Open Password – Friday January 28, 2022
#1022
Password Archive – Open Password Archive – Trend of the Year – Man of the Year – Woman of the Year – Facility of the Year – Book of the Year
Metaverse – Game – Fortnite – Roblox – Microsoft – Facebook – YouGov – Awareness – Willingness to use – Further development of the Internet – Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson – VÖB – BVÖ – Tyrol University and State Library – DIRECTIONS – Educational information systems – Data protection – Certification – BMBF – Learning apps and Learning platforms
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Password archive and Open Password archive
36 years of interpreting the development of the industry with the help of defining trends
Dear reader of Open Password! – By Willi Bredemeier
Metaverse: Great curiosity about the unknown
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Austrian Library Congress: Postponed for one year due to Corona
- DIRECTIONS: Guaranteed data protection – certification of educational information systems
Password archive and Open Password archive
36 years of interpreting the development of the industry
with the help of defining trends
Dear Open Password reader,
Once a year, Open Password, like its predecessor Password, looks back on the development of the information industry and Password’s reporting on the information industry. The reporting period for Open Password now covers around six years, and for Open Password and Password combined it covers more than 36 years. For the 1000th edition of Open Password alone, a large number of awards were published in November and December 2021.
Since 1986, Password and Open Password have chosen one or more trends of the year, and since 2002 also one or more men and women of the year. Once a year, Open Password and Password open their archive and once again document the year’s elections for its readers. Sometimes one or more institutions of the year or one or more books of the year are chosen without these elections being documented separately in retrospect.
In my opinion, these retrospectives are exciting to read and provide insights into the history and current state of the industry that one might not have had at hand. They bring back memories that might otherwise be lost. Could these reviews be helpful for future action? Anyone who wants to act sustainably in the future should know the history of their environment.
“Corona”: trend of the year 2023, 2022, 2021
To name just two developments in connection with our elections: In 2001, the “rise of social media” became the trend of the year. The tone was clearly positive. We believed in the “free internet” and social media as a great democratizer, potentially turning everyone into a producer of information with a global readership. When the decade 2011 – 2020 was summarized under the title “The development and degeneration of the social web”, the assessment of social media was at least ambivalent, if not negative, and “fake news” was voted “Trend of the Year” in 2016 . When Maelle Gavet’s “Trampled by Unicorns – The Devastating Side Effects of Big Tech – A Call to Action ” became Book of the Year, Open Password wrote : “2022/2021 could mark a turning point after which the tech industry (and here “especially the operators of social media) are viewed by the public almost exclusively critically in the long term and for good reasons.” what it did.
For the period 2021-2020 “Corona” – how could it have been different? – voted “Trend of the Year”. For the period 2022-2021, the annual trend was again “Corona”. This was a novelty, as the same “trend of the year” had never been voted for in two consecutive years. This shows how much “Corona” kept us in suspense and changed us even in the second and third year of the pandemic. In addition, the “Trend of the Year” elections were never about originality, but rather about identifying developments that had the most lasting impact on us.
In order to differentiate the two “Corona trends” from one another, one could also speak of the “Corona shock” and the “time of improvisations” for the period 2021 – 2021, while for the period 2022 – 2021 one could speak of “Corona as a great accelerator, driver of innovations and promoters of decentralized collaboration”. One could also have called 2022-2021 the “year of disappointments”, with a view to politics and the loud minority of vaccination opponents who closed themselves to rational dialogue. But it was also a year in which the improvisations after the Corona shock bore fruit and were implemented. The greatest success was the development of vaccines against Corona, especially by the Mainz company BionTech and its first researcher and entrepreneur U?ur ?ahin . That’s why the book by Joe Miller, U?ur ?ahin and Özlem Türeci “Project Lightspeed: The path to the BioNTech vaccine – and to a medicine of tomorrow” is the second book of the year.
More on this in future issues of Open Password.
Kind regards,
Willi Bredemeier
Woman of the Year: Whistleblower Frances Haugen
Trends for
2022/2021 back to 1986
2022/2021: Corona as the great accelerator, digitizer and virtualizer
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2020 – 2011: The evolution and degeneration of the social web
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2021/2020: The Corona shock
2020/2019: The information professional in the digital transformation
of data, information and knowledge competence
2019/2018: Artificial intelligence in the information industry
2018/2017: Digitalization
Artificial IntelligenceCitizen Science
Blockchain/Bitcoin
2016: The mobilization of the industry to save ZB MED
The development into a post-truth societyFake News: What do we need for a concept of truth?
