Dr. Jeanette Hofmann
Scientific Committee Member
Berlin, Germany
jeanette[at]wz-berlin.de
Jeanette Hofmann is program leader for Internet Governance at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Center Berlin) and conducts research at the project group "Kulturraum Internet" which she co-founded in 1994. She is co-coordinator of the WSIS Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus, and a member of the WSIS German Civil Society Coordination Group, providing representation to the German Government Delegation at the World Summit on the Information Society.
In addition, Hofmann has been a member of the Committee for Communication and Information of the German Chapter of UNESCO (Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission e.V.) and since 2002, a member of the academic advisory board of the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2001 she participated in the international NGO and Academic ICANN Study (NAIS) group which was formed to explore public participation in ICANN. In 2000 she was a member nominated candidate for the ICANN election. She has done research on IETF and the development of IPv6, on ICANN and the DNS.
Some recent publications include:
