In her dissertation Technology Assessment of Dual-Use ICTs – How to Assess Diffusion, Governance and Design, Dr. Thea Riebe examines dual-use information and communication technologies and develops methods to assess their diffusion, governance and design. 

The dissertation Towards a Peaceful Development of Cyberspace – Challenges and Technical Measures for the De-escalation of State-led Cyberconflicts and Arms Control of Cyberweapons by Dr. Thomas Reinhold examines how de-escalation of state-led conflicts and arms control of cyber weapons can be achieved by adopting existing technical measures from other areas of computing.

With the Weizenbaum Study Prize, the FIfF aims to honour outstanding achievements by young scientists in this field. Students and academics in the qualification phase are to be encouraged to take a well-founded and differentiated approach to questions in the field of computer science and society. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2010. Since then, FIfF has honoured works on anonymity on the Internet, online searches, the use of mobile IT systems in the classroom, video surveillance, information power on the Internet, criminal prognostics and many other topics.

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