08: The Reassuring Habitat
What about security in our globalized world? The yearning for more security in our increasingly complex world and innovative solutions for coping with it
Trust and security are becoming increasingly important for people in our globalized world. Globalization does not only take place “outside”; our own personal environment is also being globalized, with our real surroundings being expanded by virtual Internet space. How do we live in this new habitat, how is it defined and how can we feel comfortable in it? Can virtual space offer security and trust that can be transferred to our real environment, or is it necessary for our real space to become a new protective zone for enabling us to move within the virtual space? Will human beings carry on adapting to communications technologies or will there be a new trend towards more humane technologies that give people security? Will there be a new “digital gap”? Who will remain behind?
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Ing. Mag. Johann CAS
Senior researcher at the Institute of Technology Assessment, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
| Higher Technical Teaching College, Klagenfurt, Department of Telecommunications | |
| 1987 | degree in economics at the University of Graz; technical consultant in industrial automation |
| since 1988 | employed by the ITA as specialist in information society technologies; main focus at present: privacy in the information society, privacy enhancing technologies. |
MA, BA Melissa FLEMING
Spokesperson, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna
| Broadcast journalist | |
| Public Affairs Specialist, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | |
| Spokesperson/ Head of Press and Public Information, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe | |
| Spokesperson/ Head of Media and Outreach, IAEA |
Georges T. ROOS
Founder, ROOS Office for Cultural Innovation Trends & Futures; Founder & Director, European Futurists Conference Lucerne
| 1984-1989 | Studium an der philosophischen Fakultät Universität Zürich, Abschluss lic. phil. I. (Master of Arts) |
| 1989-1996 | Journalistische Laufbahn, zuletzt Mitglied der Chefredaktion Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten; |
| 1996-1999 | Mitglied der Geschäftsleitung Gottlieb Duttweiler Institut, Rüschlikon; |
| 2000 | Gründung des privaten Zukunftsforschungsinstituts ROOS Office for Cultural Innovation; |
| 2004 | Gründung European Futurists Conference Lucerne, Director |
Dr. Dipl.-Ing. Helmut LEOPOLD
Head of Center for Digital Safety & Security, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Vienna
| 1989 | Abschluss des Studiums der Informatik als Dipl.-Ing. an der Technischen Universität Wien |
| 1989-1994 | Alcatel Austria ELIN Forschungszentrum; Forschungsingenieur auf dem Gebiet der Breitband- und Multimediakommunikation |
| 1994-1998 | Alcatel Austria AG; Leiter der Gruppe Breitbandtechnologie und Strategie |
| 1999-2008 | In verschiedenen Managementpositionen bei Telekom Austria; In dieser Zeit verantwortete er die Realisierung eines umfassenden Product Life Cycle Prozesses, in dem heute das Gesamtportfolio der Festnetzprodukte der Telekom Austria gesteuert wird. |
| seit 2009 | Head of Safety & Security Department, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Wien |
