of the Digital Hub FrankfurtRheinMain eV 2013 and until 2018 was a core member of the advisory board of the Young Digital Economy initiative of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and of the advisory board for the digital economy NRW . Summa has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Weizenbaum Institute since it was founded . In August 2018, Summa was appointed to the Council for Digital Ethics by the Hessian state government . In April 2019, the international specialist magazine Capacity counted Summa among the “Power 100”, ie one of the 100 most influential people in the global telecommunications industry.

Teaching and Research

From 1980 to 1990 Summa was a lecturer at the chair for computer science at the University of Cologne . In 1999 he was a partner in the cooperative computer science course (KoSI), department of computer science at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences , where he helped shape the course in 2013. In 2014, Summa initiated the Research & Development department within DE-CIX Management GmbH.

Web links

Commons : Harald A. Summa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. eco self-presentation
  2. Packet Clearing House
  3. Euro ISPA (engl.)
  4. Euro-IX (English)
  5. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
  6. Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy
  7. 1 Digital Economy NRW
  8. ^ Committees of the Weizenbaum Institute
  9. Cabinet meeting with a focus on “Digitization” . In: egovernment.hessen.de . August 20, 2018 ( hessen.de [accessed August 29, 2018]).
  10. Capacity Magazin, Vol. 19, Issue 3 April / May 2019, p. 48
  11. Harald A. Summa