Digital society
Internet and society

The Federal Agency for Civic Education supports all interested citizens in dealing with questions about social development. Its task is to promote understanding for political issues, to consolidate democratic awareness and to strengthen the willingness to participate politically.

It is a partner in the lectures series Making Sense of the Digital Society. This series of speeches gives leading European intellectuals the opportunity to present key concepts of the digital society in order to better understand the complex present and the uncertain future.

The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) was founded in 2011 to research the development of the internet from a societal perspective and better understand the digitalisation of all spheres of life. As the first institute in Germany with a focus on internet and society, HIIG has established an understanding that centres on the deep interconnectedness of digital innovations and societal processes. The development of technology reflects norms, values and networks of interests, and conversely, technologies, once established, influence social values.
 
To understand current social and technological change, we need explanations that help shape our future. Within the framework of the lecture series „Making Sense of the Digital Society", visionary experts share their perspective on the digital society of our time. They address fundamental questions: What could a European perspective on the current transformation process look like? What is the meaning of power and how is it distributed? And what role do digital technologies play in this?

Social Life Research Institute is an independent organization with a network of experts researching and teaching in the field of social sciences and humanities. The institute's expertise is researching on contemporary Vietnamese social life and the application of scientific knowledge to solve practical and developmental problems of social life (research, social surveys, policy advocacy, social prediction, etc.) to promote social progress in Vietnam.