Nico Lumma

Nico Lumma

Nico Lumma (born June 19, 1972 in Ratzeburg ) is a German entrepreneur and co-founder of the network policy association D64 - Center for Digital Progress .

Life, education and work

Nico Lumma is the son of the former member of the state parliament Udo Lumma . He is married and has four kids.

During his school days, Lumma was in the USA in 1989 and 1990 . From 1993 to 1995 he studied political science and history at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . From 1996 to 1999 he studied at the University of California, Berkeley . He then completed his political science studies in 2000 at the University of Göttingen . Lumma is a guest lecturer at academic institutions such as the University of Applied Arts Vienna .

In 2009, Nico Lumma was hired by Scholz & Friends as director of the social media strategies division. In 2012 he switched to Digital Pioneers. Since 2015 Lumma has been the Managing Partner of Next Media Accelerator, a fund of 10 media entrepreneurs and accelerator that invests early on in start-ups in the media sector and advises them.

Journalistic and political activities

His blog Lummaland , which has since been discontinued , made him known nationwide and subsequently referred to in 2007 by Fred Turnheim as "one of the most famous German mobloggers". Nico Lumma wrote columns for Bild.de regularly in 2016. In 2019 he was a guest in the podcast "Tech & Tonic" by Lena M. Storck and Henning Tillmann .

In addition, he is present in the German media on topics of network politics . The Hamburger Abendblatt describes Lumma as "one of the most active German Internet experts." According to Wirtschaftswoche 19/2012, he is one of the 100 most important Internet heads in Germany.

Nico Lumma is a member of the Media and Network Policy Commission of the SPD party executive. In 2011 he founded D64 - Center for Digital Progress . Lumma developed the idea for D64 together with the SPD member of the Bundestag Lars Klingbeil on a joint trip to the USA. The mission statement from D64 states:

Digitization is advancing and is fundamentally changing our society. The changes affect all areas of life. This dynamic also requires political changes - in terms of content positioning, political structures and the transparency of political processes. D64 has set itself the goal of actively, constructively and creatively helping to shape this development. D64 sees itself as a progressive think tank that wants to achieve political changes beyond just thinking. The basic values ​​of freedom, justice and solidarity function as a compass for the content orientation, and must be updated against the background of digitization.

In 2015 Lumma campaigned against the reintroduction of data retention with D64 and convinced over 100 SPD branches to submit applications to the party convention against the VDS. In 2017, Lumma argued that, in view of the lost elections, the SPD "also had to address target groups beyond the classic working class and salaried employees" and called for a youth quota in the executive bodies. In 2019 he called for the SPD to have to renew its staff.

Lumma has been a member of Atlantik-Brücke eV since 2017

Fonts

• with Stefan Rippler, Branko Woischwill: Professional goal social media. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01245-8 . New edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06672-7 .

Web links

• Website by Nico Lumma
• "Next Media Accelerator" , startup accelerator founded by Lumma
• Media Outlook 2016 by Nico Lumma at Medium.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} SPD: #DigitalLeben
2. ↑ ^{a b} Five books: Nico Lumma November 6, 2014
3. ^ University of Applied Arts Vienna: class for ideas: Nico Lumma
4. ↑ Internet World Business 3/09 , February 2, 2009, p. 38
5. ↑ About Us. Retrieved October 22, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Lummaland - politics, social media, life, and other frills
7. ↑ Fred Turnheim : Breaking News in Web 2.0: what we need journalists for. Molden, 2007, p. 168
8. ↑ Lummas network column at Bild.de .
9. ↑ Tech & Tonic: Nico Lumma: The new linear is exponential. In: Tech & Tonic. October 23, 2019, accessed on October 24, 2019 (German). 
10. ↑ Jens Meyer-Wellmann Funding Program: How dpa would like to save the media. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 8, 2015.
11. ↑ D64 - Center for Digital Progress: Mission Statement
12. ↑ On these activities, see the interview with Nico Lumma in the TAZ from April 16, 2015: SPD network activist on stored data: 'A pure placebo topic'.
13. ↑ Nico Lumma: The SPD has to get younger. In: The time of October 23, 2017
14. ↑ Nico Lumma: Nahles and Scholz - part of the problem: Position: The SPD needs new heads. Now! May 31, 2019, accessed on October 22, 2019 (German).