Digital Ethics Council

The Council for Digital Ethics is a body in the field of digital policy , which the Hessian state government decided to set up on August 20, 2018 in the run-up to the Hessian state election together with other digital-political plans. The council is intended to advise the state government on questions of ethics in connection with digitization and the digital transformation of society. The council was constituted on September 19, 2018 under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Volker Bouffier . The second meeting of the council took place on March 20, 2019. The digital policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament , Tobias Eckert , calls for the work of the council to be expanded with the expertise of the state parliament.

Members

Kristina Sinemus , Hessian State Minister for Digital Strategy and Development (Chair)

Georg Bätzing , Bishop of Limburg
Martin Hein , Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck
Carsten Kratz, Head of Germany, Boston Consulting Group , Frankfurt
Benjamin Krause, Public Prosecutor, Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), Public Prosecutor's Office, Giessen branch
Manfred Krupp , director of the Hessischer Rundfunk
Florian Leibert, founder of the start-up Mesosphere, Silicon Valley
Roman and Heiko Lochmann, music and comedy duo Die Lochis
Pero Mićić , CEO FutureManagementGroup AG, Eltville
Heinz Riesenhuber , Federal Research Minister a. D.
Michael Ronellenfitsch , The Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Hans Georg Schnücker, Deputy Chairman of the Association of Hessian Newspaper Publishers eV (VHZV), VRM GmbH & Co. KG, Mainz
Harald A. Summa , founder and managing director of the eco association - Association of the Internet Industry , managing director of DE-CIX Management GmbH
Ralf Steinmetz , holder of the chair for multimedia communication, TU Darmstadt
Ruth Stock-Homburg , owner of the Marketing and Personnel Management department, TU Darmstadt
Karl-Heinz Streibich , CEO of Software AG , Darmstadt (2003–2018), President acatech (since 2018)
Volker Weber, regional director and chairman of the regional executive IG BCE

Individual evidence

↑ dpa: Hessen: 50 million euros for better mobile communications in the country. In: Heise Online. August 20, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2018 .
↑ Constituent meeting of the “Council for Digital Ethics”. Hessian state government, September 19, 2018, accessed on October 2, 2018 .
↑ "Digitization must serve people" | Information portal Hessen. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
↑ The work of the Council for Digital Ethics is to be expanded with the expertise of the Landtag ›SPD parliamentary group Hesse. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
^ State of Hesse founds "Council for Digital Ethics" - Bishop Hein Member of the committee: Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck | Current. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
↑ Why am I involved in Hesse's "Council for Digital Ethics"? In: Harald A. Summa. October 2, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019 .
↑ Department of Law and Economics: Prof. Dr. Ruth Stock-Homburg in the “Council for Digital Ethics” . In: Faculty of Law and Economics - Technical University of Darmstadt . August 29, 2018 ( tu-darmstadt.de [accessed August 30, 2018]).

[1] : Hessen: 50 million euros for better mobile communications in the country. In: Heise Online. August 20, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2018 .

[2] Constituent meeting of the “Council for Digital Ethics”. Hessian state government, September 19, 2018, accessed on October 2, 2018 .

[3] "Digitization must serve people" | Information portal Hessen. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .

[4] The work of the Council for Digital Ethics is to be expanded with the expertise of the Landtag ›SPD parliamentary group Hesse. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .

[5] State of Hesse founds "Council for Digital Ethics" - Bishop Hein Member of the committee: Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck | Current. Retrieved August 29, 2018 .

[6] Why am I involved in Hesse's "Council for Digital Ethics"? In: Harald A. Summa. October 2, 2018, accessed September 3, 2019 .

[7] Department of Law and Economics: Prof. Dr. Ruth Stock-Homburg in the “Council for Digital Ethics” . In: Faculty of Law and Economics - Technical University of Darmstadt . August 29, 2018 ( tu-darmstadt.de [accessed August 30, 2018]).