page_title: World-Information.Org
section_title: Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0
hierarchical_section_title: World-Information.Org / Initiatives / Sub-organizations and their Projects / Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0
caption_attribution_description: English: World-Information Org: Save the Digital Ecology/ Vienna 2000
context_page_description: World-Information Institute is an independent cultural institution located in Vienna, Austria linking research and public discourse in the realms of innovation, digital culture technologies, and society. Its vast documentation and processing of digital media technologies sheds light on the future perspectives of global developments and involves complex and heterogeneous information resources.
  World-Information Institute forms part of an international network of partner institutions and experts in the fields of information and communication technologies and their social implications.
  WII's main fields of research are a politics of the commons, new forms of cultural production, politics of search and organization of knowledge, surveillance technologies, big data and visualization, cultural and media policies. A recent example of an activity to further develop cultural and media policies is “Netzpolitischer Konvent”, in which a catalogue of demands was drafted and subsequently presented to the public.
context_section_description: The Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0 was established in 1993 as an arts and culture related international competence platform for the critical use of information and communication technologies. Over the years it has pursued a broad range of transdisciplinary activities. From producing and hosting infrastructure to organizing conferences, festivals and exhibitions, local interventions and skill transfer, as well as international research and publishing. Konrad Becker and Francisco de Sousa Webber, who founded the institute, currently form the board of directors together with Felix Stalder.
caption: Save the Digital Ecology/ Vienna 2000
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