Web and Internet technologies initiated the fourth industrial revolution in less than 20 years since their entry into mainstream communication scenarios, significantly changing economics and society. Digitization and mobile technologies speed up communication and provide the tools to control value chains of ever increasing complexity, that have long crossed the limits of single organizations or countries.

How can information and communication technologies help to establish fair and sustainable models of global and local economies and overcome serious disadvantages of current market forces?

Learn more about the conference mission

The conference was held on November, 8th 2013. Location:  Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt in Berlin, close to Berlin Central Station.

Video statements of speakers and committee

Schedule and Documentation

Conference photos (german descriptions).

Call for book contribution (2014-03-30)

Our Partners

  • Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung for Communications Research, Joint Competence Center,  Berlin
  • German Informatics Society (GI)
  • Ministry of Economics and Sciences of the State of Saxony-Anhalt

Partnership opportunities for future events

Digital communication channels offer enormous potential for intercompany exchange of information, but do they also allow for a better understanding?

Florian Brody, B&P, San Francisco