Hosted by three leading academic institutions in Germany, including Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts and the Social Science Research Center Berlin, and in close collaboration with the Hans-Bredow-Institute in Hamburg, the institute will bring together leading academics to engage in innovative research focusing on questions of Internet innovation, Internet policy, information and media law and global constitutionalism. The Internet and related technologies significantly transform our society, which implies enormous potential as well as indisputable challenges. We have founded this research institute for Internet & society in Berlin to further the transdisciplinary analysis of the Internet and its influence on the information society.