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The focus of the next issue is: You voted Customer Focus It’s one of the strategic areas of the Protecting privacy Jointly working towards new “We are Bosch” mission statement: Customer Focus. The next issue, which will be published in mid-September, will Data protection in the Internet of Things is currently being The Internet of Things: Would cover this topic at length. Among other discussed everywhere. Around 1,000 associates contributed things, we will show how closely Bosch to our Bosch-Zünder Online survey on this issue. Here are you spend more money on the Internet of the future works with customers during product some of the most interesting comments. development, how Bosch contacts 60,000 solutions that provide better The foundation brings customers in just 22 days, and present a Cyber-crime is on the rise top sales representative. Protecting our personal data on the Internet is ultimately data protection? together young experts no different from ensuring our security anywhere else. from all over the world Cyber-crime is on the rise, which is why we should be Yes very conscientious with our data. We need to prioritize 65% to develop strategies for Your opinion security. No Akhmad Darsono, Bekasi, Indonesia controlling and regulating counts Complete security impossible the Internet. Two project fellows working together: Tell us what you think about I think it’s impossible to achieve complete data security, Julia Pohle from Germany and Aasim Excellence, the focus of this issue. Which articles did you particularly even if you pay lots of money for it. There’s a simple reason 35% orking across national bor- Khan from India. Photos: Ralph Alswang enjoy, and which ones less so? We for this. En route between any sender and receiver, there ders was a new and chal- look forward to hearing your opinion: are huge numbers of cables, routers, and servers to be lenging experience for all on Bosch-Zünder Online, or by e-mail passed. Of course, the majority of data can be protected involved. When newcomer The Global Governance Futures directly to the editorial staff. in some way or another, but it’s not worth paying extra Wexperts gather from Germany, the United program is run jointly by the Robert for it. States, China, India, and Japan to spend a Bosch Foundation and the Global Public Tuncay Coskun, Bursa, Turkey year together trying to figure out complex Policy Institute Berlin. Other partners issues such as how the Internet can be con- include: , Tokyo Personal data more important trolled and regulated, there are many Foundation, Center for Policy Research, Once you reveal your personal data, it is difficult or even obstacles to be overcome. “We all have Hertie School of Governance, Tsinghua impossible to take it back again. The value that we gain different professional backgrounds,” says University, Fudan University, Keio from using particular pieces of software (such as smart- Julia Pohle (34), who normally works for the Two models for the After the group presented its report in May University, Ashoka University, and phone apps) is generally much lower than that of our guarantee efficient data protection, access should be Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and in the conference rooms of the venerable Princeton University. A total of 25 proj- personal data. That’s why I would be prepared to pay for limited only to the user and to a handful of selected already engages in how the Internet can be future: Global dialogue Brookings Institution in Washington, it ect fellows have compiled three reports added security. groups. governed as part of her work there. The came to understand just how controversial on current issues faced by the world Michel Gross, Reutlingen, Germany Dylan Jenks, Kentwood, Michigan heterogeneity of the participants, she says, or cyber warfare some of its recommendations were taken to population: , meant communication wasn’t always easy. be. According to Laura DeNardis, Professor Geoengineering Governance, and Basic human right Insurance against data theft But there was never any ground for ideolog- gests unfettered global dialogue on the free at the School of Com- Global Arms Control. These reports The protection of our privacy is a basic human right. The I am of the view that data security can no longer be guaran- ical differences to be voiced, adds Aasim sharing of information and the dissolution munication in Washington, public authori- are now being discussed in public. more that devices are becoming interconnected, the more teed satisfactorily on the Internet. That’s why I would rath- Khan (33), who is doing a PhD at King’s Col- of national boundaries. The more negative ties tend to restrict personal freedom. there is a very real danger that my privacy is violated. That’s er invest in an insurance policy against data theft than a lege in London to look at how the Internet is scenario, “Google Shock,” conversely sug- Because of this, she could not understand English versions of the reports why I would definitely pay extra for data security if given device that claims to protect my data. spreading across his home country of India. gests a significant loss of user trust in the why the project fellows were advocating are available via the Internet: the option. Boldizsar Cselenyi, Liverpool, UK “Any differences were of an intellectual Internet, as well as the U.S. and Russia increased governmental involvement. www.bosch-stiftung.de/ggf Furman Ghani, Bangalore, India nature, not a political one,” he says. engaging in very real and damaging cyber However, she also acknowledged that the Protection urgently needed The result of this prolific international warfare. In the face of such potential chal- publication of the report was timed very Captured in other ways I would spend more money on more data protection, cooperation, documented in writing at lenges, the international working group wisely, as Internet governance is currently nizations have access to a project team as Data is collected everywhere. Protecting it in individual because more and more companies are becoming inter- the five meetings of the managerial new- recommends an intensification of intergov- one of the most hotly debated intergovern- diverse as this one, featuring an investor Contact applications and paying extra for this makes no sense to ested in the personal data of users. We need to protect our comers in Berlin, Tokyo, Peking, New Delhi, ernmental dialogue regarding the gover- mental topics. from Japan, a professor from China, and a E-mail [email protected] me, as the data would simply be captured some other way. data on the Internet. and Washington, is a report titled “Shared nance and regulation of the Internet. The Aasim Khan is pleased he participated in government official from the United States. Tel. +49 (0)7 11 8 11 – 71 12 Alexander Koch, Salzgitter, Germany Angie Orozco, Toluca, Mexico Responsibility: Towards More Inclusive young working group also suggests others the Global Governance Futures program. Through the establishment of its new Intranet https://bgn.bosch.com/alias/bzonline Internet Governance.” Primarily, the report to be included in such talks: Non-govern- He is certain that the contribution of his Alumni Association, the Robert Bosch Mailing address Redaktion Bosch-Zünder (Abt. C/CCN3), Postfach 10 60 50, 70049 Stuttgart, Germany Heavily restrict access You can find a link to the next proposes two models for the future of the mental organizations (NGOs), private com- working group to the debate surrounding Foundation is ensuring that the interna- It’s very important for society to ensure financial security survey on the Bosch-Zünder Internet by 2025. The more positive of the panies, and by no small measure the Inter- the future of the Internet will not go unno- tional dialogue between newcomer experts as well as protect the freedom of thought. In order to Online homepage. two scenarios, named “Cyber Davos,” sug- net users themselves. ticed – not least because only very few orga- will continue into the future. rr Masthead

