Monika Ermert
Institution
Heise, Intellectual Property Watch, VDI-Nachrichten
Position
Journalist
Country
Germany
Information
Monika Ermert has been working as a freelance journalist for 20 years. She covers scientific topics as well as media politics. Since 1999, Monika Ermert intensified her reporting on technology and standardisation of the internet while analysing attempts to bring the internet under state control. Topics that she covers include self-regulation online, management of internet domain names and IP addresses as well as the evolution of bodies such as the United Nations Internet Governance Forum. Among Monika Ermert’s regular outlets are the Internet Policy Review, Heise, the Washington Internet Daily and Intellectual Property Watch. In her capacity of sinologist, she has performed research about the Chinese government’s information policy.
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Articles by this author
- ICANN taking next steps to model internet self-governance
- Europe: queue of complaints against snooping laws grows by the month
- Post-Snowden cryptography and network security
- YouTube blocking in Turkey, another violation of fundamental rights
- Max Schrems' boomerang hits Europe
- Net neutrality, too controversial for Sofia
- Jurisdiction on the net
- Tough call: avoiding internet governance from becoming FIFA-like
- A hawkish call to cyber arms
- Decisive report on surveillance shakes up debate in Europe
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