2015: The “ultimate” challenges for information professionals: answers, solutions, direct participation in the company’s success
2014: The last publishers – Or: About the fight against one’s own insignificance
2013: Big Data
Cyber Espionage
2012: The Irreversible Development of Open Access
Open Learning
2011: The decline of the public sector: Information Science – Information Infrastructure – FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
Researcher, founder and InfoPro: Man of the Year Ugur Sahin
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2010 – 2001: Google
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2010: Civil Society and Social Web
2009: Social networks
newspaper and magazine crisis
2008: Mobile Internet
E-Books
2007: The disappearance of the industry
2006: Web 2.0
The Rise of East AsiaWikipedia
2005: The legal information market establishes itself
2004: DGI drives COMINFO against the wall
The industry between fraying, integration and consolidation
2003: deinformatization in the recession
Networking
Google
2002: E-Government
Public Sector Information
2001: The rise of social media
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2000 – 1991: Internet
20th century: communication as a success factor
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2000: More and more daily news
1999: The independent providers on the Internet
1998: E-commerce and the boom of the new economy
1997: The end of specialist information policy: From the design of the industry to the sectarians of the hypsistaria
1996: Commercial breakthrough of the World Wide Web
1995: Online consumer services launch
1994: Internet
1993: Electronic publishing: The publishers are coming
1992: Information Quality
1991: Multimedia and CD-ROM
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1990-1986: The rise and fall of German specialist information policy
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1990: The collapse of the information infrastructure in the new federal states
1989: After the fall of the Berlin Wall: New information markets in Eastern Europe
1988: Europe Information: The Commission tries its hand at market development
1987: The economic information comes, and so do the private providers
1986: Big Bang on the London Stock Exchange: Triumph of real-time information
Insider and critic of the tech industry:
Author of the Year Maelle Gavet
Men and women of the year
2022/2021 back to 2002
2022/2021: Frances Haugen
Ugur Sahin, BioNTech
2021/2020: All of us as home office workers
2019: “Rebels of Information Science”
Winfried GödertBernd JörsWalther Umstätter
2018: Yannick Looonus, Semalytix
Ann Chapman, Minecraft
2017: Sabine Graumann, Kantar TNS
Helga Schwarz, author
2016: Rudolf Mumenthaler, Institute for Information Science, HTW Chur
Vera Münch, Freelancing PR
Guido Heinen, Head of the Scientific Services of the Bundestag
Oliver Flechter/Philip Löfte, authors of “Rise of the digital tribal society”
2015: The information professional in the private sector: The rediscovered target group
Steep assists 2015: Thomas Lorenz, BASF – Ingo Titschak, Swiss Re – Christiane Küster-Schneider, Schönherr Rechtsnwälte
Direct assists 2014: Dirk Heilmann, Handelsblatt Research Institute – Sabine Kruse, Merck – Beate Mäusle, Landesbank Württemberg – Monika Heim, L-Bank
Steep assists 2013: Sabine Graumann, TNS Infratest – Tim Brouwer, SVP – Michael Klems, infobroker.de
The other makers of the steep assist conference: Anja Binninger – Mailin Choy – Susanne Funk – Mareike Miller – Eveline Pipp – Stephan Holländer
2014: Sabine Kruse, Merck
Michael Klems, infobroker.de
2013: Edward Snowden, whistleblower
2012: Sigrid Riedel, WTI Frankfurt
Alice Keller, de Gruyter
2011: Arnoud de Kamp, Infomare
2010: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook
Julian Assange, Wikileaks
2009: Rupert Murdoch, News Corp.
2008: Norbert Weitkämper, Weitkämper Technology
2007: Frank Klingler, Klingler GmbH
2005: Peter Müller-Bader, GBI
2004: Uwe Rosemann, Hanover Technical Information Library
2002: Horst Neißer, President of the DGI
Metaverse
Great curiosity about the unknown
(Game) More than 24 million Germans can imagine using the Metaverse in the future, but 6 out of 10 Germans have not heard of it yet.
Fortnite and Roblox are considered possible forerunners, Microsoft is planning to develop one for the economy and Facebook has taken its cue from this when it renamed Meta: Hardly any other idea is currently driving the digital economy as much as the so-called Metaverse. This is a combination of the real and virtual world to create a new type of space in which people can interact with each other in a variety of ways. The idea of the Metaverse is also of great interest among Germans: more than one in three Germans (35 percent) over the age of 16 can already imagine using the Metaverse in the future. That’s over 24 million people. These are the results of a representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of game – Association of the German Games Industry.
The willingness to use it varies greatly: 7 percent of Germans definitely want to use the Metaverse, 15 percent want to find out a little more about it beforehand, but are then ready to enter the virtual world. Another 13 percent would use it once it became established. As curious as many Germans are about the Metaverse, the idea is also unknown to many others: around 6 out of 10 Germans have not yet heard of the Metaverse.
Both companies and technologies from the games industry currently play a central role in the Metaverse ideas. In addition to 3D engines, virtual and augmented reality glasses, network technologies and concepts from game design also come together here and fill out the Metaverse concept step by step.
Among those who are fundamentally open to the Metaverse, interest varies widely: the most frequently mentioned option is to communicate with others. Around one in three (30 percent) who are open to the Metaverse would like to exchange ideas with others there. But playing games together (26 percent) and attending virtual events such as concerts or exhibitions (24 percent) also meet with great interest, as do watching films and series together in the Metaverse (17 percent) or shopping (15 percent). Professional meetings are an exciting opportunity for around one in seven people (14 percent) who do not reject the Metaverse.
The term metaverse refers to ideas for the further development of the Internet. The various concepts for this usually include a connection between the virtual and real world, which takes place permanently, in real time, without an upper limit on the number of users, and which has its own economic system. The Metaverse is intended to offer a high level of interoperability and enable a wide variety of applications. The term metaverse was first used in the 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash” by Neal Stephenson and has since been found in a wide variety of cultural and technological contexts.
Austrian Library Congress
Postponed for a year due to Corona
Dear colleagues,
Due to current developments, the Presidium of the Association of Austrian Librarians (VÖB) and the Board of Directors of the Austrian Library Association (BVÖ) as co-organizers felt compelled to reconsider the plans for the 1st Austrian Library Congress in Innsbruck in 2022.
For this reason, the joint decision was made to postpone the 1st Austrian Library Congress to the 2nd-5th. to be postponed to May 2023. The on-site organization is carried out by the University and State Library of Tyrol, the venue is the Congress Innsbruck.
The Presidium of the VÖB and the Board of the BVÖ hope that this early decision will support everyone who wants to take part in the 1st Austrian Library Congress in order to be able to adapt their preparations for this event with sufficient lead time.
A call for papers will follow in early fall 2022.
Mag. Maria Seissl and Mag. Pamela Stückler for the Association of Austrian Librarians (VÖB) – Mag. Christina Krenmayr, Mag. Roman Huditsch &
Mag. Markus Feigl for the Austrian Library Association (BVÖ) – Mag. Eva Ramminger
for the local committee at the University and State Library of Tyrol
DIRECTIONS
Guaranteed data protection: Certification
of educational information systems
BMBF) Kick-off of the research project “DIRECTIONS – data protection certification for educational information systems”. The aim of the project is a general seal of quality for certification of educational information systems such as learning apps or platforms that guarantees data protection.
Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger explains: “The corona pandemic has shown us all how great the deficits are in the digitalization of education. This not only affects the infrastructure and equipment of the schools, but also data protection. Security gaps in learning apps and platforms have caused uncertainty among teachers, parents and students. To address the problem, learning apps and platforms must be certified by independent testing bodies. Everyone involved would benefit from this: students and their data would be better protected, decision-makers in the states and schools would have more legal certainty when selecting educational products and providers would have greater clarity about the requirements. With this research project we are laying the foundation for this. I am very pleased that a large number of providers, school management, supervisory authorities and other actors from education and research are accompanying and supporting this important project.”
The six-year DIRECTIONS project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with around 6.4 million euros. It is carried out by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of Kassel and datenschutz cert GmbH.
In data protection law, quality seals and certificates for IT applications are the only way to prove that data protection requirements have been met. Such approaches are currently missing for school applications.
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