BoschZünder [’tsynd r] is the international newsletter for associates of the Bosch Group. It Robert Bosch Foundation: Facts and Figures 2014 was founded by Robert Bosch in 1919 and named after magneto ignition devices (‘Magnetzünder’), Over the past year, the Robert Bosch Foun- €9.8 million the product that gave Bosch its worldwide Snapshot dation has provided a total of €68 million in Research funding for the Institute of breakthrough at the turn of the century. Bosch- funding to its charitable projects and initia- €5.4 million Clinical Pharmacology (IKP/Robert Zünder is published worldwide in ten languages. Bosch Hospital) and the Institute for tives. The infographic to the right illustrates Investments in the Published by: Saglam (ns), Edit Toth (ed), Robert Bosch Hospital the History of Medicine (IGM) Corporate Communications, Deisy Gutiérrez Vázquez how this funding is distributed across the Head: Christoph Zemelka (dv), Klaus Voßmeyer (kv), foundation’s facilities and subject areas. (ze) Zairynn Yazmi (zy) €1.3 million The foundation finances its charitable Internal Communications External authors: 2014 Projects of dependent Manager: C3 Creative Code and ­activities from the dividends it receives as foundations connected to the Christian Fronek (fro) Content GmbH, Stuttgart: the company’s majority shareholder, there- €15.5 million Robert Bosch Foundation Editor-in-Chief: Bettina Langer (bl), total Jürgen Zeyer (jz) by fulfilling the philanthropic legacy of Education, society, and culture Gunter Epple (ep) €2.8 million Online Editor-in-Chief: Production and design: Robert Bosch for over 50 years now. funding International dialogue projects Jörg Kirchhoff (kh) C3 Creative Code and Content GmbH, The photograph shows two students at Managing Editor: Photo: K. Polkowski of the Berlin branch Berlin Ortrun von Hochmeister the UWC Robert Bosch College, an inter­ (vH) Translations: national school for senior secondary school Think Global GmbH, Innovation and technology: STAR GmbH, GEDEV students that opened in Freiburg, Germany Arnd Bäucker (bär) Printed by: Editor: in 2014 thanks to foundation funding. The €11.9 million Frankfurter Societäts- Alexander Fritsch (alf) school brings together education and inter- Health and science Druckerei GmbH Contributors to this issue: 220,000 national dialogue. Irina Ananyeva (ia), Graziele Print run: Bassi (gb), Eva Beuchel (beu), Leonora Cerri (lc), Articles in the Bosch- Read more about the foundation’s €13.7 million €7.6 million Sonja Feihle (fei), Michaux Zünder are only classified International dialogue between International dialogue between Fiona (mf), Marion Lechner as official statements by work in the current annual report: (ml), Pauline Menendez the board of management www.bosch-stiftung.de/bericht2014 Europe and its neighbors America and Asia (pm), José Manuel Noriega if they are marked as (jn), Nathalia Pessoa (np), such. Reproduction with Inger Rosen (ir), Nuray permission only.

Admittedly, this old street cruiser has seen better days, and not even the Bosch battery inside can change that. But still, The Foundation’s new Come and share the Robert Bosch Foundation’s You can find us here: despite all its dents and blemishes, this vintage gem has plenty of charm and elegance left in it. Johannes Hermes from projects and thematic areas within the new Bosch https://connect.bosch.com/communities/community/ the Corporate Sector for Information Processing in Feuerbach visited Havana some time ago. Who knows, maybe this Bosch Connect Community Connect Community. We look forward to your visit. stiftung

picturesque old-timer with its Bosch battery is still cruising the streets of the Cuban capital today. Photo: JH | Illustration: C3 Visual Lab