Policy advising

FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of national and international boards and committees where it strongly advocates the further development of scientific information infrastructures.

Activities of FIZ staff (selection):

Prof. Dr. Harald Sack is a founder member and general secretary of the German IPv6 Council which functions as a national link to the International IPv6 Forum with the aim to promote the implementation of the new internet protocol IPv6 in Germany and to support players from industry, research, politics and administration for this purpose.
Matthias Razum is a member of the steering committee of the Schwerpunktinitiative „Digitalität in der Wissenschaft“ of the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen.
Thomas Hartmann represents the Leibniz Association in the workgroup Recht für Wissenschaft im digitalen Zeitalter of the steering committee of the Schwerpunktinitiative „Digitalität in der Wissenschaft“ of the Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen. He also advocates a science-friendly copyright law in the Coalition for Action Copyright for Education and Research.