Ten Years of Web Science – An Overview of the Next Ten Years
Ten years ago, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall, Jim Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt and Daniel J. Weitzner asked that we should not look at the World Wide Web from a purely technical perspective. They argued that it has been people building the web and, therefore, not only computer science must play a central role in further developing the web but also social sciences, law, the humanities, as well as medicine.
At that time, Facebook was only a phenomenon among a small group of American Ivy League students, Twitter was in the early development stage, and many people still looked down on Wikipedia. In the meantime, our way to find information, to communicate, to work, and to relax has become inseparably linked to the web and its infrastructure. However, along with the prospects of the web, risks also have grown – like observation, discrimination or crime.
The Web Science Trust Network of Research Labs, that L3S in Hanover and WeST in Koblenz belong to, will be celebrating ten years of Web Science in the worldwide event WebScience@10 taking place in Singapore, London, Chicago – and Berlin. The Leibniz-Gemeinschaft will host the event in Berlin allowing us to look into the future and to discuss the chances and risks of the web during an interdisciplinary afternoon with digital natives, companies, and scientists of various disciplines.
When: 29 November 2016, 2 p.m.
Where: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Chausseestraße 111, Berlin
14:00 Opening
► Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner, President of Leibniz Gemeinschaft, Berlin
► Hans-Heinrich von Knobloch, Bundesministerium des Innern, Berlin
► Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
14:20 – 15:00 Web Science Manifesto – The Next 10 Years
► Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz
► Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
► Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgo, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
15:00 – 16:15 Web and Society
► Prof. Dr. Maria Wimmer Universität Koblenz
Digital Citizens and Society: Does the Web lead to openness and transparency?
► Christian Rickerts, Geschäftsführender Vorstand (CEO) Wikimedia Deutschland
Free your mind
► Linus Neumann, Logbuch:Netzpolitik, Berlin
Web in Transition
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 18:00 Web and Transition
► Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgo, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
Big Data and personalized medicine
► Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe, Institut für Philosophie, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Get to know you – mainstreaming of medical information as normative challenge
► Philippe Magin, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder Quandoo, Berlin
The Lifecycle of Internet Enterprises
18:00 – 19:00 Panel: Web and Society – the Next 10 Years
► Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Forgo, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
► Prof. Dr. Nils Hoppe, Institut für Philosophie, Leibniz Universität Hannover
► Philipp Magin, Serial Entrepreneur, CEO & Founder Quandoo, Berlin
► Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S & Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover
► Linus Neumann, Logbuch:Netzpolitik, Berlin
► Prof. Dr. Maria Wimmer Universität Koblenz
► Christian Rickerts, Geschäftsführender Vorstand Wikimedia Deutschland
► Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, Institute for Web Science and Technologies, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz
► Gerald Swarat, Fraunhofer IESE & Internet & Gesellschaft Co:llaboratory, Berlin
► Prof. Dr. Ben Wagner, Director Centre for Human Rights and Internet, Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
19:00 Reception
Please register at event@L3S.de . Registrations received will be accepted and processed in chronological order, up to the maximum number of participants. Entrance is free. All talks and discussions will be in German.