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Expert on the Information in a Networked Economy, and on the European Union

Prof. Dr. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University’s Internet Institute and a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Acclaimed for his ground-breaking research into the role of information in the networked economy, Mayer-Schönberger is a visionary thinker about information innovation and governance, data privacy, memory and forgetting in a digital age, electronic government, and – of course – big data.

“What I’m certain about is that Big Data will be the defining text in the discussion for some time to come”
Forbes.com

[expand title=”In detail”] A native Austrian, Professor Mayer-Schönberger holds a number of law degrees, including one from Harvard and an MS(Econ) from the London School of Economics. He founded Ikarus Software in 1986, a company focusing on data security, and developed Virus Utilities, which became the best-selling Austrian software product. He is also on the boards of numerous foundations, think tanks and organizations, focused on studying the foundations of the new economy, and he advises governments, businesses and NGOs on new economy and information society issues. He previously served on the ABA/AALS National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists.[/expand]

[expand title=”What he offers you”]With his thought-provoking new twist, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. In his insightful presentations, he examines the technology that’s facilitating the end of forgetting – digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software – and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory. [/expand]

[expand title=”How he presents”]In his high content presentations, Viktor draws on a rich body of contemporary psychological theory to convincingly argue that both individuals and societies are obliged to rewrite or eliminate elements of the past that would render action in the present impossible.[/expand]

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Topics

Big Data

Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

Fundamental Rights in the Digital World

Information in a Networked Economy

The European Union

Economic and Information Society Issues

Publications

2013
Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform The Way We Live, Work and Think

2009
Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age

2007
Governance and Information Technology

He has published seven books and over a hundred articles and book chapters.

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